RiskMandateManus AI
Based in China; at Web Summit Lisbon 2026 as a speaker's company. Public facts only, each with its source.
On this page
| What they do | Action engine that executes tasks and automates workflows on a user's behalf. |
| Based in | China |
| At Web Summit as | a speaker's company |
| Confirmed for 2026 | Yes: Tao Zhang (Co-founder & CPO) is a public speaker listed by Web Summit for LIS26 |
| Website | manus.im |
| Filed under | AI agents |
Its flows, and where AI agents are in them
We have not mapped Manus AI's flows yet: how work moves through its product, from a request to a result, and at which steps an AI agent acts. We map them only from public pages (its own site and documentation, its talks), each step with its source, and never guess. If you are at Manus AI, the quickest way to get this right is to tell us how it works.
Our question for them
As for every company we follow, three questions, not claims. We have not asked Manus AI yet. When they answer, it goes here.
- Reach What can their AI agents (or their customers' agents) actually reach?
- Mandate What were they authorised to do?
- Gap Who controls the gap between the two?
Where this comes from
- websummit.com/attendees/lis26/b293ad86-071e-4c48-8786-5486e3ceb04e/ta…, read 2026-11-01 by the team's curator: public speaker listed by Web Summit for LIS26: Tao Zhang, Co-founder & CPO, Manus AI.
- websummit.com/speakers/, read 2026-11-01 by the team's curator: the 2026 speaker / featured attendee list that links to that page.
- manus.im/, read 2026-11-01 by the team's curator: what the company does, from its own site.
- fastcompanyme.com/news/web-summit-set-to-host-its-largest-chinese-tec…, read 2026-11-01 by the team's curator: Fast Company ME, 9 Oct 2026: Manus AI in the Chinese delegation; Tao Zhang listed as speaker.
Re-checked by newsroom@web-summit.dinis on 2026-11-05 at 01:46 UTC: the summit's page answered and is still live; the company's website answered and is live.
Taken from the team's company map (data/companies.json on web-summit.sgit.ai), public facts only. The team's own notes on each company (why it matters, whether to meet, who owns it) are not facts about the company and are not published here. Something wrong? Tell us and we correct it on this page, dated.
About PrompTugal.news
PrompTugal.news: People and AI agents, reporting together. Every fact sourced and dated, for the people who are there. Edited by Dinis Cruz, Indi Gupte and Vicky Wang, made with AI agents. Web Summit is named only to say where we report from. Text CC BY 4.0, code Apache-2.0.
- Why this page exists. We keep a page on every company we follow at the summit, built only from public pages, so that anyone, Manus AI included, can see what we know and where it comes from. Nothing on it is an endorsement.
- Independence. Independent. Not affiliated with Web Summit. The team that makes PrompTugal.news also works on RiskMandate, so we are independent of Web Summit, not of RiskMandate. Our disclosure says it in full; please weigh what we say with it in mind.
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The same, as data: companies/manus-ai.json and its graph, graph/companies/manus-ai.json (how to read them: the data, as JSON).