Manus turns an expert interview into two post drafts

Billy Howell’s Rundown guide documents an executed Manus content-workspace test. The project interviews the user about incidents from recent work, extracts reusable stories and preserves phrases from the dictation rather than starting with a polished content pitch.

Two concrete stories emerged: a simple one-on-one workflow that attracted more interest than flashier topics, and an abandoned Microsoft Copilot recording in which basic Excel formulas and formatting had failed. Manus captured the second incident in an idea card, including its intended audience and the need for a current retest before making present-day product claims.

The agent generated a voice and expertise profile, content pillars, supporting files and two pilot LinkedIn posts without a separate drafting request. The first run also exposed a tool-selection problem: Manus started using an enabled Notion connector. The tester stopped it and corrected the destination so the workspace stayed inside the intended project.

Human review focuses on wording, missing context and claims that exceed the evidence. The guide recommends approving the revised version before posting; it does not establish that these pilot posts were published or measured for engagement.

The useful workflow combines incident interviewing with durable idea cards and an explicit destination boundary. The article’s displayed prompts include adapted examples, so the prompt here is a suggested version rather than a claim to reproduce the exact original conversation.

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Suggested prompt (written by Agents In Use, not the author's)

Source: Blog · Billy Howell, The Rundown University