Manus Academy Launch
Over the past year, we have seen an increasing number of professionals integrate AI into their daily work. They are curious, proactive, and willing to experiment. However, the real challenge is navigating how to use AI in a way that works for them and their business.
In high-intensity fields like VC, PE, corporate finance, business analytics, and data science, time is the scarcest resource. Although many professionals already use AI tools, the trial-and-error cost remains high — from prompt engineering, to configuring complex tasks, to verifying whether the output is trustworthy.
AI is here in the workplace and businesses, but most people are still not using it to its full potential. Millions of workers use AI every day, yet few have been taught how to apply AI in real tasks. Most are stuck on the basics. At Manus, we realise the real gap is not awareness — it is capability.
What professionals need is not more tools, but a faster path. A way for AI to not only answer questions, but to actually do and push work toward completion.
AI for All: Making AI Capability Accessible To Everyone
That is why we are launching Manus Academy (Early Bird) — an open-source e-learning platform that teaches anyone, in any role, how to use AI for real workflows, not just chatbot Q&A.
Our mission is to make AI capability accessible to everyone, not just technical teams.
People want to use AI to actually get work done: pull information together, build analyses, automate tasks. But they do not have access to practical training to show them how.
And to give early learners a head start, the first 500 people who complete a course will receive 8000 Manus credits.
Why We Built the Academy
AI is becoming a core part of modern work, but access to practical AI education is still uneven.
Many people want to bring AI into their workflows, yet they face the same obstacles:
•Repetitive manual tasks that AI could realistically handle
•No clear examples of how to automate full workflows end-to-end
•Uncertainty about what AI can safely and successfully execute as relates to real professional responsibilities
We built the Manus Academy to make practical AI capability accessible to everyone, regardless of role, background, or technical experience.
This is the foundation of our mission: AI for all. AI as a tool for real work. AI that extends human capability.
Introducing Manus Academy: A Faster Path to Real AI Productivity
This insight led us to create the Manus Academy, where new sign-ups can get free credits upon course completion, early access to our most impactful use cases, and the opportunity to connect with fellow builders in the Build Club community.
The Academy is not about teaching AI. Its purpose is simple: Help professionals who already want to use AI get results with far less time and far less trial and error.
The Manus Academy includes:
•30+ hours of structured learning content
•20+ real use cases from Manus users worldwide
•Designed for PE, VC, corporate finance, business analysis, data science, and all general knowledge workers
•Every module is co-designed with and endorsed by industry practitioners and Build Club instructors
These are not traditional AI tutorials — they are tested, proven agentic use cases, including:
•How to generate automated investment research packs
•How to use Manus for due diligence, data analysis, and document structuring
•How to produce memos, structured content, and multi-step outputs
•How to let AI handle end-to-end task chains with less manual intervention
•How to integrate Manus into existing work rhythms instantly
Professionals can skip the friction of exploration and immediately adopt patterns that help AI become a true contributor to their workflow.
The Build Club Syllabus and Learning Experience
What Early Bird Includes
The Academy is structured around the workflows that create real value in the workplace.
1. Build-Along Video Modules
Short videos that demonstrate exactly how to apply Manus to tasks that normally take hours: organizing files, assembling research packs, memos, or transforming raw information into usable output.
2. A Library of Real Use Cases
20+ workflows that go beyond chatbot Q&A, including:
•automated investment research
•due diligence assistants that assemble multi-source documents
•spreadsheet extraction + analysis pipelines
•long-form writing that follows structural rules
•multi-step task chains across web pages, documents, and emails
These are workflows already used by deal teams, operators, analysts, and small business owners.
3. Hackathons and community
A platform for showcasing your Manus projects, sharing wins, and improving your Manus skills with the support of a learning community.
4. Available in English, Japanese, and Portuguese
More languages are coming as the community grows.
Certifications (More Coming)
Credentialed learning paths that reflect practical capability, not theoretical understanding. While having general level certifications in place, we have also designed courses to certify domain users in product management, business analysis, and finance. We will be releasing more certifications soon.
What Professionals Are Already Doing with Manus
The Academy reflects real use cases already emerging inside the Manus community:
A Singapore Florist Handling Digital Tasks for the First Time
In Singapore, a local florist used Manus to build her online storefront, create product descriptions, manage inventory, and produce marketing materials—bringing digital capability to her small business for the first time. Check out the automation tool here and see how Manus helped her in automation!
A Student in Japan Learning Programming Through Practical Projects
A young student and his father use Manus to break down code, understand logic, and build small applications together. Manus becomes a second pair of hands for learning by doing. Check out the story here!
SXSW Sydney: A Full Event Navigator Built in 15 Minutes
Using Manus, Build Club founder Annie built a complete festival navigation tool — including LinkedIn speaker scraping — in minutes. The system handled high traffic and was distributed by the official SXSW Sydney team to the full attendee list (90,000+ attendees).
All these moments reflect one belief: AI should not be reserved for those with technical expertise. It should empower anyone with goals, curiosity, and ambition.
Shortening the Distance Between Intention and Action
At Manus, our goal is to give everyone a personal AI agent that can truly complete tasks.
Launching the Manus Academy is a meaningful step toward that vision. We believe that when professionals, small business owners, students, and creators can integrate AI into their workflows with lower friction, the boundaries of productivity will expand for everyone.
Manus AI for All, it is not just a message. It is the future we are building.
The Build Club Connection
To deliver the program, Manus partnered with Build Club, the Australian startup backed by Blackbird and Airtree that has quickly become a go-to for vendor-branded academies. Build Club platform adds gamification, certifications, and project banks to keep learners engaged well beyond one-off training.
Enterprises do not need another playlist of videos. They need hands-on tracks co-designed with industry experts, where people walk away with outputs they can actually use in their jobs. That is what this collaboration makes possible. — Annie Liao, founder of Build Club
The Literacy Arms Race
With investors pressing for productivity gains, AI adoption has become a boardroom issue. Training a handful of AI champions is not enough; enterprises now need literacy at scale, across deal teams, finance functions, and data desks.
A Foundation for Real Workplace Capability
The future of work will not be defined by who can ask better questions — but by who can use AI to produce finished, reliable output.
The Manus Academy provides:
•structured paths for practical skill-building
•role-specific workflows tied to real work-related responsibilities
•open access for anyone, regardless of background
•a community focused on execution, not just inspiration
•free credits for early completions
It is a system for learning how to use AI to get work done.
Get Started
Early Bird access is now available. If you want to reduce manual work, increase your output, or learn how to integrate AI into your daily tasks with reliability, the Academy is ready.
•Sign up here: academy.manus.im
•First 500 completions receive 8000 Manus credits
•Join the Slack learning community and discuss with others here!
•Available in English, Japanese, Portuguese
About Manus
Manus builds an action engine for enterprises — AI that does not just answer questions but executes tasks across real workflows, moving work from draft to done with human review in the loop.
About Build Club
Build Club is an AI adoption platform powering academies and enterprise accelerators on a gamified learning stack. Based in Australia and the U.S., it is backed by Airtree and Blackbird Ventures. Build Club is also one of the largest AI learning communities in the world (50+ cities) with the vision to democratize access to AI education, and recently launched Solaris, an AI adoption platform helping companies operationalize their AI strategy.