Rebuilding Manus with Manus: What changed, what broke, and how we work now

Manus co-founder and CPO Tao Zhang describes how the company reorganized engineering, product and marketing around agents, arguing that AI only helped once loops closed, agents got full system context (via an internal tool called Mono), and autonomy was bounded by checkable success criteria. He reports that roughly half of PMs now ship features themselves and that engineering speed shifted the bottleneck to product decisions, while acknowledging fragmented attention, scattered information and unresolved sharing permissions.