Closest Manus alternative when the job must end in actual files?
A user wants an agent workflow that ends in real deliverables: competitor research with sources, an editable deck, and a simple landing page, and asks which tool comes closest to Manus for the whole chain. No single tool nails it yet, because file quality is where most agents quietly cut corners. A workable pattern is to use one agent for research with sources inline, then a second pass that only builds the deliverables, and always demand the editable source file rather than a PDF.