You'd switch inventory systems, but setting one up takes months
Your products are in a spreadsheet, your suppliers in an inbox and your prices on a PDF. Every system asks you to clean all that up first. With Manifold, your agent does the setup from what you already have, asking before every change, and then keeps an eye on the business for you.
You know this if…
- “We have no clean data” is the reason you haven't moved.
- The last system's setup took a consultant and three months.
- Product data lives in four spreadsheets, and none of them agree.
- Every morning starts with someone checking what's low, what's late and what's stuck.
Why it happens
Setup is a lot of small, careful decisions: which column is the SKU, which supplier a product comes from, which site holds what. Systems leave all of it to a person filling in forms.
An agent is good at exactly that work, but only if the system lets it act safely: as you, with your permissions, asking before it changes anything, and with every change on the record.
How Manifold handles it
Manifold speaks MCP, so Claude, ChatGPT or any MCP client can work in it as you: with your roles, through the same operations your screens use, and on the same record.
Connect it as you
Add Manifold as a connector in Claude or ChatGPT, or to any MCP client, and sign in. The agent acts as you, in the business you choose, with exactly your roles.
Hand it what you have
A spreadsheet, a supplier's price list, your Shopify store or your Cin7 account. With a skill, it sets up products, suppliers and locations step by step, asking before each change.
Every change on the record
What it creates shows in each product's history under your name, because it acts as you.
Ask it each morning
What's low, which orders are stuck, which purchase orders are late. It reads the same figures your screens do, and raises the purchase order when you say so.
What you can check
Your permissions, no more
An agent holds the roles of the person it acts for. Destructive actions are separate tools your client asks you to approve.
Connect an agent →On the record
Every change an agent makes is on the same trail as yours, under your name, because it acts as you.
Never a password
Sign-in happens in your browser. The agent never sees a credential, and you can disconnect it at once.
Skills for the big jobs
Ready-made skills for setting up from scratch, from spreadsheets, from Shopify and from Cin7.
Agent skills →Questions people ask
- Which agents work?
- Claude and ChatGPT through their connectors, and any client that speaks MCP over HTTP with OAuth, such as Claude Code and Cursor.
- Can it change things without asking?
- It can only do what you can, and the skills ask before every change. Destructive actions are separate tools your client asks you to approve.
- Does it keep watch on its own?
- It answers when asked. Ask it each morning, or schedule the question in your agent, and it reads stock that needs attention, stuck orders, slow movers and late purchase orders.
- Is there an agent inside Manifold?
- One that needs no outside client is built and coming. Today you bring your own: Claude, ChatGPT or any MCP client.
- Do I have to switch everything over at once?
- No. Every new Manifold business starts read-only: orders come in and your team works in Manifold in full, but nothing goes out to your channels or customers until an owner goes live.
See it on your own products.
Nothing changes until you say so.
Connect your Shopify store or bring a spreadsheet, and your own products, stock and orders are in Manifold the same day. Every new business starts read-only: your team can work in it in full while nothing goes out — no stock to your store, no email to customers — until an owner goes live. Free for 60 days.
Other problems we fix
Only one person knows where everything is
When stock lives in one person's head: every SKU's stock by location and every movement recorded with its document and who did it, searchable by anyone.
Knowing what to reorder, and when
Stop reordering from memory: see which SKUs are short against open orders and incoming stock, raise the purchase order, and know your supplier's real lead time.
You keep a separate stock count for Shopify and for Amazon
Connect Shopify and Amazon and both sell from one stock count. An order on either takes the stock off both, and shipments are confirmed back.