Manus is good but their token costs calculations are obscure, and there isn't much room available for optimizations besides prompt length and other basic items. I ended up re-creating the initial sourcing pipeline in OpenClaw. New system runs entirely in OpenClaw using Sonnet 4-6 for Enrichment and Analysis, but using lower tier models for basic and routine tasks and has dramatically reduced costs
New features:
- Sourcing (moved from Manus to OpenClaw. initial pass that gathers the first set of leads using ICP criteria)
- Ingest (discards non qualified leads)
- Enrich (deep pass that enriches qualified leads and verifies emails. Scores quality for instantly enrollment)
- Campaign enrollment (qualified leads get assigned to an Instantly campaign)
- Reply (alerts me via WhatsApp whenever there is a reply)
- Metrics (pulled from Instantly via API)
- Insights (new tab that collects performance such as click rates and things that could be useful for improvements)
- Analyst agent (reviews metrics and insights. Proposes updated to copy, campaigns, delivery, etc to increase conversion)
- Guardian agent (maintains health of the system. Flags issues and warnings)
- Self- Healing agent (reviews flags from guardian, metrics and runs Sonnet for improvements. Self corrects if it finds an issue during any of the pipeline runs)
Next steps:
- Increase volume. Currently pulling about 25 leads every other day for testing. Will increase and run agent daily