Comparison
Manage Agency vs Manage Leads
Manage Leads pioneered the “AI agent as a SaaS” pattern — MCP, a skills index, usage-axis pricing. We agree on all three. Where we diverge: the agent is a feature, the product is the operating cockpit your clients log into.
Pick Manage Agency if…
- — Your clients should log in. You bill for outcomes, not just send emails.
- — You run a team — multi-seat with role-based access matters.
- — Contracts, invoices, deliverables, and onboarding belong in the same workspace as the agent.
- — Compliance posture (audit trail, RLS, signed URLs) is on your acquisition checklist.
Stay on Manage Leads if…
- — You're a solo operator, no team, no client-facing workspace needed.
- — You only need the AI agent — the rest of the agency operating system isn't a fit.
- — Inbound agent email (AI replies on your behalf) is your priority feature today.
- — You're primarily Google-stack and don't need Slack / Stripe / Outlook depth.
Feature by feature
Native MCP transport (Claude / Cursor / n8n)
Public capabilities / skills index JSON
Usage-axis credits pricing
Capabilities catalogue grouped by category
Real client-facing portal (clients log in)
Manage Leads' Clients tab is CRM-shaped, not portal-shaped.
Multi-seat team ops with roles
Manage Leads is solo-first.
Per-user audit trail of every action
Stripe Connect (payment links go to your account)
Per-org credit pricing overrides
Per-token credit budgets (caps a leaked token)
Branded client portal + custom domain
Contracts: send + lightweight e-sign + audit
Onboarding workflows with client-side completion
Deliverable lifecycle (draft → review → approved)
Cross-client delivery queue (review, revision, due)
Real invoicing (line items, PDF, email, reconcile)
Slack-native ops (overdue invoices, payout failures)
Two-way email-to-thread sync
Annotated comments on images + PDFs
Time tracking per client
AI agent / inbound mailbox
We expose 20+ MCP write verbs; agent email is on the roadmap.
CRM pipeline + lead → client conversion
RLS-audited tables + private buckets + signed URLs
Agents are features. The product is what the team and the client use every day.
Both products speak MCP. Only one of them gives your clients a portal to log into. Mint a token, run it from Claude Desktop, and the same verbs power your dashboard.