Quick Brief
- The Deal: Similarweb (NYSE: SMWB) and Manus deployed a commercial integration granting Manus AI agents access to Similarweb’s digital intelligence platform, including web traffic, SEO, and ecommerce data.
- The Impact: Marketing teams can now delegate competitive analysis and campaign planning to AI agents backed by trusted market data rather than speculation.
- The Context: Manus crossed $100 million in annual recurring revenue in eight months, claiming the fastest startup-to-$100M trajectory globally.
- Availability: Live today via the Similarweb MCP Server using Model Context Protocol.
Similarweb and Manus announced a strategic collaboration on January 13, 2026, enabling Manus AI agents to access Similarweb’s comprehensive digital intelligence data on web traffic and market engagement. The integration addresses a critical challenge in autonomous AI systems: reducing hallucinations by grounding agent outputs in verified market intelligence rather than speculative analysis.
What’s New
The Similarweb integration, available immediately, allows Manus customers to assign AI agents tasks involving marketing strategy development and competitive positioning assessments. Manus AI users gain access to global web analytics including monthly visits, unique visitors, and digital marketing channel performance across the Similarweb platform.
Joint customers receive expanded datasets featuring detailed geographic segmentation, web traffic breakdowns, SEO metrics, ecommerce marketplace data, app analytics, search insights, and GenAI brand visibility tracking. The integration utilizes the Similarweb MCP Server through Model Context Protocol to deliver data in formats optimized for AI agent consumption.
Similarweb joins Stripe (payment processing) and Microsoft (Microsoft 365 access) as among the first major technology integrations Manus has deployed for its autonomous agent platform.
Why It Matters
Manus achieved a significant milestone by surpassing $100 million in annual recurring revenue just eight months after launching paid subscriptions in March 2025, positioning itself as the fastest startup to reach this threshold globally. The company’s total revenue run rate exceeded $125 million when including usage-based revenue, with operations processing 147 trillion tokens and launching over 80 million virtual instances.
“As AI agents take on decision critical work like market analysis and growth planning, the quality and authority of the underlying data becomes essential,” said Henry Yang, co-founder and CMO of Manus. “Similarweb provides a trusted, comprehensive view of digital markets that helps ground our agents’ outputs in reality, not speculation.“
The partnership addresses a fundamental limitation in generative AI: the tendency to produce confident but factually incorrect outputs when lacking authoritative data sources. By integrating verified market intelligence, the collaboration enables AI agents to deliver strategic insights with measurable reliability.
Technical Integration
| Component | Specification |
|---|---|
| Protocol | Model Context Protocol (MCP) via Similarweb MCP Server |
| Data Access | Visits, unique visitors, marketing channels, SEO, ecommerce, apps, search |
| Segmentation | Geographic breakdowns, detailed traffic segmentation |
| Agent Type | General autonomous agents (not task-specific) |
| Availability | Live as of January 13, 2026 |
| Scale | 147 trillion tokens processed, 80M+ instances launched |
Strategic Positioning
Or Offer, CEO of Similarweb, emphasized the distinction between Manus’s approach and limited-function AI agents: “Manus has been a pioneer in creating general AI agents, as opposed to those limited to performing a given task or set of tasks”. The partnership reflects broader industry movement toward outcome-driven human-AI collaboration rather than conversational interfaces.
Om Sht, VP of Data as a Service and AI at Similarweb, framed the collaboration in infrastructure terms: “Data serves as the fuel, AI acts as the engine, and agents are the aircraft. Manus has constructed an impressive, high-performance jet, and we can enhance its capabilities and reliability with the appropriate data”.
Manus secured $75 million in funding led by Benchmark before its March 2025 launch and currently employs 105 people across Singapore, Tokyo, and San Francisco, with a Paris office planned. Similarweb has simultaneously invested in proprietary AI initiatives including purpose-built agents for sales prospecting and content marketing, positioning the company to serve both integration partners and direct customers in the autonomous agent market.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
What does the Manus-Similarweb partnership enable?
Manus AI agents can now access Similarweb’s digital intelligence data including web traffic, SEO metrics, ecommerce analytics, and marketing channel performance to execute data-driven marketing analysis and competitive research.
How fast did Manus reach $100M in annual recurring revenue?
Manus crossed $100 million ARR in eight months after launching paid subscriptions in March 2025, claiming the title of fastest startup globally to achieve this milestone.
How does Similarweb data reduce AI hallucinations?
The integration grounds AI agent outputs in verified market intelligence rather than speculative analysis, ensuring strategic recommendations derive from trusted digital market data instead of potentially fabricated information.
What technology powers the Manus-Similarweb integration?
The integration uses the Similarweb MCP Server with Model Context Protocol (MCP) to format comprehensive digital intelligence data in AI-optimized formats for autonomous agent consumption.
