Taste / Memory / Action
The taste layer for branded AI.
Put your point of view, customer context, and useful memory above whichever model fits.
A durable layer for branded AI concierge experiences.
01 / The premise
Make what you know portable.
Valuable editorial, inventory, and customer context should not disappear into a generic answer. The Manual Company gives brands the infrastructure to preserve their curation, remember what matters, and turn it into a concierge people can act on.
It is an API and MCP layer above frontier models, built to keep the brand relationship and the workflow in your hands.
See what the layer carries02 / The layer in practice
From context to a confident next step.
The experience is designed around what people actually need: a trusted place, a reason it fits, and a useful action after the answer.
- 01
- TasteBring your editorial authority and curated graph into the experience.
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- MemoryCarry saved work, preferences, and trip context across the journey.
- 03
- ActionMove from recommendation to a plan, a save, or the next useful step.
03 / Urban Manual
Every place, told properly.
Urban Manual is the first consumer showcase of the layer in travel. People discover human-curated places, ask Concierge for taste-aware plans, save places into notebooks, build trips, and carry that state across iOS and web.
A working expression of taste, memory, provenance, and action.
Explore the showcase04 / One layer, every surface
Keep the relationship. Extend the reach.
Start with the experience your brand owns. Then make the same context useful wherever your audience is already asking for help.
01 / First-party
Your experience
Give your customers a concierge that reflects your standards, inventory, and voice.
02 / API
Your infrastructure
Access the curated graph, durable memory, provenance, and actions without rebuilding the stack.
03 / MCP
Where questions start
Bring your context into ChatGPT and sync useful answers and actions back to the product.
05 / For brands with a point of view
Your authority is the advantage.
The right fit is an organization with valuable curation or customer context that wants to make it durable, personal, and useful.
Lifestyle publishers
Turn editorial authority and a curated database into a durable member experience.
Hotels and hospitality groups
Extend the guest relationship with a branded concierge grounded in local context.
Travel advisors
Carry your judgment into reusable client context, planning, and shareable workflows.
06 / Start with the point of view
Make it useful.
Explore how a durable taste-and-memory layer could carry your brand into the next way people ask, decide, and act.