Perplexity Computer can identify prospects, find specific contacts (like partnership managers instead of CEOs), research their company's news and personal social media, and draft unique, hyper-personalized emails, automating a complex sales development workflow.
A powerful, proactive strategy is to task an AI agent to set up a recurring weekly monitor on competitor podcasts or newsletters. The moment a new brand starts advertising, the agent provides a notification with partnership contacts, allowing for outreach precisely when that brand's budget is active and allocated.
An AI agent can act as an on-demand financial analyst. Given a stock ticker like SHOP, it can pull the latest financials, compare margins against competitors, analyze analyst sentiment, and compile a comprehensive investment memo into a polished PDF, complete with charts and bull/bear cases.
An AI agent can be configured to run persistent, daily checks on competitors' websites for pricing changes, new features, and blog posts. It can also monitor social media for mentions and deliver a summary via push notification or email only when changes occur, creating a low-noise, automated intelligence feed.
Instead of manually researching venture capital firms for fundraising, an AI agent can investigate dozens of targets simultaneously. It pulls data on fund size, relevant partners, investment theses, and recent social media activity, then organizes everything into a ready-to-use spreadsheet, saving weeks of analyst work.
A simple meta-question like "Is there something I'm not asking you?" can unlock an AI agent's more advanced, proactive capabilities. In the podcast, this prompt revealed superior strategies like monitoring competitor sponsors and setting up automated follow-up sequences, which were more valuable than the original request.