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What is Perplexity Computer?

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Greg Isenberg takes Perplexity Computer for a real-time test drive to explore how entrepreneurs can leverage AI agents for productivity and revenue generation. Through live demonstrations, he showcases five practical use cases—from automated cold outreach to competitive intelligence monitoring—revealing how the $200/month tool can automate tasks that typically require dedicated team members.

Key takeaways
  • Warm outbound at scale can be fully automated by researching prospects, finding decision-makers, drafting personalized emails, and sending them through connected email—then setting up follow-up sequences at days 3 and 7 for non-responders.
  • Competitive intelligence monitoring can run automatically every morning at 8 a.m., checking competitor websites for pricing changes, feature announcements, and social mentions, then delivering a summary via email or push notification.
  • Batch research across parallel tasks allows founders to research 50 VCs simultaneously and export structured data into spreadsheets, pulling fund sizes, partner names, recent investments, and social activity without manual compilation.
  • The sub-agent architecture (combining skills, tools, and agents within a single interface) eliminates the need to juggle multiple cloud instances or platforms, making complex workflows feel seamless and unified.
  • Additional high-value use cases include SEO strategy theft, pitch deck generation from videos, weekly financial audits, candidate sourcing, and SaaS pricing reverse-engineering—all executable through natural language prompts.
  • The main limitation is delivery method—currently reports only arrive via in-app push notifications rather than email or iMessage, reducing real-world convenience compared to alternatives like Lindy AI and Manis.

Recommendations (4)

Perplexity Computer

"Safe to say this out this exceeded my expectations. I don't know about you, but this is this is really cool. Something I'm going to be playing more with."

Greg Isenberg · ▶ 36:08

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"What I like about the Lindy AI assistant, and I'm going to do a video, I think just completely on that, is you can text it out using iMessage."

Greg Isenberg · ▶ 13:31

Manus
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"This reminds me a lot like of Manis. Manis does a really good job at that. And I actually think Manis is just like underrated as a platform. I really need to go back in there and do another episode..."

Greg Isenberg · ▶ 20:01

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"I'm actually going to share this live on YouTube and Spotify on the Startup Ideas podcast."

Greg Isenberg · ▶ 1:09

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