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Today we're going to take Perplexity Computer for a spin. Now, I haven't tried it, so together we're going to basically look at how can we use this, how can entrepreneurs use this to make money and be more productive. We're actually going to ask it to tell us what are the top use cases to use and we're going to test it out and see if it's any good. You've probably seen Perplexity Computer and you might have bookmarked it, but today we're actually going to see if it's super valuable. So let's just get right into it. I'm going to just say, hey, I want to know the five best use cases non obvious for founders who want to make money and be more productive using Perplexity Computer. Like what are the five prompts and use cases I need to be aware of that are super mind blowing? I'm actually going to share this live on YouTube and Spotify on the Startup Ideas podcast. So we are going to test it. This is on Perplexity Computer. As of now, you need to be on the max plan to to get it going. That's $200 a month. They say it's coming to pro and maybe Fleet free pens. I'm not sure. I'm not affiliated with Perplexity by any stretch and this is the first time I'm using this. So just noticing for the first time you basically have these tasks on the left hand side and on the right hand side is what's happening with the different agents. So it says let me load up the relevant skills to give you the best possible answer here. Let me read the key reference files to make sure I'm giving you the most accurate picture of what a computer can do. And it's running all these tasks in parallel, which is pretty cool. You don't need to open up a bunch of different cloud code instances. It's right there running in parallel. So now it says good. I now have a deep understanding of the full capability set. Since you're sharing this on the Startup Ideas podcast, let me craft five generally non obvious founder specific use cases that will map make your audience jaws drop. All right, let's see if Perplexity Computer can drop the sauce. Here are five non obvious use cases that surprise should surprise your audience. These are built for founders who want to move faster and make more money. Warm outbound at scale. So personalized prospect research and outreach in one shot. So let's go ahead and try this where actually you can, I guess you can press copy right over here. And I guess you want to start a task. Here's a list of 30 companies I want to sell to. For each one, find the founder CEO on LinkedIn, research their company's recent news, funding and pain points and then draft a hyper personalized cold email referencing something specific about them. Send each email via my connected Gmail. So we're going to go ahead and do that. So that's actually pretty cool. You have your tasks over here. You can go back and forth. I think that's pretty clean. Perplexity has always done a good job at doing pretty clean. Ui, ux, sip of cold brew. Let's get keep it going. All right. I'll tackle this step by step. I need a few things to make this effective again. Load running the tasks in parallel. I see a couple of things I need to address before we can execute on this. Gmail is not connected yet. I need to get this set up so I can send emails on your behalf. I need some key details from you to make these emails actually convert. So this is cool. I mean connecting your email, you know, there's definitely obviously some risk associated with that, but I'm going to go ahead and do that. So I've gone ahead and connected it. So it's super cool that you can just do that pretty easily. Gmail is connected. I'm ready to roll. As soon as you share the list of 30 companies, paste them in your reply what you're selling, your SaaS product, podcast sponsorships, tone and CTA preferences. Once I have those details, I'll research all 30 companies in parallel. I'll find the right person at each and draft hyper personalized emails and send them through your Gmail. So you know, I'm going to say I, I run the startup ideas podcast. This is for podcast sponsorships. I want you to research who advertises on TVPN and then I and I'll say take the top, let's just say five companies and then you now know I'm selling POD sponsorships and Tone and cta. Well, Tone, I want to be friend to friend, clear, calm and cta. Do you want to set up a call with my team? Let's go ahead and do that and see, you know, if it's able to find who advertises on tvpn. So it says I need to find the first company to advertise on tvpn. So it actually doesn't know what. Does it know what TVPN is? Oh, it does. So it first says the Bitcoin Podcast Network. It's not called that. I think it's called Technology Brothers Podcast Network. But it still finds the right one. Over here, you can see, because you can see that it's finding a bunch of like TVPN signs with ca. That's the right tvpn. So it finds them. So it had a little trip up over there and then it just says it finds their five. Yeah, ramp plaid figma. And it's researching all five in parallel. Recent news, pain points, and any specific I can reference an email. So this is really interesting, right? Because I don't know about you, but I actually don't do any cold email really, unless it's to a cold DM of someone I look up to and I think is really interesting and cool. I'll just cold DM them. But for like closing leads, finding leads, stuff like that, I don't do cold DMs. My approach is really building audiences and communities and having people reach out to me. So this is cool that I can do this. But what I've had issues with in terms of cold DMs in the past is it sounds lame, it doesn't sound like me. It's a lot of work to actually find the people. And let's just see if this is any good. So it says, excellent research. Let me find the right contact emails and draft the emails. Let me also look up who handles sponsorship and partnerships at these companies. Since emailing the CEO directly about a podcast sponsorship isn't always the best path. This is what I'm talking about. This is. This is really cool. And because like, obviously Dylan Field, the founder of figma, isn't going to open a cold dm, probably from, from my email. But like the podcast sponsorship people might, you know. So it says good, I have the send underscore email tool ready. So what's really cool is Perplexity Computer. You're spinning up a computer. It's like a virtual computer. It has skills, it has tools, and it can actually go and do things. So let's see if this is any good. Okay. So I hear the five personalized emails, each referencing specific details from my research. So it's actually crazy. So it found Toby, the founder of Shopify's email. That's really cool. Like that in itself is really, really, really crazy. Right? So good on them for finding that. But we did talk about how we shouldn't. Let me check if these CEOs are reachable. Oh, interesting. So it's actually, I wouldn't send it to CEOs personally. So I guess that's something that, you know, we can adjust. But actually, I mean, I would probably send it to the CEOs and I would send it to the podcast people. So let's just read the Toby email. Hi, Toby. Been watching Shopify's run lately. 11.6 billion in revenue. I think it's more than that. I think maybe not actually. 30% growth. And the AI catalog tools are generally impressive. The MRI thing you did with Claude was wild. So I don't know if you saw, you saw that he, he, he did like, I think he analyzed like an MRI result and built a tool around it and it was wild. So it went and checked his X account and what he's been posting. I run the Startup Ideas podcast. Our audience is founders and builders actively launching companies, many of them choosing their commerce stack. Right now we get about X downloads per episode and our listeners skew heavily towards early stage founders who are making infrastructure decisions. I noticed Shopify is already sponsoring tvpn, which makes a lot of sense or shows itself similar demo, but a tighter focus on people who are literally in the process starting companies. Feels like a natural pit. This is awesome. And then there's another one to ramp and there's another one to plaid. And they have all these people's email addresses. I don't know how they're getting them, but assuming those are real email addresses, that's pretty, pretty cool. I'm going to say so. And by the way, and if I press send email, it would just send the email it's got connected to my email to my email address and go ahead and do that. But what I'm going to do, I'm going to do one more thing and then we're going to get to the next use case. I'm just curious if it can do this. So I'm going to say CEOs emails are impressive, but realistically, these are busy people. Let's try to get in front of the person in charge of podcast creator partnerships. Doesn't that make more sense? And then I'm going to just give it a bonus question. I'm going to say, by the way, is there something I'm not asking you here that could make me more money in this use case? Just gonna see what it says. Sometimes, you know, we're trying to push it to the limit. This is where we're reviewing per proxy computer. So let's, let's go in and see. You're absolutely right. CEOs aren't reviewing sponsorship pitches. The person who Actually signs podcast deals usually head of brand marketing partnerships and it goes and says let's go what you know, let's go find those people. So it's gonna go ahead and find them. It also says what you're not asking but should be outreach to companies that sponsor TBVN's competitors too. Right. So if a company sponsors TVPN, they also sponsor my first million all in acquired. Right. Set up a recurring monitor. I can check TVPN all in and other tech podcasts weekly for new sponsors. The moment a new brand starts advertising on competitors brand, you get a notification with their partnership contact. So you're reaching out while their podcast budget is hot. That is so smart and so cool that you can set it up. That's like, you know one of the reasons I think people like OpenClaw and Cowork now has some scheduled tasks is you can yeah schedule a task. So it's very cool that you can spin up a Plexi computer and have these recurring monitors and go and do that and do things for you in the cloud. Follow up sequences one email converts at maybe 10, 5 to 10%. Maybe I can. Or I can schedule follow ups three and seven days later with new angles. If they don't reply, absolutely crazy. Want me to do any of those after we get these five out the door? Duh. Okay. So let's just see Good findings now. I have solid leads on the compile what what I found. So it's gone ahead and found them. It's found. Wow. It's found their email addresses. It's hey George, caught your 20 VC. This is the VP of growth of ramp the caught your 20 VC episode. The bit about finding alpha and channels. No one else is trying to really resonate no one else is trying really resonated direct mail becoming one of Rant's biggest channels. Such a good example of that. Like these emails are amazing and they're so personalized. We're just going to. I am impressed here. I'm going to. I'm going to say I'm just going to copy this. What you're asking not should be yes, go do those things. And after that I promise we will get to the new use case. But I will say this is, this is better than I expected. A lot cleaner. I like the ui. I like that you can spin out multiple tasks at the same time. It is $200 a month. So is that expensive or is that cheap? You know, depend if you're. I guess if you're using it like this, like obviously this would pay for itself in this, in this actual use case it's going and researching sponsors across competing prods. It's setting up weekly monitor that checks those pods for new sponsors and sends you a notification. 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. So I don't know if you can do that here. I don't think so. But I do think that like one of the, one of the cool things about OpenClaw has been that you can use imessage, you can use Telegram, you can use Discord. So you know, this is a nice ui but I do like the idea that like I can just text it on some of those other platforms. Okay, so. Oh wow. So the email has been sent which is scary because I kind of know some of these people. But we'll see what happens. I'll report back and tell you know, if you see Ramp, Plaid, Figma, Shopify, Applovin advertising on this podcast, it hopefully came from that personalized email. So I'll keep you posted on that. What's happening now is it's updating a plan with expanded outreach. It's identifying top five TBN sponsor companies and their CEOs and founders. It's researching all five companies in parallel, finding the partnership brand marketing contact at each. It's researching sponsors across tech podcasts to build the bigger prospect list and it's doing follow up sequences and weekly monitoring in parallel. This is literally a marketing email marketing person's old job point blank. This is and it's using Cloud Sonnet 4.6 which is great. I will say I wish it didn't send those emails without me clicking send. When I went up here, if we scroll up here, it was like do you want to send these emails? And I didn't click send. Like I actually didn't think it was going to click the emails. I'm all for it because I think it's fun to see like if you know, if it converts but I, you know would have loved to, to have to have double checked that. So this is really cool. It's researching all the sponsors. Let's go ahead and while it's, it's sort of running here, let's go ahead and do some more use cases. Automated Competitive intel the second, second one here. Automated Competitive intel on autopilot recurring monitoring with push alerts every morning at 8am check these five competitors websites for pricing changes, new feature announcements and any new blog Posts. Also search X for any mentions of them. If anything has changed since yesterday, send me a push notification with a summary. And if nothing has changed, stay quiet. Why is this mind blowing? This turns a computer into a persistent competitive intelligence agent that runs every day without you touching it. It browses their actual websites, compares it what it found yesterday. Okay, let's go and see if this works. We're gonna head and start a new task. I'm gonna go ahead and you can see what's cool. You can also just dictate here, but you don't need to. And I could see myself getting used to this. I don't know about you, but I can, I can definitely see myself getting used to this. Which competitor should I monitor? Okay, so you know, let's just say we're. Let's go with the podcast stuff. So let's just say my first million. What other podcasts all in podcasts. These are the top three and you figure out the other two. My pod is called the Startup Ideas Podcast and I'm Greg Eisenberg. Okay, let's, yeah, let's get, let's get perplexing computer to do some of the work. Why do I have to do all that work? So I'm just testing it a little bit. Says remembering Greg's podcast and identity. So it's updating memory. So that's really cool. Just loving. I'm loving this. I'm loving this. Watching it cook. It feels really good. Based on my research, two strong competitors are 20 VC and acquired. Both target the same entrepreneurial audience and frequently overlapped with your listener base. Cool. Now let's set up the daily 8am monitoring task. I need to convert 8am Eastern to UTC first. So it's going ahead and like coding, which is really cool. So it's going ahead and coding and that's why, you know, it's a computer with access to, you know, 16, I think it's 16 different models we saw before was using Sonnet 4.6 and it's supposed to be using the best model for the best task. And you know, it's just interesting. It's interesting watching it, how it thinks. So every morning I'll automatically check these five competitors what I'm watching for pricing, response for the changes on their sites, new feature announcements or product launches, new blog posts or content, new episode drops, guest announcements, notable X activity and mentions. If anything has changed, you'll get a push notification with the summary and links. If nothing has changed, you won't hear from me. First run is tomorrow. Morning at 8am I picked a 20 VC and acquired as the two additional. Yeah, we know that. Okay, so I'm going to say that's cool, but what would today's report look like? I want to see it so I can give feedback. So because you're not going to be there with me at 8:00am, I just wanted, I want you to see what, you know, what it's capable of. So Perplexity Computer goes, good call. Let me run the full check right now so you can see exactly what tomorrow, tomorrow's report would look like. So if this works and you're a founder or you want to be a founder, you want to build something, there is no reason why you shouldn't be having something like this going. Right? I wonder if you can. I wonder like here. So let's scroll up a bit. My question is, so you're going to run this, but can you email it to me? Right, I'm going to ask that. Like, I would love for it to be emailed. I don't necessarily want to like go and check Perplexity every morning at 8am But I much rather just be sent to my email or communicated to me. You know, like I said, I. What I liked about Lindy AI is you can use some and open clause, you can use iMessage. So it's using Sonnet 4.6 again. It's looking at all the latest episodes of the podcast, doing research, compiling the reports and then. Oh, that's cool. You can go and click and see all the subtasks. This reminds me a lot like of Manus. Manus does a really good job at that and I actually think Manus is just like underrated as a platform. I really need to go back in there and do another episode on Manus. But yeah, it's going ahead and doing that. It's cooking, it's cooking, it's cooking. And yeah, I think, I think this, I mean I would open this, you know, I would open this and not because I want to do what like quote unquote competition is doing on any business I'm starting. But it does help like get your creative juices flowing. And you know, I'm all about getting creative juices flowing. I find it helpful even if you want to be the anti version of them. Right. Sometimes a competitor will launch a new feature or do something, launch a brand campaign and it's not about, hey, I want to do what they want to do. It's like actually like I, you know, I want to be different than them. Great example of that is, you know, OpenAI announced they're doing ads. Anthropic announced they're not doing ads, they're the anti version of each other. And I think that, I think having a competitor analysis report, having agents go ahead and doing this for you, sending it to you, could be really cool just to help you get those creative juices flowing and get the most out of your day that way. Right. I think that's a big part of why a lot of us want to use AI agents is if we can get unfair advantage in terms of information, help us frame that information, help to get the most out of that information, then you know, we'll be, we'll be ahead. So let's see what's happening here. So it's actually saved it, saved it as an MD file into home slash user MFM report. Well I guess the report for each of the different podcast, the all in TVPN, the 20 VC and so it creates those files and then it's done. And this is what, so this is what the notification would look like. A new episode drops today. So it says new episode. This is Harry Stebbings Anthropic wipes billions off the market. It's a new episode published a European microfunds report confirmed as a speaker. I mean I'm just scrolling through this and like it's interesting. My first million. Ryan Smith, you know from the Utah Jazz on there. That's really cool. Pat Walls, dumb iPhone apps making money. That's cool. Andrew Wilkinson best worst business in 26. Very cool. Sampar pivoting YouTube channel away from personal finance towards founder led content. His second video already hit 100,000 views. Like that in itself is interesting, right? No format or pricing changes to mfm. It's like these are. This is interesting. And then says that's a format. On quiet days when nothing is meaningful or change across all five, you get no notification at all. What do you think? Anything you'd want added, removed or formatted differently? How are you going to send me this report? So I like these reports but like how am I going to get them? Right now it's a push notification through perplexity. Interesting. So you have to download the app. So what is the best way? Yeah, I guess you could. Could you send via email? Is that even possible? Can you send via imessage? I don't think it's going to be able to send via imessage but you know a man can dream. You know, we can dream. We all can dream. Let me check what's messaging and email tools are provided are available. So it's going to go ahead and do that. Email's ready to go. Emails already connected. I can send the full report to your inbox every morning. Imessage isn't available. So anyways it gives the, you know, it could send via email, which is really cool. Okay, don't send emails for now. All right, so let's go ahead and see what our cold email stuff is up to. Wow, this is, this is crazy, man. Oh my God. So it's researching sponsors across competing pods, it's setting up a weekly monitor, checks those pods for new sponsors, send you a notification with partnership contacts and it's scheduling the follow up sequences at day three and day seven. Who doesn't reply? It's just doing it all. It's found 96 sponsor prospects found. This is crazy. I bet you this can, I mean this, this is, this is something that could definitely work. All right, let's go back and do another use case. Investor Pipeline research deep dive 50 VCs before you fundraise, here are 50, 50, 50 VC firms I'm considering raising four for my series A. For each one, find their most recent fund size partner, blah blah blah. Put it all into a spreadsheet. Why? It's interesting. Computer runs batch research across 50 firms in parallel web search, social and X LinkedIn. You get back a structured spreadsheet with everything. I'm kind of, I'm not that interested in raising money from VCs, but I, I am interested in seeing how this could work and how you can create spreadsheets. So we're just going to test to see how this is able to do some research and throw things into spreadsheets. So it says I need to clarify a few things before diving into this research. So it says I need some details to make this actually target and useful which company you're raising Series A for. Let's just do, let's pretend, let's pretend I'm the CEO of. Well, I'll just say I'm the co founder of ideabrouser.com the number one website for people to find great startup ideas, trends and how to build them with AI. I'm at series A level so I'm just giving it the name of the company and it's going to go ahead and hopefully create that spreadsheet. While it's doing that, let's go ahead and see another use case. Turn a podcast episode into a full content machine. Whoa, that's cool. So here's my latest podcast recording transcribe it with speaker labels, write a fifteen word, hundred word blog post, pull out the five most tweetable quotes. That's really interesting. So it's cool that you can do that. I'm not going to do that because I don't have an audio file handy. But basically what you can do is you can set up so that every, you know, every time like you can set up a recurring workflow. I guess like every time you launch a new podcast you can extend it to, you know, blog posts, tweetable quotes, LinkedIn carousel. And just like based on how this is working, it just feels like it would do a good job. Okay, so the status here, if you see the left, it shows that it needs something from me and now it's just asking me, can you share the VC SERMs? I don't know who would fund this. You do the research on the best ones. So we're just gonna make it do a lot of the work. And let's see. Fair enough. Let me find the best fit VCs for idea Browser Series A. I'll load the relevant skills and build a targeted list based on your profile. AI powered platform. And yeah, so it's going ahead and says Idea Browser sits at the intersection of several hot sectors, AI powered tools, creator economy, community platforms. And I'm researching across those vectors. So that's exactly how like a human being would go and actually reach out to venture people. Of course if you know them, you would just be like, I'm going to reach out to Jimmy because Jimmy is works at this venture fund. But if you don't, the way you would do it is you would say like, okay, what are VC firms that are investing in this, you know, genre type of company? So it's going ahead and doing it for us. It's using Sonnet 4.6. I just expanded this. It says it's looking at Bessemer and Union Square Ventures. It's researching, it's just going through tons and tons of different articles, saving the final curated 50 VC firms to workspace. Let's see here, if you click files, what happens? Okay, Nothing here really. These are all the connectors I guess. So this is where you can use. Yeah, we've already connected Gmail, Calendar, but you can connect, you know, Google, Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, Slack, Ahrefs, you know, Cloudflare. I'm just looking at the ones that are interesting to me, Google, Gemini, HubSpot is really interesting. Yeah, because imagine like your CRM, right? Your CRM has all the data, whatever you use Even if you use like Google Sheets as your CRM, if you have all the data and you can load it up into here and you have a computer that can go and access this, that's really cool. PayPal, sending money. That's crazy. Reddit. That's cool. You know, how do you find pain points and stuff like that? You gotta get ideabrowser.com on here. All right, Waiting for your response. So it's gone ahead and identify them. Interesting. This will search far and wide across the Internet to get you fund sizes, sector, recent investment, best, best partners. This will consume a significant amount of credits. Do you want to proceed? At least it asks. At least it asks. I'm not sure how many credits you get with your max plan. So, you know, I've been using this for now, like 30 minutes. So far, so good. But we'll see, right? I will say that even like if this cost $200, like this session, it would, would have been worth it for me because again, like you close the sponsorship and it works out. That's worth it. Okay, so it's going ahead and researching all in parallel and it. This is. Wow, this is, this is crazy. These are all like, yeah, these are people I would reach out to if I was raising money. So this is, this is really cool. All right, let's. While it's doing this, let's go ahead and check our last use case Live market diligence on a deal. A full investment memo from a single ticker. Build me an investment research memo on shop. Pulled their latest at Shopify. Pull their latest financials, earnings transcript highlights. Compare their margins and growth to BigCommerce and Wix. Check what analysts and finance what are saying. Compile into a polished PDF but chart. I want bull case, bear case and your assessment. I've been seeing, I will say I've been seeing on. On X a lot of people using Perplexity computer with the use case of using it as like a financial analyst. I saw, I think, I think it was, I think it was Morgan Linton who built like a Bloomberg terminal use like vibe code using Perplexity computer, which is really cool. So it seems to be like really primed for financial advice. Wow, this is actually. This is cool. So it says I'll build a comprehensive investment research on Shopify. Let me load the data visualization and research assistant skills. So it's cool. You don't have to like install the skills. Right. It's going ahead and doing that for you. It knows. So I do use Perplexity and knows that I like value investors and Bill Ackman is a value investor. So it's gone ahead and brought that in. So it looks at your old searches on Perplexity and even though I've never used Perplexity Computer, it knows a little bit about me, which is interesting. For people who use Perplexity, that context will already be loaded. So it says I have all the data I need. Let me get the shop estimates and analyst research, then build the PDF. I have plenty of data. That's a little. It's a little flex there. Perplexity Computer. Let me now update the tasks and build a comprehensive PDF with charts. Let me download the price history in CSV and build a complete PDF with charts using a sub agent. So what's cool about. You know what I'm learning? What's cool about computer is sub agents skills tools. That's all built into this. And people thought Perplexity was dead. Here we go. The CSV downloaded as single lines. Let me save the data properly from the content I already have. All right, so you can see the status here. It's working. While it's working, let's just ask it. Do you have any more use cases people should try? I'm live right now. I'm just curious if it has any of them. But this is something that you should totally do. Just you know, ask. Ask it for use cases. Five more different angles. We won't have time to do today, but just, you know, could be really interesting for you. Steal your competitors SEO strategy auto generate a branded pitch deck from a loom video. That's pretty cool. Shadow CFO weekly financial sanity check on autopilot Amazing hiring sorcerer find and rank 50 candidates a minutes. The deal room due diligence package on an acquisition target. More. Give me, give me a few more. Those are all really interesting. I think the hardest part of a lot of this is like figuring out okay, which agents recurring flows should I have reverse any engineer, any SaaS pricing page. Wow, that's cool. You instantly see exactly where you underpriced. That's really cool. Customer discovery on autopilot Free customer research Clone your best performing ad copy. Wow, this is crazy. So yeah, let's check in on this. So okay, so here's, here's what we got. It's got the name, the fund of this is the vc, the VC list, the partner's name, recent tweets, recent interviews, the different sources. That's crazy. And it's building. Yeah, it's just building an Excel spreadsheet with all that data literally building an Excel spreadsheet. It's an analyst. All right. Safe to say this exceeded my expectations. I don't know about you, but this is really cool. Something I'm going to be playing more with. I'm really interested in sort of the open qualification of the Internet. So this whole, this whole world where now you can spin up these machines with agents, sub agents tools and skills, have it access files and get them to do things for you. I think a lot of us want to start these one person, $1 billion companies want to smart small teams or even a small team and building these small companies, software companies, agent companies, SaaS companies. And that's why I like playing with these tools. And you know, I'm just, I'm grateful that you know, you come and you watch these videos, you listen, you like, you comment and you know, I'm sharing everything I'm learning in real time and I just find this just such an exciting moment in entrepreneurial history. I built and sold, you know, three startups, advisor to TikTok and Reddit. I've invested in a ton, been doing this since I've been a kid and yeah, I just find like right now just to be so fun to tinker, have fun and build assets. So I'm excited to see what you think of this Perplexity computer and I'll be reviewing and checking out more of these in the future because I think it's an unfair advantage. So hope this has been helpful. Send it to a friend if it has been and I'll see you next time on the Startup Ideas podcast. Have a creative day, my friend.