What is Perplexity Computer?

I take Perplexity Computer for its first real spin and test five use cases that founders can use right now to make money and move faster. I connect my Gmail live, let the AI send cold outreach on my behalf, set up daily competitive intelligence monitoring, research 50 VCs for a mock Series A, and kick off a full investment memo on Shopify, all in a single session. By the end, I walk away genuinely impressed and convinced the $200/month Max plan can pay for itself with one closed deal. Timestamps 00:00 – Intro 00:35 – What We're Testing Today 02:35 – Use Case 1: Warm Outbound at Scale 15:31 – Use Case 2: Automated Competitive Intel 25:11 – Use Case 3: Investor Pipeline Research (50 VCs) 26:58 – Use Case 4: Turn a Podcast Into a Content Machine 31:39 – Use Case 5: Live Market Diligence (Shopify Investment Memo) 34:17 – Bonus: Additional Use Cases Worth Trying 36:06 – Closing Thoughts and Takeaways Key Points Perplexity Computer runs multiple research tasks in parallel using sub-agents, skills, and tools — functioning like a virtual analyst working across the open internet. The cold outreach workflow found real email addresses, researched each prospect's recent activity, and drafted hyper-personalized emails that reference specific details — then sent them through a connected Gmail account. Setting up recurring competitive intelligence monitoring (daily reports, weekly sponsor tracking) is where the tool shifts from a one-off assistant to a persistent agent running on autopilot. The VC pipeline research use case demonstrates how founders who lack a warm network can still build a structured, targeted investor list with fund sizes, thesis alignment, and partner contacts. At $200/month on the Max plan, the cost pays for itself if even one sponsorship deal or investor meeting closes from the outreach. The platform already supports connectors for Gmail, Google Drive, Slack, HubSpot, Ahrefs, Reddit, and more — making it a serious contender for centralized founder workflows. The #1 tool to find startup ideas/trends - https://www.ideabrowser.com LCA helps Fortune 500s and fast-growing startups build their future - from Warner Music to Fortnite to Dropbox. We turn 'what if' into reality with AI, apps, and next-gen products https://latecheckout.agency/ The Vibe Marketer - Resources for people into vibe marketing/marketing with AI: https://www.thevibemarketer.com/ FIND ME ON SOCIAL X/Twitter: https://twitter.com/gregisenberg Instagram: https://instagram.com/gregisenberg/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gisenberg/

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• 0:00Greg Isenberg?

  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.

• 0:35Greg Isenberg?

  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?

• 1:09Greg Isenberg?

  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 get it going. That's $200 a month. They say it's coming to pro and maybe 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

• 1:54Greg Isenberg?

  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 Claude code instances. It's right there, running it 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 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 should surprise your audience. These are built for founders who want to move faster and make more money.

• 2:35Greg Isenberg?

  Warm outbound at scale, so personalized prospect research and outreach in one shot. So let's go ahead and try this. I guess you can press copy right over here. And I guess you want to start a task. So 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

• 3:17Greg Isenberg?

  and forth. I think that's pretty clean. Perplexity's always done a good job at doing pretty clean UI/UX. Sip a cold brew. Let's keep it going. All right, I'll tackle this step by step. I need a few things to make this effective. Again, running the task in parallel. I see a couple of things I need to address before we can execute on this. Gmail's 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

• 4:00Greg Isenberg?

  connected it. So it's super cool that you could just do that pretty easily. Gmail's 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...

• 4:26Greg Isenberg?

  I run the Startup Ideas Podcast. This is for podcast sponsorships. I want you to research who advertises on TBPN. And then 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.

• 5:10Greg Isenberg?

  And CTA, do you want to set up a call with my team? Let's go ahead and do that and see if it's able to find who advertises on TBPN. So it says, I need to find the first companies to advertise on TBPN. So it actually doesn't know what, does it know what TBPN 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, TBPN signs with CTA. That's the right TBPN. So it finds them.

• 5:53Greg Isenberg?

  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 in 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.

• 6:35Greg Isenberg?

  So, this is cool that, you know, I can do this. But what I've had issues with in terms of cold DMs in the past is it just, it sounds lame, it doesn't sound like me. It's a lot of work to actually find the people. And, you know, let's just see if this is, 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.

• 7:11Greg Isenberg?

  And, because like, obviously Dylan Field, the founder of Figma, isn't gonna open a cold DM probably from, from my email.

• 7:23Greg Isenberg?

  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, uh, Perplexity Computer, 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, here are 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.

• 7:57Greg Isenberg?

  That's really cool. Like, that in itself is really, really, really crazy, right?

• 8:05Greg Isenberg?

  So, good on them for finding that. But we did talk about how we shouldn't, uh...

• 8:12Greg Isenberg?

  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 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, um... I think he analyzed like an MIR 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.

• 8:55Greg Isenberg?

  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. I showed a similar demo, but a tighter focus on people who are literally in the process of 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

• 9:34Greg Isenberg?

  email addresses, that's pretty cool. I'm going to say, and by the way, and if I press send email, it would just send the email. It's got connected 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

• 10:13Greg Isenberg?

  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 going to see what it says. Sometimes, you know, we're trying to push it to the limit. This is where we're reviewing proxy computers. So let's go and see. You're absolutely right. CEOs aren't reviewing sponsorship pitches. The person who actually signs podcast deals is usually head of brand marketing partnerships. And it goes and says, let's go, you know, let's go find those people. So it's going to go ahead and find them.

• 10:56Greg Isenberg?

  It also says what you're not asking, but should be outreach to companies that sponsor TVN's competitors too. Right? So if a company sponsors TVP, and they also sponsor my first million all in acquired, right? Set up a recurring monitor. I can check TVP and all in and other tech podcasts weekly for new sponsors. The moment a new brand starts advertising a competitor's brand, you get a notification with their partnership contacts. 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. You can, yeah, schedule a task. So it's very cool that you can spin up a proxy computer

• 11:40Greg Isenberg?

  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 at the door? Duh. Okay, so let's just see.

• 12:07Greg Isenberg?

  Good findings. Now I have solid leads. Let me compile what, uh, 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. It, it, no one else is trying really resonated. Direct mail becoming one of Rand's biggest channels, such a good example of that. Like, these emails are amazing and they're so personalized.

• 12:42Greg Isenberg?

  We're just gonna, I am impressed here. I'm going to, I'm gonna say.

• 12:49Greg Isenberg?

  I'm just gonna copy this, what you're asking and I 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 pods. It's setting up weekly monitor that checks those pods for new sponsors and sends you a notification.

• 13:31Greg Isenberg?

  What I like about the Lindy AI assistant, and I'm gonna 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.

• 13:45Greg Isenberg?

  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, I'll report back and tell, you know, if you see Ramp, Plaid, Figma, Shopify app, Lovin, advertising on this podcast, it hopefully came from that personalized email.

• 14:30Greg Isenberg?

  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 a 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 Claude Sonnet 4.6.

• 15:05Greg Isenberg?

  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 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

• 15:47Greg Isenberg?

  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

• 16:29Greg Isenberg?

  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, 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 Isenberg. Okay, let's, yeah, let's get, let's get perplexed to 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. It says, remembering Greg's podcast and identity. So it's updating memory.

• 17:14Greg Isenberg?

  So that's really cool.

• 17:18Greg Isenberg?

  Just loving, I'm loving this. I'm loving this, uh, watching it cook. It feels really good. Based on my research, two strong competitors are 20BC and Acquired. Both target the same entrepreneurial audience and frequently overlap with your listener base. Cool. Now let's set up the daily 8:00 AM monitoring task. I need to convert 8:00 AM Eastern to UDC first. So it's going ahead in like coding, which is really cool. So it's going ahead and coding.

• 17:48Greg Isenberg?

  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 it was using Sonnet 4.6. And it's supposed to be using the best model for the best task. And, uh, it, 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 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 8:00 AM. I picked a 20BC and Acquired as the two additional.

• 18:33Greg Isenberg?

  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 get feedback. So because you're not going to be there with me at 8:00 AM, 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?

• 19:12Greg Isenberg?

  I wonder if you can, I wonder like here, so let's scroll up a bit.

• 19:19Greg Isenberg?

  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 8 a.m., but I'd 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, and OpenClaws, you can use iMessage. So it's using Sonnet 4.6 again. It's looking at all the latest, uh, episodes of the podcast, doing research, compiling the reports. And then, uh, oh, that's cool. You can go and click and see all the subtasks. This reminds me a lot like of

• 20:02Greg Isenberg?

  Manus. Um, 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, on Manus.

• 20:15Greg Isenberg?

  But yeah, they, it's going ahead and doing that. It's cooking, it's cooking, it's cooking.

• 20:23Greg Isenberg?

  And, uh, yeah, I think, I think this, uh, I mean, I would open this, you know, I would open this and, and, 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, uh, 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

• 21:04Greg Isenberg?

  is, uh, 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, uh, I think having a competitor analysis report, having agents go ahead and, and doing this for you, uh, sending it to you could be really cool just to help you, yeah, get those creative juices flowing, um, and get the most out of your day that way, right? Like if you can, I think that's like a big part of what, you know, why a lot of us want to use AI agents is like, 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, uh, you know, we'll be, we'll be ahead.

• 21:50Greg Isenberg?

  So let's see what's happening here. So it's actually saved. It saved it as an M D file into home slash user M F M. Well, I guess the report for each of the different podcasts, the all in. T B P N. The twenty B C. 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 Stevings. Anthropic wipes billions off the market. It's the new episode.

• 22:34Greg Isenberg?

  Published a European micro funds 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 twenty six. Very cool. Sam Par pivoting YouTube channel away from personal finance towards founder led content. His second video already hit a hundred thousand views like that in itself is interesting. Right? No format or pricing changes to M F M. It's like these are, this is interesting. And then it says, that's a format on quiet days when nothing is meaningful. Change across all five, you get no notification at all. What do you think?

• 23:17Greg Isenberg?

  Anything you'd want added or remove a format 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, let's. A man can dream, you know, we can dream, we all can dream.

• 24:00Greg Isenberg?

  Let me check what's messaging and email tools are available. So it's gonna go ahead and do that. Email's ready to go. Email's already connected. I can send the full report to your inbox every morning. iMessage isn't available. So anyways.

• 24:17Greg Isenberg?

  It.

• 24:19Greg Isenberg?

  It gives the, you know, it could send via email, which is really cool. Okay, don't send emails for now.

• 24:29Greg Isenberg?

  Alright, 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. It 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. Alright, let's go back and do another use case.

• 25:14Greg Isenberg?

  Investor pipeline research. Deep dive 50 VCs before you fundraise. Here are 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 kinda, 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 gonna test to see how this is able to do some research and throw things into spreadsheets.

• 26:01Greg Isenberg?

  So it says I need to clarify a few things before diving into this research.

• 26:07Greg Isenberg?

  So it says, I need some details to make this actually targeted and useful. Which company are you raising Series A for?

• 26:16Greg Isenberg?

  Uh, let's just do, um, let's pretend, let's pretend I'm the CEO of, well, I'll just say, I'm the co-founder of Idea Browser.com.

• 26:33Greg Isenberg?

  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. Um, 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.

• 27:15Greg Isenberg?

  Uh, write a 15-word, 100-word blog post, pull up 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, uh, an audio file handy. But basically what you can do is you can set up, uh, 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, uh, 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. Um, okay, so the status here, if you see the left, it shows that it needs something from me.

• 28:00Greg Isenberg?

  Um, and now it's just asking me, can you share the VC terms? I don't know who would fund this. You do the research on the best ones. So we're just going to make it do a lot of the work. Um, and, and let's see, fair enough. Let me find the best fit VCs for Idea Browser Series A. Allow the relevant skills and build a targeted list based on your profile. AI-powered platform.

• 28:32Greg Isenberg?

  And yeah, so it's going ahead and it says idea browser sits at the intersection of several hot sectors, AI power 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,

• 28:56Greg Isenberg?

  you would just be like, I'm gonna 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, you know, 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.

• 29:38Greg Isenberg?

  Let's see here. If you click files, what happens? Okay, nothing here really. You know, these are all the connectors, I guess. So this is where you can use, yeah, we've already connected Gmail account, but you can connect, you know, Google, Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, Slack, Ahrefs, you know, CloudFlare, just looking at the ones that are interesting to me, Google Gemini. HubSpot is really interesting.

• 30:11Greg Isenberg?

  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.

• 30:30Greg Isenberg?

  You know, how do you find pain points and stuff like that? You gotta get a, you know, idea browser.com on here. All right, waiting for your response. So it's gone ahead and identify them. Interesting.

• 30:46Greg Isenberg?

  This will search far and wide across the internet to get you fund sizes, sector, recent investments, best business 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 costs $200, like this session, it 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 gone ahead and researching

• 31:29Greg Isenberg?

  all in parallel. And 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, pull their latest, at Shopify, pull their latest financials, earnings, transcript highlights, compare their margins and growth to Big Commerce and Wix, check what analysts and finance what are saying, pile into polished PDF with charts, I want bull case, bear case in your assessment. I've been seeing, I will say,

• 32:11Greg Isenberg?

  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, 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.

• 32:56Greg Isenberg?

  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

• 33:08Greg Isenberg?

  I like like value investors and Bill Ackman is a value investor. So it's gone ahead and like 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 it's a little flex there perplexity computer. Let me now update the tasks and build a comprehensive PDF with charts.

• 33:44Greg Isenberg?

  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, when I'm learning what's cool about computers, sub agent 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.

• 34:13Greg Isenberg?

  All right. So you can see the status here. It's working. While it's working, let's just ask it.

• 34:22Greg Isenberg?

  Do you have any more use cases people should try? I'm live right now.

• 34:31Greg Isenberg?

  I'm just curious if it has any of them.

• 34:35Greg Isenberg?

  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, it 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 minute. The deal room, due diligence package on an acquisition target. More. Give me, give me a few more.

• 35:10Greg Isenberg?

  Those are all really interesting. I think the hardest part of a lot of this is like figuring, okay, which agents recurring flows should I have? Reverse 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.

• 35:55Greg Isenberg?

  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.

• 36:08Greg Isenberg?

  Safe to say 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. I'm really interested in sort of the open classification of the internet. So this whole, this whole world where now you can spin up these machines with agents, subagents, 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, one billion dollar companies. Want to smart small teams or even a small team and, and building these small companies, software companies, agent companies, SaaS companies.

• 36:49Greg Isenberg?

  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, and, and you, you watch these videos, you listen, you like, you comment. And, you know, I'm sharing everything I'm learning in real time.

• 37:06Greg Isenberg?

  And I just find this just such an exciting moment in entrepreneurial history. I've 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, 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 I hope this has been helpful. Send it to a friend if it, if it has been.

• 37:49Greg Isenberg?

  And I'll see you next time on the Startup Ideas Podcast. Have a creative day, my friend.