{"slug":"perplexity-market-scan","title":"A sourced market scan with the holes left visible","summary":"Perplexity searches current public sources and returns a scan that separates numbers it found from numbers it did not.","agent":"Perplexity","agentSlug":"perplexity","category":"Research","categorySlug":"research","roles":["Researcher","Marketer"],"roleSlugs":["researcher","marketer"],"industries":["Media"],"industrySlugs":["media"],"jobs":["research"],"topic":"Research","topicSlug":"research","score":17,"difficulty":"easy","estCost":"Perplexity's docs include a free starting point and paid API usage. A single scan can stay on the product's ordinary search if that is what you have.","costTier":"free","timeSaved":"An afternoon of open-tab research, with the citation check still on you.","prompt":"Scan the market for the job described below. Use current public sources.\n\nReturn:\n- Five suppliers or approaches, each with a source link and the date on the page if shown\n- What they charge, or \"price not public\"\n- Who each one is for, using the source's words\n- Two facts you expected to find and did not\n\nDo not average prices. Do not cite a number you cannot attach to a URL.\n\nJOB:","steps":[{"title":"Open Perplexity or its API with the prompt","detail":"The getting-started docs cover the product and the agent API. Use search with citations for this playbook."},{"title":"Name the job narrowly","detail":"'AI tools' returns a magazine list. 'Tools a 12-person support team uses to draft replies' returns something you can check."},{"title":"Click every link that carries a number","detail":"If the number is not on the page, delete it. The prompt already asked for that discipline."},{"title":"Keep the 'not found' section","detail":"Those holes are the next search, or a reason to stop."}],"sourceUrl":"https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/getting-started/overview","sourceNote":"Official documentation URL, checked when this seed was written. The prompt and steps are an original AI Playbook Gems playbook, not a quotation of a customer story, and have not been re-run.","date":"2026-10-09","verified":false,"status":"unverified","sponsorUrl":"","metrics":[{"label":"Hands-on time","value":"Link checking, often 20–40 minutes"},{"label":"You still approve","value":"Any number that will be repeated externally"},{"label":"Cost bucket","value":"Free to start"}],"faq":[{"question":"Has this Perplexity playbook been re-run for the catalog?","answer":"No. Status is unverified. Paste the prompt, keep the version that worked, and do not treat the time or cost lines as measurements."},{"question":"Can I quote the scan in a deck?","answer":"Only the lines whose URLs you opened. The unverified label on this playbook applies to the playbook, and your citation check is what makes a line usable."}],"url":"https://aiplaybookgems.com/usecases/perplexity-market-scan","jsonUrl":"https://aiplaybookgems.com/api/usecases/perplexity-market-scan"}