What people do with Perplexity Comet

• Book a restaurant and draft a reschedule email with Comet

  A reviewer had Comet find and reserve a Friday 7pm table and fill in a Gmail reschedule email, leaving the send to the user.

  2 accounts

• Find and book airport parking (partly failed)

  A reporter asked Comet to find cheap parking near SFO and book it; it entered the wrong dates twice and still pushed checkout.

• Search flights with airline constraints using Comet

  Comet searched Lisbon-to-Taiwan flights across chosen airlines with no 737 Max and one stop max, pulling live prices and reaching the passenger info page.

• Plan a London walking tour and hunt cheap flights

  The author used Comet as default browser for a month to plan a walking tour, search flights in set windows and draft emails, noting where it struggled.

• Book a Southwest flight from a search

  A Travel Weekly reporter had Comet book a chosen Southwest flight on a logged-in account, selecting the fare and entering personal details.

• Shortlist destinations and compare stays

  Comet shortlisted sunny destinations by flight time from Amsterdam, then pulled Airbnb and Booking.com listings into a comparison table.

• Search for a wedding flight to New York

  The author gave Comet and ChatGPT Atlas the same flight-booking task; Comet mostly pointed to aggregators instead of specific flights.

• Research restaurants and hotel availability for trips

  A writer used Comet to browse Michelin restaurants for Copenhagen, check Japan hotel availability, and look for deals.

All Travel & Bookings use cases, from every agent

• Find laid-off LinkedIn prospects and draft outreach

  Comet scanned LinkedIn posts through her logged-in account, pulled names and links, and drafted outreach notes for review in under a minute.

  2 accounts

• Manage X follows and unfollows

  @keyrunnftart used Comet to unfollow accounts and follow others back on X.

• Follow an account and comment on LinkedIn

  Comet followed the Perplexity CEO on LinkedIn, found a specific post and commented on it in one attempt.

• Scrape startup directories for leads in parallel

  The author used Comet to spawn multiple agents scraping ProductHunt for cold leads who could benefit from Reddit marketing.

• Run marketing prospecting and SEO research

  Comet found growth-signal e-commerce companies, built contact lists with Gmail drafts, mined Reddit for SEO questions, and audited a checkout flow.

All Sales, Marketing & Support use cases, from every agent

• Research on X, summarize YouTube transcripts, build decks

  @Tape_Vector uses Comet for X research, summarizing YouTube video transcripts and building presentations.

• Compile recent LLM research papers into a Word doc

  Comet found major LLM/agent training papers from six months with links and analysis, then saved them to a Word doc via Outlook.

• Research conference speakers and organize tabs

  Comet researched 50 HumanX speakers, surfaced themes and podcast guests, built a camera spec table, and cleaned up tabs.

• Find Reddit threads on reader pain points

  A newsletter writer had Comet find Reddit threads on reader pain points, finding extra sources in about 15 minutes without intervention.

• Email a daily AI news brief and build slide decks from tabs

  Comet searches the day's AI news, picks the top 5 stories and emails a brief, and merges tagged tabs and reports into a cited Google Slides deck.

All Research & Knowledge use cases, from every agent

• Find coffee makers under $100 and add options to the cart

  Perplexity Comet searched Amazon for coffee makers with a grinder, built a comparison table and added two options to the cart, stopping before purchase.

  3 accounts

• Build an Instacart list for a charcuterie board

  Comet added about 20 items to an Instacart cart from ShopRite in about five minutes, choosing cheapest or bestselling items, and declined to purchase.

  2 accounts

• Book a gym tour and compare memberships with Comet

  NBC tested Comet on job applications, shopping and a gym tour; it needed intervention, booked the tour after prodding, and built a price comparison chart.

• Find and add high-meat cat food to a basket

  A reviewer had Comet's assistant find the cat food with the most meat and add it to the basket, plus some product comparison and form filling, though imperfectly.

All Shopping & Errands use cases, from every agent

• Run grocery, email and photo tasks through Comet browser

  A reviewer gave Comet access to his Intermarché account and tried it on email cleanup, sorting 8,000 Dropbox photos and calendar planning, with failures and security risks.

• Apply to marketing jobs on LinkedIn in bulk

  A Comet user had the agent submit about 100 LinkedIn applications in 40 minutes, with no interviews resulting.

• Fill out booking forms automatically

  A reviewer had Comet fill out booking forms and a questionnaire across several sites, pausing only to confirm completion.

All Life Admin & Home use cases, from every agent

• Claude Cowork

  Run browser agents for small admin tasks

  An educator tried agentic browsers that made a meeting poll, looked up and summarized colleagues' teaching schedules, and reformatted a slide deck, though clunky and slow.

• Draft and send an email through Gmail

  Comet wrote an SEO email and sent it to the author without asking for review; it arrived with markdown formatting problems.

• Test API endpoints in Postman and report results

  @ai_for_success used Comet to generate test payloads from context, run API endpoint tests in Postman and produce a final report.

• Claude Code

  Delegate web research from Claude Code to Comet

  An MCP server lets Claude Code hand web navigation, login-walled pages and research to Comet while it keeps coding, then returns results.

• Automate LinkedIn content creation

  The author used Comet to automate their LinkedIn content workflow and reports 5 unexpected Gumroad sales.

• Open recent protein-ligand structures in PDB

  A researcher had Comet find the three latest GSK3B protein-ligand complexes in the PDB and open each in Ligand Interaction view.