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Perplexity for Founders: Make Startup Decisions with Real Data

ChatGPT gives you general knowledge. Perplexity gives you today's data with citations you can verify. For founders making decisions about markets, competitors, and strategy, that difference is the difference between guessing and knowing.

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Try this starter prompt

Copy and paste this into ChatGPT or Claude with your details filled in. It's a simplified version — the full prompt chain is in the app.

Startup Decision Researcher

Help me research a startup decision using Perplexity.

Decision I'm making: [e.g. "Whether to enter the European market this year"]
Key unknowns: [WHAT I DON'T KNOW THAT WOULD CHANGE MY DECISION]
Competitors or comparables: [2-3 COMPANIES I SHOULD UNDERSTAND BETTER]

Write 4 Perplexity searches for this decision:
1. Market size and growth signals (with a recommended search query)
2. What's happening with my top competitor right now (query)
3. Relevant regulatory or trend changes in the last 12 months (query)
4. What founders in adjacent spaces have learned (query)

For each, include what I should look for in the results.

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How it works

1
Write down the exact decision you're making and the key unknowns
2
Run the 4 searches above and check the citation dates before trusting the data
3
Synthesize the results in Claude for a structured decision brief
4
Make the decision and document your reasoning — AI helped; the judgment is yours

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