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Research Workflows with Perplexity

Class 2

Research Workflows

Perplexity-first Diligence

Use Perplexity for facts/citations → LLMs for synthesis.

Objectives

Queries & Follow-ups

Company Dossier

  • Products, revenue model, customers
  • Latest news, earnings, filings
  • Competitors and differentiators

Manager Profile

  • Talks, posts, interviews
  • Writing style, interests
  • Team org and priorities

In-Class Exercise

  1. Pick one target company and manager.
  2. Run 6–8 Perplexity queries; extract citations.
  3. Draft a 1-page “Why me, why now” brief.

Assignment

Tools

Research

  • Perplexity (citations, recency)
  • OpenRouter to route LLM calls

Synthesis

  • Claude / Gemini Pro 2.5
  • Gemini Flash 2.5 for image review