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Connect Perplexity to Slack

Perplexity researches with current sources; Slack is where your team decides what to do with the findings. Connecting them puts competitor updates, new-lead research and fresh content drafts in front of the people who need them, without anyone running searches by hand.
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Ideas

What you can do with Perplexity and Slack

Competitor briefs, researched leads and content drafts posted where your team works. These are ready-made starting points. Anything else you can describe works too.
Weekly

Post a weekly competitor update to Slack

Every Monday your sales channel gets a short update on each competitor's news, pricing and product changes, with sources.

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The moment it happensAI

Research new sign-ups and post strong leads to Slack

When someone signs up, their company is researched and scored, and strong fits are posted to Slack with a short profile.

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WeeklyAI

Get a researched blog draft each week, announced in Slack

Every Wednesday a trending topic in your niche is researched, written up as a WordPress draft, and Slack tells you it's ready.

See how it works Your own logic

Any other automation you can describe in words

Your own rules, schedule and AI steps with Perplexity and Slack, plus any other app. Describe it and your assistant builds it.

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Build your own

Build any Perplexity and Slack automation you can describe

The ideas above are ready-made starting points, not a fixed list. Describe what should happen between Perplexity and Slack in your own words, with your conditions, other apps or an AI step, and your assistant writes it, tests it and runs it on ClickRuntime.

  • Your own rules

    Conditions, thresholds, filters and exceptions, written the way you'd explain them to a colleague.

  • Any number of apps

    One automation can read from one app and update several others. Over 248 apps are ready, and anything with an API works too.

  • AI where it helps

    Summaries, classification, extraction and drafts use ClickRuntime's built-in AI, with no extra key.

  • On a schedule or on each event

    Runs as often as every 5 minutes, or the moment an app sends an event, and keeps track of what it already handled.

For example, ask your assistant

Only post a competitor brief when something changed since last week, and keep it under 8 bullet points.

When someone asks a question in #research, reply in the thread with a sourced answer.

Use cases

Why people connect Perplexity and Slack

How the two apps work together

  • A schedule or a check every few minutes reads questions or runs a brief.
  • The script asks Perplexity and gets a sourced answer.
  • It posts the answer and sources to Slack.

  • Product teams watching competitors

    A weekly researched brief on competitors is posted. Changes are noticed.

  • Sales teams researching leads

    New leads get researched profiles posted to Slack. Calls are better.

  • Teams asking questions in a channel

    A question in #research gets a sourced answer. Research is shared.

  • Executives reading news briefs

    A morning brief on the industry is posted. Everyone sees the same news.

More apps

Perplexity, Slack and other apps in one automation

An automation isn't limited to two apps. Add the next step in another app and it runs as part of the same automation.

Competitor list

Each Monday, research each competitor in my Google Sheet with Perplexity and post the changes to #product.

Lead research

When a HubSpot lead is created, research their company and post the summary to #sales.

Save briefs

Post each weekly brief to Slack and save it in my Notion research database.

Setup

Connect Perplexity and Slack once

Every idea on this page uses the same two connections, so you set them up once. If one is missing, your assistant tells you and links to the right place.

Perplexity

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  1. Open the Perplexity API Portal at console.perplexity.ai and choose the project that should pay for the calls.
  2. Go to API Keys and generate a new key. It starts with pplx-.
  3. In the ClickRuntime dashboard, open Connections & secrets and save the key as a secret for Perplexity.

Slack

Team chat

  1. At api.slack.com/apps, create a new app from scratch in your workspace.
  2. Under OAuth & Permissions, add the bot scopes the automation needs, such as chat:write, channels:read and channels:history.
  3. In the ClickRuntime dashboard, open Connections, choose Slack and enter your app's details, then install it to your workspace.
  4. In each channel the automation should use, type /invite @your-app-name.

FAQ

Questions about connecting Perplexity and Slack

Do I need a Perplexity account?
Yes. Save your Perplexity API key in your ClickRuntime dashboard; each research request uses your Perplexity credits.
Which channel do the posts go to?
The channel you choose for each automation, such as #sales for competitor briefs or #leads for new sign-ups.
Are the sources shown in Slack?
Yes. Each post ends with the links behind it, so the team can check claims before using them.
Can I change what is researched?
Yes. Ask your AI assistant to change the competitors, questions or schedule, and approve the change.
Can it reply in threads?
Yes. Answers can be posted as thread replies.
Can it limit who can ask?
Yes. It can only answer messages from certain channels or users.
How long are answers?
You set the length, such as a short summary or a detailed brief.

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