Comet can take over seven jobs most professionals still do by hand, and an AI Central guide lays out all seven: turning the morning inbox into a to-do list, sourcing marketing topics, building research lists from LinkedIn and Medium, compressing deep research into one document, breaking down a sales dataset, running a daily news brief on a schedule, and prepping for meetings. What connects them is access, each one points Comet at live context instead of pasting it into a chat box.
What the document actually covers
The source is a seven-part AI Central guide subtitled seven tasks to stop doing manually, built around Comet, the Perplexity assistant this library item is tagged to. Every entry is framed as a task you already perform, not a feature you have not tried. That framing is what makes it usable rather than promotional.
The seven tasks, in the order the document presents them, each with what Comet is asked to return.
- Turn emails into action plans. Comet scans the inbox each morning and hands back a prioritised to-do list rather than a digest.
- Discover winning marketing ideas. It studies audience, competitor trends and engagement data, then proposes topics with an outline already attached.
- Gather data like a research pro. The example given is finding fifty or more AI speakers. Comet crawls platforms like LinkedIn and Medium, filters by expertise, and returns spreadsheet, doc and PDF.
- Automate deep research. Asked for the latest work on large language models and agents, it finds, summarises and compares the top studies, then saves everything into a single document.
- Turn raw data into insight. Upload a sales sheet and it breaks performance down by product, by location or by payment method, with visuals and takeaways.
- Stay ahead with AI news. A saved shortcut scans the web daily and delivers a summary to your inbox.
- Prep smarter for every meeting. Before a call it pulls attendee information, past conversations and agenda points, and drafts questions and short bios.
The through line is access, not prompting
Read the seven together and a pattern appears that no single card states outright. Not one of these tasks begins with you supplying the material. The inbox, the engagement data, the profiles on LinkedIn and Medium, the published studies, the day's web, the calendar invite, Comet is expected to reach all of it itself.
That is the difference between a chat window and an assistant sitting where the work already happens. The first task says it plainly. AI Central writes:
Every morning, Comet scans your inbox, understands your priorities, and builds a focused, ready-to-go to-do list.
Three verbs in that sentence, and the third one carries the weight. Scanning and understanding produce a summary. Building produces a decision. If your morning assistant hands you a recap of your inbox, you still have to do the sorting, which is the part that actually costs you the hour.
Name the artifact, not just the question
The most transferable habit in the document is easy to miss because it hides inside the descriptions. Almost every task specifies the shape of the output, not only the subject.
- The research task asks for spreadsheet, doc and PDF formats, ready to use instantly.
- The deep research task asks for everything saved neatly into a single document.
- The marketing task asks for topics complete with an outline.
- The dataset task asks for clean visuals and clear takeaways alongside the numbers.
- The meeting task asks for drafted questions and short bios, which are documents, not observations.
Naming the artifact does half the specification work for you. An assistant told to research AI speakers returns prose. One told to return a filtered spreadsheet of AI speakers has been handed a schema, a stopping condition and a quality bar in a single clause, for about four words of effort.
The exclusion line does the heavy lifting
Task six is the only one that runs without you. It is a saved shortcut with two fields, a name and a set of instructions, and once saved it fires on a schedule. The document reproduces the instructions in full: a delivery time of eight in the morning, a topic list covering model launches and research paper releases, a list of named practitioners whose commentary counts as signal, then one closing line.
Avoid funding, brand name change, logo change kind of news.
That line, from the shortcut instructions shown in the AI Central document, is the most reusable sentence in the whole guide. A recurring brief does not fail on accuracy, it fails on volume. Funding rounds, rebrands and logo refreshes are the highest-frequency, lowest-value items in AI news, and they are exactly what a daily agent will fill your inbox with unless you rule them out by name. Say what you do not want, in the instruction, once.
One inconsistency worth flagging, since it will trip up anyone copying this exactly. The body copy calls the shortcut a custom news agent and writes it as slash a i dash news, while the settings panel captured in the same document shows the name field reading slash news dash agent. The name is only a trigger you type, so pick whichever you will remember.
What the sales screenshot really shows
Task five is the most honest card in the set, and probably by accident. It promises that Comet instantly breaks down a sales sheet, then reproduces Comet's actual reply, which does something more careful. The assistant confirms the shape of the table first:
You have a typical sales table with all necessary information for your four requested analyses: product revenue, best location, top product-location combos, and common payment methods.
It then asks for the data to be pasted or uploaded before generating anything, and offers a chart type per question: a bar chart for top revenue product, a bar or pie chart for revenue by customer state, a pivoted matrix or grouped bar chart for best product per location, and a pie chart for payment method.
Read that as the realistic version of instantly. What arrives first is a plan and a request, not a finished chart. It is also a free template. Those four questions, revenue by product, best location, best product per location and most used payment method, are the standard opening pass on any transactional dataset, and pairing each with a named chart type turns an answer into something you can drop into a deck.
What to do with this in the next week
If you are starting from zero, do these in order, lowest risk first.
- Run the morning inbox pass first. It is the safest of the seven because the output is a list you can override, and it is the one that repeats every single day.
- Convert one recurring request into a saved shortcut with a time, a topic list and an exclusion line. The exclusion line is not optional, it is what keeps the brief readable in week four.
- Add the artifact to every request. Spreadsheet, single document, PDF, bar chart. Four words at the end of the ask.
- Before your next call, request all five meeting inputs in one go: attendee information, past conversations, agenda points, drafted questions and short bios.
- Keep a human check on anything produced by crawling. Expertise is a judgment call, not a field in a database.
The document closes on a line that is worth keeping in view while you do any of this.
Comet is a tool.
AI Central ends there deliberately. These are all things you already do badly on a Monday morning. The tool does not fix the process, it executes whatever process you hand it, which is why the exclusion line and the named artifact matter more than the model underneath.
What can Comet do that a normal chatbot cannot?
Per this document, the difference is reach. Every task starts from a source Comet gets to itself: your inbox, platforms like LinkedIn and Medium, published studies, a file you upload, the day's web, your upcoming calls. You point at context instead of pasting it in.
Do I need to write long prompts for this?
No. The only complete prompt in the document is the news agent shortcut, and it is four short parts: a delivery instruction with a time, a list of topics to prioritise, a list of people whose commentary counts, and one line naming what to leave out.
Will Comet analyse my spreadsheet on its own?
Not from a mention alone. In the exchange the document reproduces, Comet confirms the table has what the four requested analyses need, then asks for the rows to be pasted or supplied as CSV or Excel before producing graphs. Give it the file, and name the chart type you want back.
How do I get the daily AI news brief set up?
Create a shortcut, give it a name you will actually type, and put the standing instruction in the instructions field: the time you want it, the categories that matter, the voices you follow, and the categories to skip. Save it, and it runs on schedule from then on.