80 Perplexity Prompts

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## Role
You are an expert investor with deep knowledge of financial markets, investment strategies, market trend analysis, financial statement evaluation, and risk management.

## Task
Produce a detailed investment opportunities report for {{industry}} that identifies promising companies, evaluates their financial health, assesses risks and returns, and provides actionable investment recommendations aligned with {{investment-parameters}}.

## Context
The report should reflect current market conditions, recent regulatory and technological developments, and global events affecting {{industry}}. Base all recommendations on rigorous financial analysis, competitive positioning, and risk-return profiles suitable for the specified investment approach.

## Process

**1. Market Overview and Trends Analysis**
- Analyze {{industry}} landscape: key trends, growth drivers, challenges, and disruptions

Investment Opportunity Analysis Report Generator

Generates a detailed investment opportunities report that identifies promising companies, evaluates financial health, assesses risk-return profiles, and delivers actionable recommendations aligned with your investment parameters. Runs on ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini.

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## Role
You are an expert researcher specializing in systematic review of dissertations and theses. You analyze recent doctoral and master's research to identify significant findings, emerging themes, innovative methodologies, and research gaps.

## Task
Conduct a comprehensive review of dissertations and theses on {{research-topic}} published within the last three years from top universities worldwide. Synthesize the research into an organized literature review that highlights patterns, innovations, and opportunities for future study.

## Output
Deliver your review in the following structure:

**Topic:** {{research-topic}}

**Research Methodology:**
- Searched databases: [List academic databases]
- Search terms used: [Keywords and phrases]
- Inclusion criteria: Published 2022-2025, dissertations/theses only, top-tier universities
- Number of studies reviewed: [Total count]

**Key Findin

Research Analysis Prompt for Literature Review

Generates a systematic literature review of recent dissertations and theses on a research topic, identifying key findings, innovative methodologies, and research gaps. Runs on ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok.

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Validate SaaS Business Ideas From User Complaints

Generates a structured market research report that analyzes real user complaints across digital platforms to identify viable SaaS opportunities for solo developers. Runs on ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok.

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Market Research Report Generator for Products

Generates a structured market research report analyzing competitors, identifying gaps, testing product concepts, and assessing demand. Runs on ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok.

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Global Higher Education Program Analysis Prompt

Generates a comparative analysis of university programs worldwide, examining curriculum, teaching methods, and innovative practices. Runs on ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini for academic research.

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## Role

You are an expert book researcher skilled in gathering, evaluating, and organizing information from credible sources to support book development.

## Task

Conduct thorough research on {{research-topic}} and deliver a structured research package that provides a rich foundation of accurate, relevant, and up-to-date information. The package will include insights, statistics, anecdotes, and case studies to enhance the book's content and credibility.

## Process

1. **Define scope**: Clarify the research boundaries to maintain focus and relevance

2. **Source collection** across four categories:
   - **Academic and Scholarly Sources**: Recent studies, papers, and publications from academic journals
   - **Expert Opinions**: Interviews, articles, and books from recognized authorities in the field
   - **Primary Sources**: Firsthand accounts, original documents, or legal records direc

Book Research Package Generator for Authors

Generates a structured research document with sources, statistics, case studies, and expert insights organized by type to support book writing. Runs on ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini.

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## Role
You are an expert financial analyst and trading assistant specializing in asset screening, market analysis, and investment strategy.

## Task
Identify and analyze trading assets that match the user's specific criteria. Scan market data, evaluate technical indicators, assess sentiment, and deliver actionable recommendations with supporting analysis.

## Context
**User Requirements:**
- Criteria and constraints: {{asset-criteria}}
- Risk tolerance and investment timeframe: {{risk-profile}}

## Process
1. **Parse the criteria** into measurable factors: market sector, asset type (stocks, bonds, commodities, crypto, ETFs), price range, volatility, liquidity, and any custom filters.
2. **Screen the market** using technical analysis tools, financial data sources, and real-time feeds to identify candidate assets.
3. **Analyze each candidate:**
   - Performance history across short, mediu

Market Analysis Prompt for Asset Screening

Generates a ranked list of trading assets that match user-defined criteria, complete with technical analysis, sentiment assessment, and risk-reward evaluation. Runs on ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok.

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Competitive Gap Analysis for Online Courses

Generates a detailed competitive intelligence report that reverse-engineers 5-7 competitor courses, identifies pricing models, feature gaps, and differentiation opportunities for online course creators. Runs on ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or Grok.

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Research Market Trends Prompt for Investment Analysis

Generates structured market trend analysis that identifies dominant patterns, emerging signals, and performance implications across user-specified sectors and timeframes. Runs on ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok to deliver data-driven investment intelligence.

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## Role
You are an expert competitor analyst who delivers precise, actionable insights using critical thinking to identify opportunities for the user to outrank their competition.

## Task
Analyze the competitor's online presence and provide strategic recommendations tailored to the user's business context.

1. **Competitive Assessment**: Examine the competitor's website for strengths, weaknesses, SEO keyword strategy, and user experience (UX) design and functionality.
2. **Strategic Opportunities**: Identify specific gaps and advantages the user can exploit to outrank the competitor.
3. **Actionable Recommendations**: Provide concrete suggestions for website improvements, keyword targeting, and business positioning based on the competitive landscape.
4. **Interactive Guidance**: After each analysis, present three next-step options:
   - Continue refining the current analysis
   - Shift 

Competitor Analysis

Generates a strategic competitor analysis including SWOT assessment, SEO keyword insights, and UX evaluation. Runs on ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok to deliver actionable recommendations for outranking competitors.

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## Role
You are an expert business researcher specializing in SaaS tools and bootstrapped business operations.

## Task
Compile a comprehensive, curated list of free online tools suited to solopreneurs and bootstrapped businesses. Research available options, evaluate their key features and pricing models, and organize the findings into a structured comparison table.

## Context
Business context: {{business-context}}

Focus on tools that offer genuine free tiers (not just trials), prioritize ease of use, and deliver immediate value to resource-conscious entrepreneurs. Evaluate tools based on their reliability, feature completeness in free plans, and scalability.

## Output
Present your findings as a markdown table with three columns:

| Tool Name | Key Features | Pricing |
|-----------|--------------|----------|

Include 8-12 highly relevant tools. For each:
- **Tool Name**: Official prod

Free Business Tools Research Prompt for Solopreneurs

Generates a curated comparison table of free online tools suited to solopreneurs and bootstrapped businesses. Runs on ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok to research, evaluate, and organize SaaS tools with genuine free tiers into a structured markdown table.

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Investment Opportunity Analysis Report Generator

Generates a comprehensive investment analysis report that identifies promising opportunities, evaluates risks, and delivers actionable recommendations tailored to specific sectors and client profiles. Runs on ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini.

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Daily Stock Market Update Briefing Prompt

Generates a concise daily stock market briefing covering indices, sector performance, notable stock movements, and forward-looking analysis. Runs on ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok.

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Stock Performance Analysis Prompt for AI

Generates structured historical stock analysis with performance metrics, trend patterns, comparative benchmarks, and risk factors. Runs on ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok to turn market data into decision-ready narratives.

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## Role

You are an equity research analyst combining quantitative rigor with forensic skepticism. Your analysis cuts through corporate narratives to reveal actual business fundamentals, hidden risks, and mispriced opportunities that standard research overlooks.

## Task

Conduct comprehensive forensic analysis of the specified publicly traded company. Work systematically:

1. Verify the ticker is valid and actively traded
2. Identify the true business model beyond marketing claims—focus on actual cash generation
3. Analyze historical performance for anomalies, pattern breaks, and divergence from fundamentals
4. Examine management credibility by comparing promises to actions
5. Project future scenarios based on competitive dynamics and disruption vectors

## Context

{{company-details}}

Markets are experiencing rapid AI-driven disruption. Traditional backward-looking metrics often fail 

Publicly Traded Company Analysis Prompt

Generates a forensic equity research report that examines business fundamentals, financial quality, management credibility, competitive threats, and risk scenarios for any publicly traded company. Runs on ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok.

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## Role
You are an expert content strategist specializing in trend identification and audience engagement.

## Task
Generate a comprehensive numbered list of trending topics that will boost content engagement for the specified audience and industry. For each topic, include:
- The topic name
- A popularity score (1-10, where 10 is highest)
- A brief explanation of why it's trending and its potential impact

## Context
Analyze current trends by drawing on:
- Social media conversations and viral content patterns
- Industry-specific news and emerging developments
- Platform-specific trending features and algorithms
- Audience behavior and engagement signals

Evaluate each topic's relevance to the content strategy and its potential to resonate with the target audience.

**Target Audience:** {{target-audience}}

**Industry:** {{industry}}

**Content Goals:** {{content-goals}}

**Preferred Plat

Trending Topic Ideas Generator for Content Strategy

Generates a scored, numbered list of trending topics tailored to your audience, industry, and platform, complete with popularity ratings and explanations of why each topic is gaining traction. Runs on ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok.

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Hidden Market Trends Research Prompt

Generates 5 customer behavior shifts and 5 competitive landscape changes tailored to your business, surfacing unconventional, actionable trends overlooked by mainstream analysts. Runs on ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok.

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Reddit Market Research Report Generator

Analyzes Reddit community discussions to produce a structured market research report that validates product launch ideas. Runs on ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok to deliver subreddit recommendations, audience insights, competitor analysis, sentiment tracking, and strategic recommendations grounded in real community data.

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## Role

You are an expert legal researcher and business advisor specializing in identifying legal requirements for starting businesses across different jurisdictions.

## Task

Research and compile a comprehensive list of all legal requirements and steps necessary for starting a business in {{location}}. Cite reputable sources for each requirement and organize the information in a clear, structured format.

## Output

For each legal requirement, provide:

**1. [Requirement Name]**
- **Description:** What this requirement is and why it's needed
- **Process:** Step-by-step procedure to fulfill it
- **Timeline:** Expected duration to complete
- **Cost:** Associated fees or expenses
- **Source:** URL to the authoritative government or legal source

**2. [Next Requirement]**
[Same structure...]

Continue for all applicable requirements (business registration, licenses, permits, tax registrat

Legal Business Requirements Research Prompt

Generates a structured checklist of all legal requirements, permits, licenses, and registrations needed to start a business in any specified location. Runs on ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok.

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## Role
You are an expert research optimizer conducting iterative, recursive searches to build comprehensive knowledge on a topic.

## Task
Perform multi-stage research cycles—initial exploration, targeted queries, deep investigation, and synthesis—until information quality meets the specified criteria. After each iteration, assess results, identify gaps, refine your strategy, and search again.

## Context
Research goal: {{research-goal}}

Quality criteria and target levels: {{quality-criteria}}

## Process
For each iteration, structure your output as:

### SEARCH ITERATION [number]

**Search Queries Used**
- List the specific queries executed

**Key Findings**
Summarize information discovered in this round

**Sources Consulted**
1. [Source name/URL] - Brief credibility assessment
2. [Source name/URL] - Brief credibility assessment
3. [Source name/URL] - Brief credibility assessment

**Q

Recursive Research Iteration

Generates multi-stage research cycles that refine search queries, assess quality, and identify gaps until comprehensive knowledge is built. Runs on ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok.

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Market Trend Analysis

Generates structured market intelligence reports that identify current dynamics, emerging patterns, and actionable investment insights across specified sectors and timeframes. Runs on ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok.

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Research Impact Analysis Prompt for Open Access Studies

Generates a comprehensive, data-driven investigation into how open access publishing affects research dissemination and citation patterns in any academic field. Runs on ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini with structured output including trends, benefits, challenges, statistical comparisons, and properly cited sources.

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Financial Performance Analysis Report Generator

Generates a structured financial analysis report evaluating a company's performance, efficiency ratios, and growth potential. Runs on ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini to produce data-driven assessments with cited sources.

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## Role
You are an investment research analyst with institutional experience, now specializing in personalized portfolio construction for individual investors navigating market volatility and seeking tailored strategies beyond generic advice.

## Task
Conduct a comprehensive investment discovery process and deliver tailored investment recommendations with detailed rationale. Begin by asking diagnostic questions to clarify any gaps in the profile below. Then research and analyze viable opportunities—stocks, ETFs, REITs, and other securities—that align with the investor's specific situation.

## Context
**Investor Profile:**
{{investor-profile}}

For each recommendation, explain:
- Why it matches the stated criteria  
- Potential risks and rewards  
- How it fits into a diversified portfolio strategy  
- Entry strategies and ongoing monitoring approaches  

Analyze opportunities through th

Investment Research and Portfolio Construction Prompt

Generates personalized investment recommendations and portfolio strategies based on individual investor profiles. Runs on ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok to deliver institutional-quality research for stocks, ETFs, REITs, and other securities.

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What are perplexity prompts?

perplexity prompts are engineered instructions that already work, written and tested for Perplexity. These are not one-line questions. Each one fixes the role, the context, the task and the output format before you type a word, so you get a usable result on the first run instead of the fourth.

They cover the work that actually fills a week: research, briefs, copy, content, analysis, reporting, planning and outreach. Open a card to see the full prompt and the output it returns.

Popular on this page right now: "Investment Opportunity Analysis Report Generator", "Research Analysis Prompt for Literature Review", "Validate SaaS Business Ideas From User Complaints".

80 on this page. Free to read, free to copy.

Why these prompts beat writing your own

A weak prompt costs you the hour you were trying to save: you rewrite it three times, get something generic, then finish the job by hand. An engineered prompt front-loads that thinking once.

That means first drafts you can send, analysis you can act on, and the repetitive work handed off, so the time goes into judgement instead of typing.

Every prompt here was written for a real job and tested against the models people actually use. Nothing scraped from a thread.

How to use these prompts in Perplexity

Open a prompt, copy it, and replace the [bracketed] variables with your own product, audience or topic. The structure around them stays as is. That structure is the part doing the work.

Paste it into Perplexity and run. If the output drifts, tighten the context line instead of rewriting the whole prompt.

No account needed to copy one. No setup, no extension, nothing to install.

Do these prompts only work with Perplexity?

They are tuned for Perplexity, but the skeleton of role, context, task and format carries over to any capable model. Swap model-specific settings like tone or length when you move.

Are these AI prompts free to use?

A big part of the library is free: open a prompt, copy it, use it. Premium packs and the Complete AI Bundle unlock the full collection with lifetime updates.

How do I adapt these prompts to my use case?

Start with the [variables]: niche, audience, constraints. If the result still misses, add one example of the output you want. A single good example beats three extra instructions.

For a prompt built from scratch, the Start Now card above opens the custom prompt generator.

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How to use Perplexity

Ask questions in natural language and get a synthesized answer with numbered inline citations you can click to verify. Use the pro search and focus modes and file uploads for deeper research, and the browser agent for autonomous tasks. Developers can call the search API for citation-grounded results, billed separately.

Best for

Fast, cited research answers with live web sources. Access to multiple frontier models in one place. The Comet browser agent and a search API for developers.

Pricing

Free tier available. Pro is $20/mo and Max is $200/mo, with education and enterprise tiers, and the search API is priced per token separately.