The use case: how NationGraph deploys Perplexity
NationGraph, an intelligence platform for businesses pursuing government contracts, uses Perplexity's Search API and Deep Research API as the research engine behind its product. Users run Smart Column queries across spreadsheets of government entities to pull verified, cited details from fragmented public sources.
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500,000+ queries: NationGraph has run over half a million Perplexity-backed research queries to date.
350,000+ Smart Columns: These queries power the automated research layers within the NationGraph Workspace.
2 months saved: Integrating Perplexity's search infrastructure saved the engineering team approximately two months of development time that it would have taken to build a custom web agent.
While other, more expensive models might take 20 minutes to produce a lengthier report, Perplexity delivered high-fidelity results 10x faster, in two to three minutes.
In the customer’s words
We really appreciate Perplexity's ability to cite back sources so that we can go and double-check results and verify information.Other companies using Perplexity
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Perplexity delivered high-fidelity results 10x faster, in two to three minutes. That made it commercially viable for NationGraph to integrate Perplexity so that its users can use Perplexity directly in its product.