# How NationGraph uses Perplexity

**10,000 hours**: “10,000 hours”

As published on [perplexity.ai](https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/customers/nationgraph). Captured by usedby on 2026-10-27.

- Company: [NationGraph](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/nationgraph.md)
- Tool: [Perplexity](https://www.usedby.ai/tools/perplexity.md)
- Teams: Engineering

## 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.

Summary written by usedby from the source page, in English. The figures are those of Perplexity and NationGraph, not ours.

> 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.

- **500,000+**: “500,000+ queries: NationGraph has run over half a million Perplexity-backed research queries to date.”
- **350,000+**: “350,000+ Smart Columns: These queries power the automated research layers within the NationGraph Workspace.”
- **2 months**: “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.”
- **10x**: “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.”

> We really appreciate Perplexity's ability to cite back sources so that we can go and double-check results and verify information.
>
> Eden Ding, CTO of NationGraph

Source: [perplexity.ai](https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/customers/nationgraph), captured 2026-10-27.

## Other companies using Perplexity

- [AlixPartners](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/alixpartners.md) — Confirmed
- [Apollo.io](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/apolloio.md) — Confirmed
- [Bessemer Venture Partners](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/bessemer-venture-partners.md) — Confirmed
- [Clinikally](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/clinikally.md) — Confirmed
- [Combinely](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/combinely.md) — Confirmed
- [Findly](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/findly.md) — Confirmed

## What usedby checked

We compared the story with its live page on 2026-10-27.

- Checked: the figure 10,000 hours is printed word for word on the page, near the name of NationGraph.
- Checked: the passage quoted above is copied word for word from the page, near the name of NationGraph.
- Checked: NationGraph uses Perplexity. Confirmed line. Latest check across sources: 2026-10-27.
- Not checked: the result itself. We quote it; we did not measure it.

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Source: https://www.usedby.ai/case-studies/nationgraph-perplexity · How we check: https://www.usedby.ai/methodology