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Getting Started with Perplexity

Ask Perplexity a real question, read the answer it gives you, and open the page behind the one claim you would act on. Starts from zero.

  • Beginner
  • 18 lessons
  • 29 min to complete
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What it covers

What your people will learn.

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An AI states a wrong fact in the same calm voice it uses for a right one. Perplexity is the tool built so that telling them apart costs one click.

It searches the web while you wait, writes the answer, and keeps the pages it read attached to the claims it makes. That is what people mean by an answer engine, and it is why this is the tool to open when being wrong has a cost: a figure going into a proposal, a date going to a client, a price you are about to quote.

Most first sessions disappoint for one reason. People type keywords out of fifteen years of search habit, get a flat answer back, and conclude the tool is nothing special. This course fixes the asking first, then the reading, then the three controls that matter and the free allowances that make them worth choosing on purpose.

You walk away able to ask a whole question, read a sourced answer in three moves, and judge in one second whether a job belongs here or in a chatbot.

Who it's for

Anyone who has never opened it: no experience assumed, no jargon, and the words "model" and "mode" are explained where they first appear.

Chatbot users who got burned: you already know what a confident wrong answer costs. This is the tool that makes the next one cheap to catch.

Owners and consultants quoting real numbers: prices, rates and dates that go out under your name, with the page behind each one.

The lessons

18 lessons, in order.

About 29 min to complete. Add the course and every lesson is yours to publish as it is, or to edit.

  1. Every Answer Shows Its Sources1 min
  2. Three Tools That Look Alike2 min
  3. What a Source Buys You1 min
  4. Explain It to a Skeptic3 min
  5. What an Answer Engine Does Knowledge Check1 min
  6. Ask It Something You Actually Need1 min
  7. Rewrite Five Clipped Queries6 min
  8. Read the Answer and Its Pages1 min
  9. Follow Up in the Same Session1 min
  10. Ask and Read Knowledge Check1 min
  11. Pick the Search Mode1 min
  12. Which Model Writes the Answer1 min
  13. Three Pro Searches and a Deadline3 min
  14. The Controls Knowledge Check1 min
  15. Do You Ever Need to Pay1 min
  16. Which Tool for Which Job1 min
  17. Ask One Real Question This Week2 min
  18. Paying and Choosing Knowledge Check1 min

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    Your brand

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    Practice

    Practice and the tutor come with it

    Type / in any lesson to add practice, from explain it back to drills and scenarios. Your people can ask the AI tutor about any lesson.

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