Integrations / Artificial Intelligence
Connect Perplexity AI to WhatsApp with an AI agent
Flann turns Perplexity AI into something you can message. Ask on WhatsApp, by text or voice note, and Flann does the work in Perplexity AI for you. Perplexity AI is an AI service. Flann can call it for you from WhatsApp as part of a bigger job.
9 actions in Perplexity AI. 7 only look things up, and 2 create, update, send or delete. You connect with your API key.
What you can ask Flann to do in Perplexity AI
You do not need the exact wording. These are the kinds of messages Flann turns into Perplexity AI actions.
“Look up the async chat completion in Perplexity AI.”
“Show me my models in Perplexity AI.”
“Create an async chat completion in Perplexity AI.”
What Flann can work with in Perplexity AI
Perplexity AI gives Flann 9 actions across 4 kinds of record. These are the ones you are most likely to use.
| Record | What Flann can do | Actions |
|---|---|---|
| Async chat completions | createlook up | 3 |
How the same job compares, in Perplexity AI directly and through Flann.
| Compare | Opening Perplexity AILog in, find it, do it | Perplexity AI through FlannAsk and get it done |
|---|---|---|
| Getting started on a job | Log in and click through the screens | Text or voice note, in your own words |
| Looking things up | By hand, screen by screen | 7 look-ups, answered straight away |
| Creating and updating | Typed in by hand | 2 changes, made from a message |
| Perplexity AI records | All of them, one screen at a time | 4 kinds, from one chat |
| Set-up | Nothing new to set up | Your Perplexity AI API key, once |
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Step by step: Perplexity AI jobs you can hand to Flann
How a request turns into real Perplexity AI actions, one step at a time.
Create an async chat completion from a voice note
- You message Flann on WhatsApp: “Create an async chat completion in Perplexity AI with these details.”
- Flann runs
List Async Chat Completionsin Perplexity AI and shows you what it found. - Flann runs
Create Async Chat Completionin Perplexity AI. - Flann creates it in Perplexity AI and confirms in the chat.
Get answers about your models
- You message Flann on WhatsApp: “What is the latest on our models in Perplexity AI?”
- Flann runs
List Modelsin Perplexity AI and shows you what it found. - Nothing in Perplexity AI is changed: these are look-ups, so they run straight away.
Check your chat completions from WhatsApp
- You message Flann on WhatsApp: “Show me where our chat completions in Perplexity AI stand.”
- Flann runs
Create Chat Completionin Perplexity AI and shows you what it found. - Nothing in Perplexity AI is changed: these are look-ups, so they run straight away.
Where Flann saves you time in Perplexity AI
Small jobs, repeated often, are where the time goes. Here is how they change once Perplexity AI is connected.
Translate a customer message properly
Today
A message arrives in a language you do not read. Copying it into a translator, writing a reply and translating it back takes several steps and some guesswork.
With Flann
“Translate this and help me reply politely in Portuguese.”
Flann uses Perplexity AI to translate the message and tells you in plain English what the customer wants. Your reply is drafted in their language, with an English version alongside so you know exactly what you are saying.
What you stop doing: Pasting messages between windows to understand a customer is over.
Checking an AI answer before it goes out
Today
AI tools sometimes state wrong things with great confidence. Checking every claim yourself defeats the point of using them.
With Flann
“Ask Perplexity AI what our returns policy should say, then check it against our current terms.”
Flann gets the draft from Perplexity AI and compares it with the policy text it can find in your connected apps. It marks anything that contradicts your terms or promises something you do not offer.
What you stop doing: Fact-checking AI output line by line is no longer yours alone.
More on this: how to hand repetitive tasks to an AI agent on WhatsApp.
How Flann connects to Perplexity AI
- Search for Perplexity AI in Flann’s Connectors.
- Paste your Perplexity AI API key into the secure form Flann opens. You will find the key in your Perplexity AI account settings.
- Ask Flann for what you need on WhatsApp, by text or voice note. It picks the right Perplexity AI action itself.
Of the 9 Perplexity AI actions, 7 only read. The other 2 create, update, send or delete. Disconnect Perplexity AI in Connectors whenever you like.
Ways to use Perplexity AI with Flann
One conversation, many tools
Ask Flann for the outcome. It decides when Perplexity AI is the right tool and uses it.
No new app to learn
You keep talking to Flann. Perplexity AI works in the background.
Results you can check
Anything Perplexity AI produces comes back to you in WhatsApp to review before you use it.
Everything Flann can do in Perplexity AI
Every Perplexity AI action Flann can run, split into what it reads and what it changes.
Looks up 7
- Create Chat Completion
- Create Contextualized Embeddings
- CreateEmbeddings
- Get Async Chat Completion
- List Async Chat Completions
- List Models
- Perplexity Search (Raw Results)
Changes 2
- Create Async Chat Completion
- Execute Agent
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Common questions
What can Flann do with async chat completions in Perplexity AI?
Flann can create and look up async chat completions in Perplexity AI, using 3 actions (Create Async Chat Completion, Get Async Chat Completion, List Async Chat Completions). Looking up runs straight away and changes nothing. The other actions create or change async chat completions in Perplexity AI.
How does Flann connect to Perplexity AI?
Open Connectors in Flann, choose Perplexity AI and paste your Perplexity AI API key into a secure form. You will find the key in your Perplexity AI account settings. Once it is connected, Flann can use 9 actions in Perplexity AI.
Do I need to open Perplexity AI to use it with Flann?
No. Once Perplexity AI is connected, you ask Flann on WhatsApp or in the Flann app, by text or voice note, and it does the work in Perplexity AI.
Is Perplexity AI included in my Flann plan?
Yes. Every Flann plan includes every app, Perplexity AI included.