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Perplexity Plus+

Your Perplexity experience, upgraded.

🎯 Inspiration

We were inspired by tools like Refined GitHub, which enhance already-powerful platforms with thoughtful UX improvements. Perplexity AI provides exceptional search experiences, but there's untapped potential in tailoring those results to different user needs — from business users to academic researchers.

💡 What It Does

Perplexity Plus+ is a Chrome extension that enhances the Perplexity AI user interface with powerful export features tailored to different audiences:

• Business Users: Instantly export search results as polished PowerPoint presentations (PPTX) for board meetings.
• Researchers & Academics: Export search summaries into LaTeX-formatted documents for papers and journals.
• Future Extensibility: Supports modular agents (e.g., chart agent, report agent) to enable even more workflows.

⚙️ How We Built It

• Browser Extension: Built for Chrome, it layers seamlessly on top of Perplexity's UI.
• Event Listeners: Tracks user interactions to trigger appropriate actions.
• Server-Side Agents: When triggered, the extension calls Perplexity Plus+ agents (PPTX, LaTeX, etc.) to generate tailored outputs.
• Export UI: Integrated directly into Perplexity with an intuitive "Export with PPDX" option.

🚧 Challenges We Ran Into

• Integrating cleanly with a third-party UI without breaking user flow.
• Ensuring file exports are both useful and correctly formatted for their respective tools (Keynote, LaTeX viewers).
• Managing asynchronous data generation while preserving responsiveness.

🏆 Accomplishments We're Proud Of

• Created fully functional export pipelines for both business and academic workflows.
• Designed a plug-and-play agent system for easy future extensions.
• Enhanced usability for a broader audience without compromising the original Perplexity experience.

📚 What We Learned

• The importance of meeting users where they are — business users, researchers, and more all have different output needs.
• Chrome Extensions can be powerful augmentation layers over existing tools with minimal disruption.
• Small UX upgrades can significantly broaden the utility of existing AI products.

🚀 What's Next for Perplexity Plus+

• Firefox and Edge extension support.
• New agents: Chart generation, email report summaries, collaborative workspace integrations (e.g., Notion, Google Docs).
• Enhanced AI summarization settings: tone, depth, verbosity tuning.

Built With

• chrome
• docker
• flask
• javascript
• perplexity
• sonar