The Blueprint of Creation

Perplexity will follow a structure, and the structure worth asking for is a sourced comparison table - that is exactly what an answer engine is good at. So the blueprint here is a research blueprint: columns you want filled with cited facts, one row per option. Use it for the EV comparison and the market figures; do not use it for the creative template.

• Ask for a comparison table with a citation per cell.
• Specify city and date so figures are local and current.
• Say 'mark unavailable as unavailable' to stop padding.
• Keep project sources in one Space.
• Use it for the facts; draft the prose elsewhere.

I am a first-time car buyer in Hyderabad, driving about 50 km a day in the city, comparing a hatchback EV with an equivalent petrol hatchback. Give me current, sourced numbers in this structure.

Table 1 - Upfront: rows for two or three currently available comparable hatchback models in each category; columns Model | Fuel | On-road price in Hyderabad | Date of price | Source.

Table 2 - Running cost per km: columns Input | Value | Date | Source. Include current petrol price in Hyderabad, domestic electricity tariff in Telangana, public fast-charging tariff, claimed and real-world range or mileage. Then show the per-km cost you derive for each and the arithmetic.

Table 3 - Five-year ownership: columns Cost head | EV | Petrol | Source. Include fuel/charging at 50 km a day, scheduled servicing, insurance, road tax and any state incentive currently in force in Telangana.

Then in prose, with citations: what is the current public-charging situation in Hyderabad, and what do owners report about charging from an apartment?

Rules: cite every cell. Where a figure is genuinely unavailable, write 'unavailable' - do not substitute a national average for a Hyderabad figure without saying so. Give the date of every price. Save this to a Space called 'Car purchase'.

Perplexity cannot write your internal Q3 report - it has no access to your campaign data, and this is a blueprint-filling task for a writing tool. Use it for the step before: finding out whether your numbers are any good.

My Q3 results from an Indian D2C campaign: website visits 150,000 (up from 110,000), conversion rate 5% (up from 3.5%), 7,500 leads, total spend ₹5,00,000, so roughly ₹67 per lead. Instagram Ads performed best, Google Ads mid, Facebook Ads worst.

Research and answer in this structure:

1. Benchmarks table: columns Metric | Indian D2C benchmark | Range | Period covered | Source. Cover conversion rate, cost per lead, cost per click and CTR for Instagram, Google and Facebook advertising in India.
2. Verdict per metric: for each of my figures, is it above, at or below the benchmark - and state how confident the comparison is, given the source.
3. Facebook underperformance: what do current sources say about Facebook ad performance for Indian D2C brands relative to Instagram right now, and what reasons are given?
4. What is missing: which metrics do these benchmark sources use that I have not captured, and should start tracking?

Cite everything with dates. Where only global benchmarks exist, label them global rather than passing them off as Indian. I will write the actual report in another tool using your benchmarks as the comparison column.

This one is not a job for Perplexity. Generating story concepts is open-ended creative work with no sources to cite - ask here and you will get a competent, heavily footnoted list of fantasy cliches. Draft the concepts in ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini.

What Perplexity is genuinely good for is the research that makes a concept specific rather than generic. Ask it this first:

1. Which non-European mythologies and folklore traditions are currently underused in published English-language fantasy? For each, name two or three specific figures, creatures or cosmological ideas a novelist could build on, and point me to a reliable source on each rather than a listicle.
2. What is currently selling in fantasy - which subgenres have recent commercial success in India and internationally, and which are described as saturated? Cite publishing trade sources with dates.
3. Which recent fantasy novels by Indian or South Asian authors are being discussed, and what are they drawing on? Use Social focus for reader discussion and tell me where it came from.
4. For two traditions from answer 1: what does the primary scholarship actually say, as opposed to the popular internet version? Flag common misrepresentations - I would rather not build a world on a mistake.

Then take that material to a writing tool and have it fill a concept template using the specific traditions you found.