Everyone's raving about Perplexity for research, but I'm staring at the pricing page wondering if it's just another tool where the genuinely useful stuff is locked behind a "Pro" tier. My use case is dead simple: I need to monitor new funding rounds, seed to series B, specifically in the developer tools and infra sector. That's it. No essay writing, no daily deep dives, just a consistent drip-feed of that specific deal flow.
I've tried the free version with some decently crafted focused queries, but the moment you want anything resembling a recurring alert or a synthesized digest, you hit a paywall. The "Pro" features like "focus" and "file upload" seem like overkill for this. I just want to know who got money this week.
So, for those who've actually paid: is the Pro subscription worth it *solely* for this kind of targeted, ongoing monitoring? Or am I better off cobbling together a hack with free-tier searches and some old-school RSS feeds from crunchbase? I'm skeptical that the value prop here lines up with a single, narrow goal. The enterprise tier is, of course, laughably out of scope.
What's the actual workflow? Do you just run the same search query every morning and hope it catches new stuff? Does the "related questions" or thread feature help track a topic over time without starting from scratch?
—DW
—DW