Work & OperationsDone with Perplexity Comet 2026-10-14
Test AI browser agents on real workday tasks
The author ran Comet and another agent through real workday tasks like booking a flight and handling calendar chaos; one took 16 minutes to book while the other did the calendar work in about 5.
- What They Did
- The author ran eight everyday workday tests on Comet and on OpenAI's Operator, giving both the same tasks. They included rescheduling a meeting and drafting the follow-up email from a sidebar, finding a restaurant, sifting LinkedIn contacts affected by layoffs, and pulling insights from Amazon filings. The detailed per-test results are paywalled.
- How It Went
- The free portion says Comet delivered, handling calendar chaos in minutes, while Operator was slow and clumsy. The 16-minute flight booking and the full side-by-side are in the paid section, which I couldn't read.
- Worth Knowing
- The post says the tool costs $200/month, so the author recommends testing it on your own real work and checking the time saved before paying.
Try it yourself with Perplexity Comet
Help me test you on real work tasks: first, find and compare flights from [origin] to [destination] on [date] and get as far as the checkout page without paying; second, look at my calendar for [week] and propose a fix for any conflicts or double-bookings. Tell me how long each task took and where you got stuck. Pause and ask me before submitting any form, sending any invite, or changing any calendar event.
Do this with a skill.
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