Here's how to analyze any business idea with Perplexity
Go to Perplexity and sign in
Click + > Deep Research > enter your prompt
Sample Prompt:
I'm evaluating this startup idea: [paste idea]. Act like a top-tier VC and startup operator, and create a concise 10-slide investment-style analysis that determines whether this idea is worth pursuing. Cover the market opportunity (TAM/SAM/SOM), ICP and pain point, competitors and pricing, market trends, SWOT analysis, product differentiation, V1 build cost and tooling stack, ideal founding team, GTM strategy for the first 100 customers, biggest risks, and a 30/60/90-day roadmap.
Use modern visual presentation style with charts, tables, and concise executive-level insights instead of long paragraphs. Quantify assumptions where possible, include contrarian risks and reasons the idea may fail, cite every important claim using recent sources from the last 12 months, and end with a brutally honest Green/Yellow/Red verdict on whether a founder should spend the next 5 years building this.
You’ll get detailed analysis of your business idea within minutes
Pro Tip: Create a dedicated Space for startup ideas and save this as the default instruction. Then you can reuse the same workflow for every new idea instead of rebuilding it each time