A Perplexity alternative for research you can act on
Perplexity made sourced answers mainstream, and for a quick question with citations it is excellent. The alternative people look for is deeper: long-form reports from a brief, the ability to choose which model writes them, research that includes your own documents, and reports that rerun themselves on a schedule.
Quick answers versus research runs
A sourced quick answer is one search and a summary. A research run plans the brief into sub-questions, searches each, reads the pages rather than the snippets, discards weak sources and writes a structured report with inline citations. It takes minutes instead of seconds and produces something you can hand to a colleague. Both are useful; they are different tools.
What is different here
You choose the model that runs and writes the research, so the same brief can be done with GPT, Claude or Gemini and compared. You can attach files or point the run at a Space with your documents, so internal material is used alongside the web. And a brief you will need again can be saved as a Skill or scheduled to rerun weekly, with the results landing in the workspace.
Where Perplexity still fits
For fast lookups during the day, a dedicated answer engine is hard to beat. The research tool here is for the questions where you would otherwise open twenty tabs.
How to do it in Vyndexo
Write the brief
Decision, scope, dimensions to compare, output shape. Paste it into Research.
Pick the model
Choose which chat model runs the research; cost is shown before the run.
Read with the sources open
Every citation is a link; open the ones behind the key claims.
Schedule or save
Rerun weekly with Scheduled Tasks, or save the brief as a Skill.
Common questions
Are the sources real and current?
Yes; the run reads live web pages and cites them with links and dates.
Can it use PDFs and internal docs?
Yes, attached to the run or stored in a Space.
How is it priced?
Per run from Tools credits, shown before you start; failures are not charged.