What projects can you create with Perplexity Labs?

Perplexity Labs is a new AI-driven “creation engine” designed to tackle complex projects on your behalf. Think of it as taking Perplexity’s abilities beyond just Q&A and into the realm of actually doing the work, whether that’s generating a multi-page report, analyzing a dataset, producing charts, or even coding a simple web app for you. Labs doesn’t just give you an answer; it can produce whole outputs (documents, spreadsheets, images, even working mini-applications) as the end results. Under the hood, it uses a suite of advanced tools – it can perform deep web searches and “deep research” for information, write and execute code (for data processing or creating visualizations), and assemble everything into a final product. Essentially, Labs can handle tasks that would normally require a combination of researching, writing, and programming skills. If Perplexity’s normal mode is like asking a smart assistant, Labs is like hiring a whole team of analysts and developers for 10 minutes to complete a project for you.

So, what kind of projects can Perplexity Labs do?

A surprisingly wide variety. Here are a few examples of real use cases that Labs is built for:

• Data Analysis & Dashboards: Give Labs a dataset or a topic, and it can analyze the data and create visualizations or an interactive dashboard. For example, small business owners have used Labs to turn their financial CSV files into charts and a mini dashboard that highlights key metrics automatically.

• Research Reports: Labs excels at writing comprehensive reports on a topic, backed by sources. For instance, you can ask for an in-depth market analysis (marketing campaign plan, competitor analysis, etc.), and Labs will generate a multi-section report complete with figures and references. It’s like an extension of Research mode that not only finds information but also formats it into a polished report or presentation.

• Creative Content & Storyboarding: Labs can even tap into creative projects that involve text and images. One example: users have prompted Labs to develop a short story or film concept, and it produced a full narrative with storyboards (images) and a screenplay outline. It handled writing the story and using image generation to storyboard key scenes. This shows it can coordinate between writing and image creation.

• Personal Planning & Analysis: Have a complex personal decision or research task? Labs can help with that, too. For example, someone asked Labs to find the best areas to buy a house around New York, given specific criteria (budget, schools, low crime) – Labs researched the regions, analyzed crime stats and school data, and even compiled a table of the top 10 property options with details. That’s the kind of multi-step, multi-output task that would be tedious to do manually, but Labs can handle it end-to-end.

These examples barely scratch the surface. Other things people might do with Labs include: writing a detailed business plan, generating a competitive analysis with charts, creating a prototype web app (Labs can generate HTML/CSS/JS for simple apps) to showcase an idea, or even organizing a study guide with summaries of various sources on a topic. Crucially, you remain in control during a Labs project – you can watch the steps as they work, intervene by skipping or adjusting tasks, and add new instructions if the output is veering off course. This means the project stays aligned with your goals, and you’re not just blindly accepting whatever it does. All the files and results (like any code, charts, or images it creates) are collected in an Assets section for you to review and download, so you really get to take away usable work products at the end.

To use Labs, note that it’s currently a Pro-only feature (it takes a lot of computational effort). Pro subscribers get 50 Labs queries per month included with perplexity.ai, which is usually plenty unless you’re automating new projects daily. Accessing it is easy: just select “Labs” from the mode selector where you’d normally choose Search or Research, then enter your prompt describing what you want. One prompt is often all it needs to generate a full project, though you can refine with follow-ups. Given how much time it can save, Perplexity Labs is incredibly powerful for anyone who has a big task but not enough hours in the day – whether you’re a student trying to summarize research for a thesis, a professional who needs a report or analysis done, or a creator who wants to prototype an idea. Labs turns a multi-step project that might take you days into something you can achieve in a coffee break.

Have a project in mind that you’ve been dreading or putting off? Try handing it over to Perplexity Labs. Describe what you need (the clearer your instructions, the better) and watch as the AI builds it step by step. You’ll be amazed to see a report written, a dataset analyzed, or an app created before your eyes – all in a fraction of the time it would normally take. It’s productivity, supercharged. Give it a shot and let Labs bring your idea to life.