How to develop apps using Perplexity Labs?

The AI productivity engine turns complex projects into working assets without requiring a full team.

Perplexity AI has launched Labs, a new AI productivity agent designed to take projects from idea to execution with minimal user effort. Created for business professionals, marketers, and founders, Perplexity Labs functions as a full-stack digital assistant that can research, analyze, design, and code.

With 82 percent of white-collar workers reporting burnout, according to Staffing Industry Analysts, tools that reduce workload without sacrificing quality are becoming essential. Perplexity Labs aims to fill this need by generating reports, financial dashboards, interactive charts, and even functioning web apps from a single prompt.

What is Perplexity Labs?

Perplexity Labs is an AI-powered workspace that handles multi-step assignments from start to finish. Instead of returning one-off responses like a traditional chatbot, it completes full workflows and delivers ready-to-use assets. These include:

• Slide presentations
• Live financial dashboards
• Code bundles
• Interactive data visualizations
• Web widgets and demo apps

Labs combines web research, code execution, design generation, and structured formatting to create deliverables that would typically require input from multiple team members.

Why Labs feels more like a teammate than a tool

Traditional AI chatbots often feel like a smarter search engine. Perplexity Labs feels more like an extra pair of hands. The system stays visible as it works, allowing users to pause, skip, or refine individual tasks instead of waiting for a single response.

Completed materials are organized in an “Assets” panel. Users can download charts, spreadsheets, HTML files, or full presentations directly, without needing to juggle multiple platforms or file conversions.

What you can build with Perplexity Labs

Here are a few real-world examples of what users can create:

• Financial dashboards for small businesses
  Upload a sales CSV to generate interactive charts and a web-based dashboard that updates dynamically.
• Target account lists for B2B outreach
  Ask Labs to find U.S.-based startups pre-Series B, then compile a sortable table with contact details, company blurbs, and addresses.
• Creative story packs for media production
  Generate AI-drawn storyboards, a two-column screenplay, and mood board images for a short film concept.
• Property scouting kits for real estate planning
  Enter a budget and criteria, and receive a ranked list of ZIP codes, property listings, and commute-time maps.
• Internal presentations with live data
  Provide topic notes, and Labs can produce a slide deck with live charts that update as the source spreadsheet changes.

These examples illustrate how Labs can fluidly move between querying public data, writing Python code, generating charts, and bundling files, all within a single session.

How to get started with Labs

• Step 1: Visit Perplexity AI’s website and click the light bulb icon in the chat interface.
• Step 2: Enter a prompt describing what you want to create. Labs will begin researching, coding, and assembling the requested assets.
• Step 3: Once complete, click the “App” tab to interact with your generated mini app directly within the platform.

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