The AI browser that might actually save you time: How Perplexity’s Comet could rescue your day from spreadsheet induced despair

Have you ever felt that creeping sense that your job is quietly being taken over by browser tabs?. One moment you're crafting a quarterly review, and the next you're twenty browser windows deep into CRM data, support logs, last quarter’s notes, and a rogue email thread titled “Final_FINAL_v3_USE_THIS_ONE”.

At some point, someone said AI would help. But most tools just seem to add more dashboards, more logins, and more reasons to question your career choices.

This week, I made the switch from Google Chrome to Perplexity’s Comet browser. It doesn’t promise to change your life. But it might make your working day a little less ridiculous. And frankly, that’s all some of us are asking for.

At the moment, I'm experimenting, but even in a few short days I have noticed things become just that little bit easier and more connected.

What is Comet?

Comet is a browser with Perplexity AI built-in and designed not to be clever for the sake of it, but to genuinely reduce friction. Real-time summaries of long articles, automated task execution, multi-tab synthesis, and contextual assistance as you go can now be done directly in the browser and flow of work, rather than having to open an AI tool separately, and provide it a list of links or content to work on.

Rather than throwing another platform at the wall and hoping it sticks, Comet is baked into your workflow. It works with the internet you already use, not in spite of it.

What does that mean in real life?

Let’s take a typical Client Success Manager or GTM operator’s day. You’re likely spending a lot of your non-client-facing time on:

With Comet, those same tasks are done faster, often automatically. Here’s what the early numbers from Perplexity show:

• CRM updates go from 20 mins to 5
• Reporting is halved, at least
• Email triage becomes a 10-minute job, not an all-morning one
• Research becomes painless – context is auto-summarised across tabs
• Context switching basically disappears (no more “where was I again?” syndrome)

On average, they saw a 67% reduction in time spent across a full CS workflow – which equates to over 2 hours saved per day. That’s not “nice to have”. That’s a real tangible improvement.

Now, that does also have to come with a caveat, that in your specific situation there may be access or integration hurdles to overcome, or internal usage policies to be aware of. But even with these taken into account it is likely to yield efficiencies for you.

But I’m cautious about AI…

...And rightly so. Many AI tools have been about as helpful as a chocolate teapot and take longer to learn that just doing the task yourself, but Comet doesn’t try to reinvent your workflow. It just tidies it up.

You see what it’s doing, you control how it works, and you can ignore it entirely when needed. It’s less “Black Mirror” and more “Clippy the paperclip, with a degree”.

Who’s it for?

Anyone who works across multiple platforms and lives in the land of:

• Slide decks, spreadsheets, and CRM notes
• External and internal meetings
• Context-heavy conversations
• Metrics and KPIs that move the needle for your client, but also your blood pressure

In particular:

• Client Success professionals who want to spend more time being strategic and less time copy-pasting notes
• GTM teams who can’t afford to waste time collating product, competitor, and market insights

3 things to try today (maybe without needing IT approval)

1. Download Comet and plug in your existing workflow It integrates directly with your current browser activity. No new system, no nonsense, and it looks almost exactly like Chrome, so nice and familiar.
2. Use real-time summarisation in your next QBR prep Feed it your past calls, notes, and Slack threads. Let it summarise the mess into something coherent. (NB: Consider data privacy policies in your organisation for this bit).
3. Try auto task execution during admin time Set up a workflow for CRM entry or follow-up email drafting.

Not every tool needs to change the world. Sometimes, it’s enough to make Tuesday just a bit less stressful.

Comet doesn’t promise miracles, but for those of us quietly screaming into spreadsheets, it's a small victory in the war against digital nonsense.

Have you already tried Comet or something similar? Let me know how you get on, and if you uncover any good tips, as I'm also still learning!