Connect Ask to Perplexity and automate your tasks

Why integrate Ask with Perplexity

The Ask to Perplexity integration helps you sync data, automate manual tasks, and keep your stack aligned — without writing code.

Answer customer and team questions with live data from your store

When a question comes in — about a product, an order status, a policy — MESA pulls the relevant Shopify data and passes it to Perplexity to generate a clear, accurate answer. Your team and your customers get responses grounded in what's actually in your store right now.

Research competitors and market trends without leaving your workflow

When a Shopify product, collection, or pricing decision is flagged for review, MESA triggers a Perplexity search and delivers the findings to your team through Slack, Google Docs, or Airtable. Your decisions are informed by current market context without manual research interrupting the workday.

Enrich order and customer records with real-world context

When a new B2B customer or wholesale account places their first Shopify order, MESA passes their details to Perplexity to research the company and appends the findings to their record. Your team knows who they're dealing with before the first follow-up.

Build any Ask and Perplexity automation

MESA helps you connect apps to automate repetitive tasks. A trigger is an event that starts a workflow, and actions are the steps that occur when it's running.

Create Chat Completion

Create a chat completion.

• Model
• Role
• Prompt
• Search Mode
• Reasoning Effort
• Max Tokens
• Temperature
• Top P
• Search Domain Filter
• Return Images
• Return Related Questions
• Search Recency Filter
• Search After Date Filter
• Search Before Date Filter
• Last Updated After Filter
• Last Updated Before Filter
• Top K
• Stream
• Presence Penalty
• Frequency Penalty
• Disable Search
• Enable Search Classifier

Ask

Use AI and a friendly yeti to answer questions with your data.

• Content

Expert support included

MESA includes hands-on support from automation experts who know how to get things done.

Free workflow setup

We'll build your first workflow with you live. Most merchants walk away with automation saving 5+ hours/week.

Fast response times

Average first response: Same day. Critical issues: Immediate escalation. Complex builds: 24-48 hours.

Managed services available

Personalized workflow reviews, and quarterly check-ins to identify new opportunities as your business grows.

Real humans, always

Chat with real automation experts (not bots). Email support 9am-5pm PST. Google Meet sessions for complex workflows.

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