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# What Perplexity and Comet do to you | Am I Ready for Agents?

> What Perplexity and its Comet browser do to your business today: shopping checkout for PayPal merchants and an assistant that acts in the user's own browser.

Source: https://amireadyforagents.com/guides/what-perplexity-comet-does-to-your-business
Site: Am I Ready for Agents?
Last reviewed: 2026-11-04

# What Perplexity and Comet do to your business today

## In short

Perplexity answers questions with shopping results from PayPal merchants that it can check out in chat, and its Comet browser, free to everyone since 2 October 2025, runs an assistant that can act in any tab for the user. Comet acts inside the user's own session, so your site sees a person's browser rather than a labelled bot.

## What it means for you

-   If you take PayPal and your catalogue is synced, you can be found and paid inside Perplexity, with you as merchant of record.
-   Comet's assistant works in the user's own browser, so it reaches you as that user's session, not through an integration. Bot rules that only target labelled agents will not see it.
-   PerplexityBot and Perplexity-User are the names to check in your robots.txt and bot protection.
-   A page an agent cannot read costs you the same here as anywhere: the answer is built without you.

## What the evidence says

Tell a leader what Perplexity's shopping and its Comet browser can do on their site now.

-   4 Nov 2026
    
    In the network's own crawl, run of 4 Nov 2026 (13,071 of 13,071 domains from Tranco list 746WX plus Ora leaderboard domains), 7.9 percent of sites with a readable robots.txt disallowed PerplexityBot and 5.9 percent disallowed Perplexity-User at the root.
    
    [Scorecard methodology: the crawl of 4 Nov 2026](https://amireadyforagents.com/scorecards/methodology), read 4 Nov 2026
    
-   8 Oct 2026
    
    Ora's lab found (8 Oct 2026) that answers built without reading the site were 3.7 times as likely to miss every fact asked for (25 percent versus 7 percent).
    
    Vendor claim. [Ora research: AX is the new AEO (8 Oct 2026)](https://ora.ai/blog/ax-is-the-new-aeo?utm_source=amireadyforagents.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=guide), read 4 Nov 2026
    
-   26 Nov 2025
    
    PayPal merchants can be discovered and paid inside Perplexity since November 2025, with the retailer as merchant of record.
    
    [PayPal: agentic shopping with Perplexity (Nov 2025)](https://newsroom.paypal-corp.com/2025-11-PayPal-Launches-Agentic-Shopping-with-Perplexity), read 4 Nov 2026
    
-   26 Nov 2025
    
    PayPal says its store sync makes catalogs discoverable in Perplexity and its agent ready service lets merchants accept payment using their existing PayPal setup.
    
    Vendor claim. [PayPal: agentic shopping with Perplexity (Nov 2025)](https://newsroom.paypal-corp.com/2025-11-PayPal-Launches-Agentic-Shopping-with-Perplexity), read 4 Nov 2026
    
-   2 Oct 2025
    
    Perplexity made Comet available to everyone on 2 October 2025; its assistant can act in any new tab.
    
    [Perplexity: Comet available to everyone (2 Oct 2025)](https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/comet-is-now-available-to-everyone-worldwide), read 4 Nov 2026
    

## Related

-   [Which AI bots to let in](https://amireadyforagents.com/decisions/which-bots-to-allow)Four kinds of visitor, four choices.
-   [AI agents and ecommerce](https://amireadyforagents.com/for/ecommerce)Dated examples and the asks for the web team.
-   [The self-check](https://amireadyforagents.com/self-check)Eighteen questions scored in your browser.

## Sources

1.  [Scorecard methodology: the crawl of 4 Nov 2026](https://amireadyforagents.com/scorecards/methodology) (amireadyforagents.com/scorecards/methodology), read 4 Nov 2026.
2.  [Ora research: AX is the new AEO (8 Oct 2026)](https://ora.ai/blog/ax-is-the-new-aeo?utm_source=amireadyforagents.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=guide) (ora.ai/blog/ax-is-the-new-aeo), read 4 Nov 2026. Vendor claim.
3.  [PayPal: agentic shopping with Perplexity (Nov 2025)](https://newsroom.paypal-corp.com/2025-11-PayPal-Launches-Agentic-Shopping-with-Perplexity) (newsroom.paypal-corp.com/2025-11-PayPal-Launches-Agentic-Shopping-with-Perplexity), read 4 Nov 2026.
4.  [Perplexity: Comet available to everyone (2 Oct 2025)](https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/comet-is-now-available-to-everyone-worldwide) (perplexity.ai/hub/blog/comet-is-now-available-to-everyone-worldwide), read 4 Nov 2026.
5.  [Sector scorecards dataset, edition 4 Nov 2026](https://amireadyforagents.com/scorecards) (amireadyforagents.com/scorecards), read 4 Nov 2026.

Last reviewed 4 November 2026

Reviewed 4 November 2026. [5 sources](#sources), each with the day it was read.