Pre-meeting lead research agent with Calendly, Perplexity & RapidAPI

Who's it for

Sales teams, BDRs, account managers, and customer success professionals who want to show up prepared for every meeting. Perfect for anyone using Calendly who wants to automate prospect research and never walk into a call blind again.

Watch the full tutorial here:

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What it does

This workflow automatically researches your meeting attendees the moment they book through Calendly. It combines multiple AI agents to gather comprehensive intelligence:

- Company Research: Uses Perplexity AI to validate company details, recent news, funding, leadership changes, and business signals - LinkedIn Analysis: Leverages RapidAPI to analyze the person's profile, recent posts, comments, and engagement patterns from the last 60-90 days - Signal Detection: Identifies hiring signals, growth indicators, and potential risks with confidence scoring - Meeting Prep: Synthesizes everything into personalized talking points, conversation starters, and strategic recommendations

The final research brief gets delivered directly to your Slack, saving 30-45 minutes of manual research per meeting.