Business and Sales · Newsletter · 🇺🇸 United States · via agentusecases.ai
Journalist uses an AI browser to find sources on LinkedIn
Joanna Stern asked for posts from people laid off from customer service because of AI, plus draft messages.
- Profession
- Journalist, Writer
- Tools
- Perplexity Comet
- Country
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Found via
- agentusecases.ai (Alex Finn) ↗
- Report date
- no date
- Verified on
- October 25, 2026
What they did
While researching a book, Joanna Stern asked the Comet assistant to find posts by people laid off from customer service jobs because of AI and to draft messages to them. The agent combed through posts and comments and listed names.
How it went
She reports that the list was useful, but she reviewed every outreach message.
Good to know
When contacting sources, be transparent about who you are and why you're writing.
The prompt
I'm researching [topic] for [story/book]. Suggest where to find people with this experience and write a short, transparent and respectful message asking for a conversation.
Replace what is in [brackets]. Prompt written by us from the account, not a literal copy of the source. Do not paste other people’s personal data (privacy laws such as LGPD and GDPR apply).
Summary in our own words. Results as stated in the original account; we have not tested or audited them. Read the source ↗ Case found via agentusecases.ai (Alex Finn); text and prompt rewritten by us. Found a mistake?
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