Can Perplexity Make Phone Calls? How to Set It Up
Yes. Copy this prompt into Perplexity. That’s it. It sets up Carly, phone number included, and Perplexity can look something up and then call about it, from your business number.
Carly business setup prompt
Copy this into Perplexity. It sets everything up, phone number included.
Help me connect Carly Teams to this chat: read https://carlyassistant.com/team/mcp.txt and follow it. If you can't open links, tell me how to add https://carlyassistant.com/team/mcp to you as a custom MCP connector, then I'll sign in.
What Perplexity can do with Carly
- Find it, then call it. “Find three plumbers near 14 Elm Street with Saturday openings, call the best-rated one and book a quote.”
- Call new leads in under a minute. Someone fills out your form and Carly calls them with their answers in hand. Miss the call? They get a text.
- Answer your phone 24/7. Or only when your team doesn’t pick up. In English or Spanish, whichever the caller speaks.
- Book the meeting while they’re on the line, right onto your team’s real Google and Outlook calendars.
- Send texts, reminders and group texts. “Text tomorrow’s appointments a reminder.” Everyone gets their own.
- Let you watch a live call and steer it. Type “ask if Friday works” and the agent asks.
- Log everything. Every call, transcript and text lands in one team inbox and your CRM.
- Work with your other tools. Carly connects to thousands of apps, and every call can kick off a workflow.
Same prompt works in ChatGPT, Claude, Meta Muse, Grok and Grok Bot.
FAQ
Can Perplexity make phone calls?
Yes. Copy the prompt above into Perplexity and it calls, texts and answers your business line through Carly.
What number does Perplexity call from?
Your business number in Carly, which you get during setup.
Can Perplexity research before it calls?
Yes. It looks the business or person up, then the agent calls in the same chat.
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See what people say
"Before Carly, I relied on a Calendly link, but the whole process felt impersonal and not very professional. Carly changed that by handling all the back-and-forth, so I'm no longer stuck in endless email threads trying to line up schedules.
Now Carly reaches out to candidates, shares my real-time availability, lets them pick a slot, then sends a Zoom link and drops it straight into my calendar. She sends reminders to both of us before each call, which has significantly reduced no-shows and last-minute confusion.
On top of scheduling, Carly acts like a full executive assistant, sending me my schedule the night before so I can prepare for each call. It reminds me of the old x.ai assistant, but Carly is noticeably smarter, faster, and better suited to my healthcare recruitment business."
