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☕🤖Tutorial: The AI Opportunity Engine: Find Leads + Trends Daily

PLUS: everything you need + all prompts inside...

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The AI Break, Rui Sousa, and Luis Sousa
Feb 03, 2026
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Hey AI Breakers 👋 Most people don’t have a “marketing problem”.

They have an opportunity problem.

They’re always late to:

  • new trends

  • new distribution channels

  • new partners

  • new lead lists

  • new angles that are working right now

So they end up reacting… instead of printing plays.

In today’s guide, you’ll build a Daily Opportunity Scout using Perplexity + ChatGPT that finds:

✅ fresh lead opportunities
✅ trending topics and distribution plays
✅ competitor moves worth copying
✅ partnership ideas
✅ content angles you can ship today

All in 10–15 minutes per day.

Let’s build it 👇


🧠 Why This Works (Perplexity + ChatGPT = perfect combo)

Think of it like this:

Perplexity = the Scout

  • finds fresh web signals

  • cites sources

  • summarizes what’s happening now

ChatGPT = the Strategist

  • turns signals into plays

  • prioritizes

  • generates scripts, messages, and next steps

Perplexity answers: What’s happening?
ChatGPT answers: What do we do with it?


🧱 Step 0 → Set Your “Opportunity Filters” (so you don’t get noise)

Before you run daily scouting, define what “opportunity” means for you.

Pick 1–2 focus areas (max):

  • leads (companies or people to contact)

  • content (topics to post about)

  • partnerships (who to collaborate with)

  • product ideas (gaps worth building)

  • competitor plays (what to copy ethically)

You’ll feed these into the prompts below.


🔎 Prompt #1 (Perplexity) — The Daily Signal Sweep

This first prompt is designed to pull fresh signals across your niche without doomscrolling.

You’re looking for:

  • companies spending money now

  • teams hiring now

  • new launches

  • new regulations

  • funding

  • new tech releases

  • viral angles

  • rising keywords

✅ Run this daily (or 3x/week).

Perplexity Prompt:

You are my daily opportunity scout.

My niche:[insert niche]

My offer (optional):[what you sell / do]

Find the most important opportunities from the last 24–72 hours across:
-- Lead opportunities (companies/teams likely to buy)
-- Trend opportunities (topics that are rising fast)
-- Competitor moves (new offers, pricing, positioning, distribution)
-- Partnership opportunities (who is collaborating with who)
-- “Plays” (tactics working right now in this niche)

Rules:
- Give me 12–20 bullets total
- Each bullet must include:
--- what happened (1 sentence)
--- why it matters (1 sentence)
--- source link
- Prioritize actionable signals, not general news.

💡 Tip: Add “in [country]” if you want geo-specific leads.


🧲 Prompt #2 (Perplexity) → The Lead Hunter (high intent only)

Now we go from “signals” to people and companies to contact.

This is where you find intent triggers:

  • hiring roles related to your offer

  • new funding

  • expanding to new markets

  • launching new products

  • publicly complaining about a problem you solve

✅ Run this daily if you’re doing outbound, or 2–3x/week otherwise.

Perplexity Prompt:

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