- The AI Chatbot of Perplexity will find and reserve restaurant tables via Opentable
- The conversational approach rationalizes the process of making requests for the details of the location and when it has an opening
- Perplexity hopes that integration will encourage people to stay on the platform rather than having to leave to accomplish a task
The Ai Perplexity search engine wants to do more than just find your next restaurant; He wants to reserve your table. Perplexity has concluded an agreement with openable to integrate the booking tool into perplexity. Instead of simply providing links to restaurants to help you book a table, you can get a place in more than 60,000 openable restaurants in the conversation.
The first part of the process is the same as before in perplexity. Ask “a silent Thai place in Brooklyn which is good for vegetarians and which has outdoor seats”, and this will serve a filtered list of options that correspond to your decoration, your food needs and the atmosphere. If you see a location in which you want to get available via openable, there will be a “book” button when you want to go, and you are finished. Instead of moving from research to booking, you now get everything in a conversation.
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The agreement encourages people to stay on perplexity to make their plans for dinner, in part of a larger trend where AI platforms try not only to provide information, but complete tasks. The reservation of a table may seem a small thing, but the magic lies in the collapse of all the invisible steps between wanting to find a place to go and do it.
The normal route can involve half an hour of navigation, second guess and refreshing opening to see what is still available. With the new Perplexity system, you describe the scenario and watch it resolve. Under the hood, the Openable AI concierge manages most of the work. It is based on the metadata of each restaurant, including menus, seats arrangements and all labels attached to its list on openable, and uses it to give more precise recommendations for perplexity.
Perplexity shows the restaurant, the hours available, then manages the reservation itself, with confirmation and any option to modify or cancel. He is not an autonomous agent like the Chatgpt agent mode. It smooths the way between the two services but does not travel between them as an agent would.
This is probably for the better, because perplexity can sometimes misunderstand your request or too much promise on the incomplete, but open -up database will not reserve you a table that is not available. And although the openable restaurant profiles are generally rich in detail, they always count on restaurants to keep the right things.
From the point of view of Openable, it is a distribution movement. Putting their booking infrastructure in the Perplexity flow gives them access to a new set of users. Instead of trying to draw attention to a crowded, open-up application race becomes part of a platform that people already use. While AI assistants continue to evolve, expect more from these seamless transfers between research, decision and action. Reservation of a table could be the beginning; Better to book your place now.
