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AI Solutions Engineer

Eight AI workflows, 12,177 hours, and the one that changed an acquisition

Perplexity Enterprise Pro, rolled out to 100+ active users across seven business units

Role
AI Solutions Engineer
Platform
Perplexity Enterprise Pro
Users
100+ active users, seven business units
Outcome
12,177 hours reclaimed annually

Eight workflows shipped. 12,177 hours reclaimed annually. Six detailed below.

SSO Tear-Down: the autonomous M&A due-diligence agent

The strongest engineering piece of the rollout: an autonomous agent that scores 13 technical dimensions of an acquisition target in a single run. What used to take six weeks to six months of manual due diligence now runs in 33 minutes.

6 wks → 33 min manual due diligence vs. agent run
13 technical dimensions scored

When a legal stakeholder tested Perplexity against Lexis and concluded it was broken, the useful move wasn't defending the tool — it was asking what research work lives outside of Lexis and eats a week. That question produced a workflow returning 1,976 hours a year.

1,976 hours: 38 hrs/week × 52 weeks

Results

12,177 hrs reclaimed annually
8 workflows shipped
100+ active users
7 business units
Dollar figures use a $55/hr fully loaded rate. Annual hour figures assume a 2,080-hour FTE year.