Connect Clay to Perplexity
Give Perplexity governed access to Clay’s 21 tools through Runlayer, with identity, policy, scanning, and audit on every call.
Set up
Add Clay to Perplexity in four steps
Admins approve the server once. Everyone in Perplexity then gets it through the same governed connection.
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Approve Clay in Runlayer
Add Clay from the catalog and choose who can use it and which of its tools are allowed.
- 2
Connect Perplexity to Runlayer
Users add the Runlayer Plugin to Perplexity by following Runlayer’s setup guide. Perplexity reaches Clay’s 21 tools through the Runlayer Plugin’s search and execute tools instead of listing each one.
Perplexity setup guide - 3
Sign in to Clay
Sign in the way Clay requires. Runlayer holds the credentials so they stay out of the client’s configuration.
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Use Clay from Perplexity
Clay’s approved tools appear in Perplexity. Every call is checked against policy and recorded.
Tools
21 Clay tools in Perplexity
Runlayer policy decides which of these Perplexity users can call. 12 read data only and 3 can change or delete data.
Add company data points
Add data points to companies in an existing search.
Add contact data points
Add data points to contacts in an existing search.
Ask question about accounts
Ask a natural language question about one or more accounts available in Clay Audiences.
Find and enrich company
Find and enrich a single company by domain or LinkedIn URL.
Find and enrich contacts at company
Search for contacts at a company by role, title, name, or department.
Find and enrich list of contacts
Find and enrich specific named contacts at their companies.
Get credits available
Check if credits are available for the workspace.
Get current workspace
Report which Clay workspace this connection is pinned to.
Control
What Runlayer can see and stop in Perplexity
Some controls apply to every client at the gateway. Others depend on what Perplexity exposes to Runlayer.
Gateway policy (available)
Every Clay call from Perplexity passes through Runlayer, where your policies can allow, alert, mask, or block it.
Audit trail (available)
Each call is recorded with the user, Perplexity as the client, the tool, and the policy and scanner decisions.
Managed browser extension (available)
Managed Chrome, Edge, and Firefox deployments can monitor supported web-chat activity and apply prompt-time controls where the surface permits it.
Native enforcement adapter (not available)
Runlayer has no device-side adapter for Perplexity yet, so control happens at the gateway.
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