CometStrawberry vs Comet
Comet is a Chromium browser with the Comet Assistant in a side panel beside it. An assistant beside your work is still you doing the work. The pile refills every Monday: thirty applications, each one the same twenty minutes of your attention. So the week goes the way it always goes. You open one, you judge it, you write your note, then you open the next one and do it again. Strawberry is the browser, so your AI companion works through the whole pile at once, inside the tool it lives in. What comes back is the shortlist, with a reason on every name.
| What you are weighing | Strawberry | Comet |
|---|---|---|
| Thirty applications on a Monday | Your AI companion opens all thirty, reads each one against what you actually care about, and works through many at the same time. | Perplexity documents Shortcuts as custom, reusable prompts you trigger by typing a slash, and entering one does not run it. |
| Where your standards live | In the AI companion, corrected once in passing and kept for next Monday, rather than retyped into the prompt box. | Perplexity documents Shortcuts pointed at specific sources such as tabs and files, and combinable with each other. |
| What it can work inside | Any site your own login opens, including the applicant tracker, the shared sheet and the internal wiki with no public API. | Perplexity documents personal search over your browsing history, tab management by natural language command, and a Gmail connector for email and calendar questions. |
| Where the shortlist gets written | 2,000+ integrations, so the shortlist lands in your hiring tool with a note on every name, and the rejections wait in your drafts. | Perplexity documents the Comet Assistant running alongside the main window in a side panel. |
| Who sets what it may do | You set every connected action to ask, always allow, or off, and it stays that way until you change it. | Perplexity documents enterprise organisation admins deciding whether the Comet Assistant may control the browser and act on a member's behalf. |
| What an approval looks like | An editor showing the recipient, the exact text and the attachments, all of it changeable before anything sends. | Perplexity documents an always allow option so actions run without confirmation, and setting a domain to browser control or read only. |
| Monday starting without you | Save it once, give it a schedule or a trigger, every run records what it did and what it cost, and the AI companion can be handed over. | Not documented in the sources cited on this page. |
A saved prompt is still something you have to sit and run.
Think about the pile that refills while you sleep.
Say it is the thirty applications that came in this week, waiting on you for your hiring manager. Each one needs the CV read, the portfolio opened, and a judgement on whether they have shipped anything real.
None of it is difficult. It is the same twenty minutes, thirty times, inside a hiring tool you have to be logged in to see.
Perplexity documents Shortcuts as custom, reusable prompts you trigger by typing a slash, pointed at sources such as tabs and files, and it documents that entering a shortcut does not run it. That saves the typing. The thirty applications are still thirty applications, and you are still the one sitting there.
Strawberry takes the pile instead. Your AI companion opens all thirty, reads each one against what you actually care about, and works through many at the same time rather than one after another.
The shortlist should be written where your hiring manager already looks.
Your AI companion reads the applications inside your applicant tracker, using your own account. The portfolio links, the shared sheet and the internal wiki open the same way. None of it needs a public API, only a login you already have.
That is also why it reaches 2,000+ integrations rather than a shortlist of connectors. Six names arrive in your hiring tool with a note on each. The rejections sit in your drafts. Your hiring manager gets the summary in the channel she reads on Monday.
Perplexity documents its own routes into your work. Comet includes personal search over your browsing history, natural language browser commands for tab management, a Gmail connector for email and calendar questions, and buttons to ask about or summarise the page you are on.
Your standards should live in the AI companion, not be retyped into the prompt box.
The reason screening is slow is not the reading.
It is that good judgement is specific, and specific judgement is long to explain.
You want the ones who shipped something, not the ones who listed a framework. You forgive a short stint at an agency. You always check whether the portfolio link still resolves.
A prompt has to say all of that again every time it runs. Your AI companion holds it, because it is the same teammate every week. You correct it once, in passing, and the correction is kept for next Monday.
That is also why the shortlist reads like yours. It has read your last three hires, the role you wrote, and the two candidates you rejected and later regretted.
You should decide what it may do action by action, not only which sites it may touch.
Reading an application, drafting a rejection, sending it and changing a candidate's stage are four different amounts of risk. Strawberry treats them as four separate decisions.
Every connected action is set to ask, always allow, or off, and it stays that way until you change it. Let it draft rejections all day. Require approval before any of them send. Switch payments off and they stay off.
Approval opens a real editor rather than a yes or no box. You see the recipient, the exact text and the attachments, and you can change any of it first. A reply shows the address it resolved, and it never quietly copies the rest of the thread.
Perplexity documents a different shape of control. Enterprise organisation admins decide whether the Comet Assistant may control the browser and act on a member's behalf. Admins can enable an always allow option so actions run without confirmation, and can set a domain to browser control or read only.
Monday should start without you, and the whole setup should move with the job.
The pile is not an event.
It arrives every week whether or not you have the time, which makes it a routine rather than a task.
Save it once and Strawberry keeps how you like it done. The sources you check. What counts as a yes. The point where you want to look before anything goes out.
Then give it a schedule, or a trigger such as a new email arriving. Every run is recorded with what it did and what it cost, so a Monday that quietly failed is visible instead of discovered three weeks later.
Then hand the whole thing over. An AI companion carries its memory, its skills and its connected accounts. The next person screening for this role inherits your judgement, not a document about it. Your team workspace holds the shared files, and shared credits cover whoever needs them.
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