A Perplexity Enterprise alternative for your own agents
Perplexity Enterprise is answer-engine search for people. Suda is a company brain your AI agents query over MCP. Here is the difference and when each fits.
If you are looking at Perplexity Enterprise, you want fast, cited answers across your internal sources and the web. Suda solves a neighboring problem: it is a company brain for your team and enterprise that your own AI agents query directly. Here is the honest difference.
What Perplexity Enterprise is good at
Perplexity Enterprise gives people an excellent answer engine: ask a question, get a cited answer that blends your connected internal sources with the web. If the job is “let employees ask and get sourced answers fast,” it is strong and pleasant to use.
Where the two diverge
The divergence is who is asking and what sits underneath.
- Perplexity is an answer engine for people: it retrieves across sources and generates a cited answer.
- Suda builds a context graph and exposes it over MCP, so the AI agents already running in your stack query structured, current context directly, not a chat answer they then have to parse.
That difference shows up when an agent, not a person, needs context to act:
| Perplexity Enterprise | Suda (company brain) | |
|---|---|---|
| Built primarily for | People asking questions | AI agents querying |
| Shape | Answer engine (internal + web) | Context infrastructure |
| Underlying model | Retrieve and cite | Graph of connected facts |
| Stale and conflicting facts | Cited as found | Retired and resolved automatically |
| How agents connect | Assistant and API | Native over MCP |
| Context sent to a model | Retrieved passages | Only what is needed (~85% less) |
When to pick which
- Pick Perplexity Enterprise if you mainly want people to get fast, cited answers across internal and web sources.
- Pick Suda if you want a company brain that feeds correct, current context to the agents in your own stack over MCP, with permissioned access.
Some teams use an answer engine for people and Suda for their agents. They are not the same job.
Trying Suda
Suda connects to more than 700 sources, including Notion, Slack, and Linear, builds the graph, keeps it current, and serves it to any agent over MCP. Setup is one command:
npx suda connect