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Connect Microsoft 365 Email (Outlook) and Perplexity AI integrations

Transform your email workflow by connecting Microsoft 365 Email (Outlook) with Perplexity AI through Make. This powerful integration enables you to automate personalized email creation, intelligent response generation, and research-based outreach at scale.

Use AI-powered knowledge discovery to craft contextually relevant communications, simplify your workflow, and improve customer engagement—all without switching between platforms. Save hours of manual work while delivering higher-quality, data-driven email content.

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Create a custom workflow

Transform your inbox into an intelligent automation powerhouse by connecting Microsoft 365 Email (Outlook) with Perplexity AI. Automatically route incoming emails for instant analysis, summarization, and research assistance, turning every message into actionable insights without lifting a finger.

Create a custom workflow

Every automation starts with a trigger and an action. Select one from each app to generate a workflow tailored to your needs.

Microsoft 365 Email (Outlook)
Trigger: Watch Emails
Perplexity AI
Action: Select an action
1. Select a trigger

  • Triggers when a new email is sent or received.

  • Triggers when a new email is sent or received.

2. Select an action

  • Creates a chat completions with the chosen model.

  • Generate a response for the provided input with optional web search and reasoning.

  • Generate contextualized embeddings for document chunks. Chunks from the same document share context awareness, improving retrieval quality for document-based applications.

  • Generate vector representations (embeddings) for the text you provide.

  • Performs an arbitrary authorized API call.

Select a trigger and an action

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Triggers and actions

Perplexity AI functions as a trigger by automatically detecting incoming emails and initiating workflows when specific email events occur. When an email arrives in your Outlook inbox, it triggers the automation process that routes the email content to Microsoft 365 Email (Outlook). Microsoft 365 Email (Outlook) then functions as an action by processing the email information to perform tasks such as instant analysis, content summarization, or research assistance based on the email data received from the trigger. This trigger-action integration enables automatic processing of incoming emails from Perplexity AI through Microsoft 365 Email (Outlook)'s intelligent capabilities, with the enriched responses generated as output from the action step.

Add an Attachment
Adds a large attachment to an email.
Action
Create a chat completion
Creates a chat completions with the chosen model.
Action
Create a Draft Email
Creates a new draft email.
Action
Create an agent response
Generate a response for the provided input with optional web search and reasoning.
Action
Delete an Email
Deletes an email.
Action
Download an Attachment (legacy)
Downloads an attachment from an email.
Action
Forward an Email
Forwards an email.
Action
Generate contextualized embeddings (advanced)
Generate contextualized embeddings for document chunks. Chunks from the same document share context awareness, improving retrieval quality for document-based applications.
Action
Generate embeddings
Generate vector representations (embeddings) for the text you provide.
Action
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How to set up Microsoft 365 Email (Outlook) and Perplexity AI in 5 easy steps

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Log in to Make and add your app

Sign into your Make account and add the application module you want to connect, such as Microsoft 365 Email or Perplexity AI, to your automation workflow. This module represents the app you'll be connecting and acts as the building block for your automation.

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Start creating your connection

Click the 'Create a Connection' button that appears after adding your app module. This begins the process of linking Make with your chosen application so they can communicate and share information with each other.

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Name your connection

Give your connection a custom name to help you remember its purpose later. This optional step is particularly useful when you're managing multiple connections, as it keeps everything organized and helps you identify them at a glance.

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Authenticate your application

Depending on your app, you'll either need to log in directly and grant Make permission to access your account (like with Microsoft 365 Email), or obtain and enter an API key from your application's settings (like with Perplexity AI). This step ensures secure authorization between Make and your application.

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Save and start building

Click the Save button to finalize your connection and store all the settings. Once the connection is successfully established, you can begin adding more modules and building your automation with data flowing between Make and your connected application.

Transform your email workflow with AI-powered automation

Discover how integrating Microsoft 365 Email (Outlook) and Perplexity AI creates intelligent, automated email workflows that save time, increase personalization, and deliver research-backed communications.

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AI-powered email personalization at scale

Automatically generate highly personalized email content using Perplexity AI's knowledge discovery capabilities and send them through Outlook, saving hours of manual writing time.

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Intelligent response automation

Use Perplexity AI to research and craft contextually relevant email responses that are automatically sent via Microsoft 365 Email, improving response quality and speed.

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Better customer engagement

Combine Perplexity AI's information discovery with Outlook's email delivery to create data-driven, engaging communications that resonate with your audience.

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Efficient knowledge-to-communication workflow

Transform insights and information discovered through Perplexity AI into professional email communications without switching between platforms.

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By integrating Perplexity AI with Microsoft 365 Email through Make, you can automatically enrich your emails with AI-powered research and insights. For example, when you receive emails with questions or topics requiring research, Make can trigger Perplexity AI to gather relevant information and automatically send comprehensive responses via Outlook. This saves hours of manual research time and ensures your email replies are always well-informed and accurate.

Make enables powerful automation scenarios such as: automatically researching topics mentioned in incoming emails and sending summaries to your team, creating AI-generated briefings from email threads and storing them in your inbox, monitoring specific email labels or folders and using Perplexity AI to compile weekly research reports, and generating intelligent responses to customer inquiries by combining Perplexity's knowledge discovery with Outlook's email capabilities. These automations run 24/7 without manual intervention.

No coding skills are required. Make provides a visual, drag-and-drop interface that allows you to connect Microsoft 365 Email and Perplexity AI with point-and-click actions. You can set up triggers (like receiving a new email), actions (like querying Perplexity AI), and responses (like sending an email with the results) all through an intuitive visual builder. Make offers pre-built templates and modules specifically designed for both applications, making integration accessible to users of all technical levels.

Make employs enterprise-grade security measures including encrypted connections, OAuth 2.0 authentication for Microsoft 365, and secure API integrations. You maintain full control over what data is shared between applications, and you can configure specific triggers and filters to ensure only relevant information is processed. Make is compliant with major security standards and only transfers the data you explicitly configure in your automation workflows, ensuring your sensitive email content remains protected throughout the integration process.