Smarter Lead Enrichment with Bitscale: Why Teams Are Trying Linkup Over Perplexity

In the world of B2B sales, good leads aren’t enough - you need qualified leads, surfaced fast and with context. Bitscale makes this possible with its grid-based platform that allows users to enrich and evaluate leads using live web data and natural language queries.
Among the most useful tools people are using within Bitscale is Perplexity - capable of retrieving real-time insights from the web. While Perplexity has been a popular option, more users are starting to experiment with Linkup.
A Quick Look at How Bitscale Enables Live Enrichment
Bitscale gives users the power to generate a filtered list of companies based on specific criteria - for example:
- Location: France
- Team size: Under 200 employees
- Industry: AI, software, or platforms
From there, users can enrich those records by connecting to external APIs like Linkup or Perplexity - all without a native integration. Bitscale simply gives you the flexibility to plug in any API endpoint, making it easy to bring your own tools into the workflow.
How Linkup Can Supercharge Your Research:
In a recent demo, Sacha from Linkup showed how users can bring their LinkUp API key into Bitscale and run real-time lead qualification workflows.
In his walkthrough, he:
- Pulled a list of AI-focused companies
- Used a prompt that asked Linkup to visit each company’s website and return a fit score
- Categorized the results as High, Mid, or Low fit based on relevance to LinkUp's solution
This allowed him to instantly sort through 285 companies and zero in on the ones that truly matched the product’s target audience.
For example:
- Delos, an AI platform with chatbot and search features, returned High Fit
- BrandCube, a manufacturing software company, returned Low Fit
This structure made the research quick, actionable, and clean - without having to interpret lengthy summaries.
An Alternative to Perplexity
Perplexity is also a strong option for enrichment in Bitscale. It's built for answering questions with real-time information and can generate detailed, informative outputs.
That said, Linkup stands out in its ability to perform deep account research.
It's more than a search engine — it's an AI research agent purpose-built for business intelligence.
Linkup can:
* Run multiple, sequential searches
* Scrape relevant data directly from company websites
* Return crisp, business-oriented insights fine-tuned for GTM and research teams
In short, Linkup gives teams depth and precision, where general-purpose tools stop at surface-level results.
Comparing LinkUp and Perplexity for Lead Workflows
| Feature | Linkup (via API) | Perplexity |
|---|---|---|
| Real-time web insights | ✅ | ✅ |
| Use in Bitscale with API | ✅ | ✅ |
| Structured fit scoring | ✅ | Manual setup needed |
| Optimized for batch lead research | ✅ | Partially |
| Response format | Simple and actionable | Rich and descriptive |
| Ideal for | Fast qualification | In-depth research |
Both tools are valuable, and the good news is: you don’t have to choose one over the other. Bitscale allows you to experiment with both and customize your workflows based on what fits your style of selling.
More Than Just Fit Scores
The real power of Bitscale is in how flexible your queries can be. Whether you’re using Linkup or Perplexity, you can ask things like:
- Did the company mention AI agents in recent blog posts?
- Have they announced office expansions recently?
- What products are listed on their homepage?
- Is there any mention of “chatbots” or “automated support”?
With a well-written prompt, you can qualify, filter, and act on data that would otherwise take hours to gather.