Community-discourse search via parallel.ai with optional platform filtering. Returns synthesized text excerpts plus direct URLs to real Reddit threads, X posts from named operators, Substack essays, LinkedIn posts, Facebook posts.
Use for: "what are practitioners saying about X", recurring themes in founder voice, multi-platform discourse mapping, verbatim quotes from named individuals.
Per Phase 3.5 empirical A/B (Docs/solutions/architecture-decisions/search-backend-architecture-jun04.md): this tool SOLVES the Reddit/X retrieval gap that perplexity_search fundamentally couldn't fill.
Optional platforms[] to restrict (e.g. ["reddit","x","substack"]). Per social-listening-synthesis §3 sample ≥3 platforms per brief.
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