Perplexity launches Teammates, agents that own ongoing work, for Max subscribers

Perplexity announced on 4 November a feature called Teammates: agents that sit inside its Perplexity Computer product and take ownership of ongoing work. Perplexity says users can delegate ongoing actions to teammates "so people can focus on outcomes rather than coordinating every task." According to Perplexity's announcement post, Teammates are rolling out first on the web for Perplexity Max subscribers, with iOS to follow.

What a teammate is

Perplexity describes teammates as "personal agents that can take on that long-running work". The post says they plan and coordinate projects, change course as priorities shift, and present results for review, and that users can inspect and guide the work as it goes.

A teammate is built on top of Computer, Perplexity's existing product. The post says teammates "work inside Computer with all of your tools and files", and that a teammate "coordinates Computer sessions and other teammates to keep projects moving". The difference from a one-off Computer task, as Perplexity frames it, is memory and continuity: teammates "remember project goals, task history, and shared files across runs", so each new task builds on work already done.

What Perplexity says they can do

The announcement lists several capabilities:

• Monitoring and follow-up. Perplexity says teammates "investigate and act without waiting for a fresh query". Its example is a sales teammate that notices a regular customer has stopped buying, reviews their order and support history, and then either drafts an offer or flags issues to fix first, sending progress updates and approval requests along the way.
• Learning from feedback. The post says that if a user tells an operations teammate an agency needs two weeks' notice, it factors that lead time into future schedules.
• Working in Slack. "Add a teammate to a Slack channel and colleagues can hand it work or ask for updates on a task," the post says.
• Handing work to each other. Perplexity's example is one teammate finding bugs on a website and passing them to another to prepare fixes.
• Reusing existing setup. Teammates build on the Projects, skills and memory already in Computer, so, Perplexity says, a sales teammate could use a Project's existing account research, follow a skill for writing outreach, and run a weekly automation to review the pipeline.

The post also gives example roles for marketing, sales, customer support and operations. For instance, it says a support teammate "reviews the previous day’s complaints, summarizes trends, and flags cases that need a personal response from the CEO", then drafts those responses and tracks each case to resolution.

Access controls

On security, Perplexity says teammates build on Computer's existing tool and Project permissions, and that "Each teammate runs in a separate environment, with browser sessions separate from other teammates." It says saved credentials are encrypted and entered securely, and that users can review completed work, take over the desktop or redirect a teammate mid-task.

Who can use it, and how to set one up

The availability line in the post reads: "Teammates are initially launching on the web and soon on iOS for Perplexity Max subscribers." It adds that Free and Pro subscribers can upgrade under Settings > Account > Subscription. The post does not give a price, a list of regions, or any usage limits, and it does not give a date for the iOS release.

Perplexity's setup steps, in summary:

1. Sign in on the web and pick Teammates in the left navigation.
2. Name the teammate after the project it will handle, then follow the setup steps.
3. Connect the tools it needs, such as Slack, GitHub or Gmail plugins. For GitHub, choose which repositories it can reach.
4. Describe the work it should own: where the work comes from, what it should deliver and when it should act.
5. Assign it to a project and give it a first task.

The post closes by saying Perplexity will be "expanding teammates’ access and features in the coming weeks".

What the post does not say

Perplexity does not name the AI models behind Teammates. It refers only to "Computer’s multi-model capabilities". The examples in the post describe what Perplexity says teammates can do; the post does not include independent tests or measured results.

Why it matters

On our reading, this is Perplexity moving its product from single tasks to standing jobs: an agent with a role, its own memory of a project, connected tools and a place in a team's Slack. Also on our reading: for a small business, Perplexity's own examples (chasing lapsed customers, keeping project deadlines and vendors on track, triaging complaints) are the kind of routine follow-up that tends to slip, and whether teammates do that reliably is not something the announcement can show. For now, the feature is limited to Max subscribers on the web.