Originally published on The Daily Flare.
Perplexity launched Teammates on November 5, an always-on AI agent system inside its Computer platform that can coordinate parallel assignments and manage continuing workplace projects.
The agents are designed to take responsibility for work that continues over time, rather than just respond to individual requests. Perplexity says Teammates can plan projects, adjust as priorities change and return completed work for review. Users can monitor progress and guide or redirect an agent while it works. The company’s announcement was dated November 4, while The Verge reported the launch on November 5.
Teammates build on Perplexity Computer, which can use agents to carry out tasks on a user’s device. A Teammate can coordinate Computer sessions and other Teammates, working with the user’s existing tools and files. The system can also draw on projects, skills and memory already set up in Computer, so agents can use existing context across assignments.
Perplexity says agents can remember project goals, task history and shared files between runs. They can monitor work and investigate changes without waiting for a new prompt. In one example from the company, a sales agent notices that a regular customer has stopped placing orders, reviews the customer’s order history and support issues, then prepares a relevant offer or flags problems to address before outreach. It can provide progress updates and request approval as it works.
The company describes agents for functions including marketing, sales, support, operations and finance. Its examples include a marketing agent managing social posts, email campaigns, ads, search engine optimization and review notes, then creating new ads based on what is working. A sales agent could use existing account research and sales goals to find stalled conversations, prepare follow-ups for review and use the results to inform the next week’s work.
Teammates can also pass work between one another. Perplexity gives the example of an agent finding website bugs and handing its findings to another agent to prepare fixes. For operations, the company says an agent can remember feedback about a two-week notice requirement and account for that lead time when scheduling later projects.
Work can be assigned or discussed through Slack. Users can add an agent to a channel, where colleagues can hand it tasks or ask for progress updates. This allows a Teammate to work with other employees and pass information between connected projects, in addition to coordinating with other agents.
Each Teammate runs in a separate environment, with its own browser session. Perplexity says the agents use the permissions already set up for Computer, and saved credentials are encrypted and entered securely. Users can inspect completed work, take control of the desktop or redirect an agent during a task.
The service requires Perplexity’s Max subscription, which costs $200 a month, The Verge reported. Perplexity says Teammates are available on the web to Max subscribers. The price is higher than the work-agent products cited by The Verge, including OpenAI’s Dots and Anthropic’s Claude Duet, which also offer agents that can run continuously.
Perplexity chief executive Aravind Srinivas described a longer-term ambition in a post on X: “Over time, we envision every org having hundreds of teammates working for each person.” That is the company’s stated vision, not a current description of how many agents organizations use.
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