Perplexity launches teammates, AI agents that own long-running business work

Key Points

1. Perplexity introduced teammates, agents that plan, coordinate and follow through on ongoing projects inside Computer.
2. The company said teammates run in isolated environments, retain project memory, and can hand work to each other.
3. Launch is limited to Max subscribers on the web, with iOS access promised later.

The latest:

Perplexity has launched teammates, personal agents built to take on long-running work rather than single queries, the company said in a product announcement dated 4 November 2026. The agents plan projects, shift as priorities change and return finished work for human review. Perplexity said they operate inside Computer, drawing on the same tools, files and permissions users already have there.

Details:

• The product: Perplexity described teammates as agents that coordinate Computer sessions and other teammates to keep projects moving. According to the company, they remember project goals, task history and shared files across runs, so each new task builds on work already completed rather than starting from scratch.
• Proactive behavior: The company said teammates monitor work and act without waiting for a fresh prompt. Its example: a sales teammate notices a regular customer has stopped transacting, reviews order history and support tickets, then prepares an offer or flags unresolved issues before any outreach is attempted.
• Learning from feedback: Perplexity said teammates apply user corrections to later tasks. If an operations teammate is told an agency requires two weeks’ notice, the company said it factors that lead time into future project schedules without being reminded again.
• Agent-to-agent handoff: According to Perplexity, teammates can pass work between themselves, with one agent identifying bugs on a website and routing its findings to another that prepares fixes. They can also be added to a Slack channel, where colleagues assign tasks or request status updates.
• Security setup: Perplexity said each teammate runs in a separate environment with browser sessions isolated from other teammates, and that saved credentials are encrypted. Users can review completed work, take over the desktop directly, or redirect an agent mid-task. Permissions build on Computer’s existing tool and Project controls.
• Named use cases: The company listed marketing, sales, customer support and operations workflows. A support teammate reviews the previous day’s complaints, summarizes trends and flags cases needing a personal CEO response; an operations teammate chases missing items when a deadline sits 72 hours away.
• Tool integration: Perplexity said teammates draw on Projects, skills, memory and automations already in Computer. Setup requires connecting plugins such as Slack, GitHub or Gmail, and for GitHub users select which repositories the agent may access.
• Availability: Teammates launch on the web for Perplexity Max subscribers, with iOS described as coming soon. Free and Pro users must upgrade through subscription settings. Perplexity said access and features will expand in the coming weeks, without naming a date or pricing change.

Background:

Perplexity said it shipped the first web-capable AI assistant in July 2025 inside its Comet browser, aimed at consumer tasks such as booking restaurants and shopping. The company positions Computer as the workplace successor, arguing personal agents now need to be purpose-built for business use.

Between the lines:

The framing marks a shift in what Perplexity is selling: not answers, but ownership of a workstream. Tying the launch to Max, the top subscription tier, and to Computer rather than the consumer browser signals the company is chasing business seats over individual users. The emphasis on isolated environments, encrypted credentials and takeover controls reads as an attempt to pre-empt the obvious enterprise objection to agents acting without a prompt.

What’s next

Watch for the iOS rollout, the promised expansion of access and features in the coming weeks, and whether Perplexity publishes reliability or error-rate data for agents acting without human prompting.