Perplexity launches Teammates, agents for ongoing work, in preview for Max subscribers

Perplexity already had an agent for one-off assignments: Computer, its cloud agent that takes a multi-step task, runs it, and reports back. The November 6 changelog describes Teammates this way: "Give a teammate an ongoing job instead of prompting task by task: it plans the work, runs tasks in parallel, and follows through until results are ready for your review."

The changelog's examples are ongoing jobs. One teammate checks email and calendar every morning and sends back what needs a reply, with drafts ready and prep notes for the day's meetings. Another watches named competitors for price changes, launches, and new hires, and flags anything important right away. A third drafts replies to every new support email from company policies and order history, and checks with a human before any refund.

Perplexity's November 4 blog says teammates remember project goals, task history, and shared files across runs, and that feedback carries forward. Its example is an operations teammate that, once told an agency needs two weeks' notice, builds that lead time into later schedules. The help center says a goal can be split across parallel agents. The blog says the teammate checks results before returning finished work, such as a report or a pull request.

Perplexity's help center says each teammate runs on its own isolated computer, with its own desktop and browser, and that browsing sessions and cookies stay with that teammate. It also says a teammate can work on sites that have no Connector, using the site the way a person would. The blog says a person can take over the desktop or redirect the teammate mid-task. The Decoder and Engadget report a dedicated thread for progress and the ability to ask for a status update.

The changelog says teammates use Perplexity Computer tasks, Skills, memory, and tools, and that they can collaborate with other teammates or message coworkers in Slack. The help center says they can watch connected tools such as Slack, GitHub, and Linear and start work when something arrives, and that a person can tag a teammate as an app in those tools. New teammates start on Claude Opus 5.5, and the model can be chosen per teammate or per task, the help center says.

Perplexity's blog says saved credentials are encrypted and entered securely, and the help center adds that teammates cannot view them. Access follows the permissions of the plugins and Projects already set up, and a teammate shares progress updates and approval requests until the work is done, according to the blog and the help center. TechRepublic says Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas has described an ambition in which organizations could have hundreds of AI teammates working for each employee. TechRepublic presents that as an ambition, not as a current product capability.

The Decoder's November 6 account lists other agents that keep working on a job: SpaceX's Grok Bots, Meta's Muse, OpenAI's Dots, and Anthropic's Duet. The Decoder says Dots start at $100 and Duet is available from $20, and that high agent use led SpaceX to impose stricter usage caps on Grok Bots. Those prices and caps are The Decoder's account.

TechRepublic, citing Perplexity's Max documentation, reports Max at $200 a month or $2,000 a year, about $167 a month when billed annually. Engadget also reports $200 a month and $2,000 a year. Perplexity's help center says this launch is a research preview for individual Max subscribers on the web, and that Enterprise Pro and Enterprise Max are not included by default. The November 4 blog says Teammates are initially on the web and soon on iOS for Max subscribers. Usage draws on the Max monthly credit allocation. The help center says complex projects can use more credits, particularly when agents run in parallel. Perplexity has not published a limit on how many teammates one account can run.

Perplexity says iOS is coming soon, and that it will expand teammates' access and features in the coming weeks. The sources reviewed for this briefing do not link independent tests of Teammates.