THE ESSENTIALS IN 30 SECONDS

  • Each Teammate gets a standing brief, its own persistent thread in the sidebar, its own desktop and browser, and access to the user's installed skills and plugins.
  • Teammates run on automations, can hand work to other agents and follow up with coworkers in Slack, and notify the user when a decision is needed.
  • The feature is web-only and reserved for the $200-a-month Max plan; usage is free during a promotional period, then draws on Max credits.

Perplexity introduced Teammates on November 5, a set of AI agents meant to own ongoing pieces of work instead of answering one-off prompts. The feature builds on Perplexity Computer, the company's agent system, and carries over its projects, skills and memory, so a user can hand an existing project or a recurring task to an agent and let it continue in the background.

How Teammates work

A user sets up each Teammate with a role and a standing brief, along with rules for when it should ask for input, pass work to another agent or contact a colleague. Every Teammate appears in the sidebar with a single persistent thread showing what it is doing and what it has finished; the user can ask for a status update or change its plans in plain language at any time. Each one has its own desktop and browser, with separate browsing sessions and cookies, and uses the skills and plugins the user has installed under the same permissions. Perplexity says Teammates run on automations around the clock, can bring in additional agents as work grows, and send a notification when a decision is required.

Slack is the main collaboration channel at launch: Teammates can follow up with coworkers there and update the user. The product page shows example roles in advertising, engineering, quality assurance, legal research, sales, operations, marketing and finance, including an on-call engineer that investigates monitoring alerts overnight. These scenarios are illustrations from the company, not measured results.

Price and availability

Teammates are available only on the web for now, with desktop and mobile apps, including iOS and Android, listed as coming later without a date. Access is limited to subscribers of Perplexity Max, which costs $200 a month according to the Free Press Journal. Every Max plan includes free Teammate usage during a promotional period; after that, the agents draw on the credits bundled with the subscription. Perplexity has not said how long the promotion lasts or how many credits a typical Teammate consumes.

Context

Perplexity is entering a crowded field of persistent work agents that major AI labs have also been pushing this autumn. Chief executive Aravind Srinivas wrote on X that he expects organisations to eventually run hundreds of Teammates per person, the Free Press Journal reported. For now, the high entry price and missing usage figures make it hard to judge the real cost of delegating sustained work to these agents.