Perplexity launches Teammates, agents that own ongoing work
Perplexity has launched Teammates, personal agents for long-running work. A teammate works inside Perplexity Computer with your tools and files. It plans a project, checks results as it goes and brings finished work back to you for review. It keeps project goals, task history and shared files between runs, and it applies your feedback to later tasks.
Teammates can also act without a new prompt. Perplexity's example is a sales teammate that sees a regular customer stop buying, looks into the order history and prepares an offer. You can add a teammate to a Slack channel so colleagues can give it work, and one teammate can pass work to another. Each teammate runs in its own environment. You can review its work, take over the desktop or redirect it.
Teammates are on the web for Perplexity Max subscribers, with iOS to follow. To set one up, you name it, connect tools such as Slack, GitHub or Gmail, describe the work it owns and give it a first task.
What it means for your work
- Pick one repeated job: A weekly report or a follow-up list is a good first task, because you can check the result each week.
- Limit its access: Connect only the tools and repositories that job needs.
- Write down the rules: Lead times, approval steps and who to ask belong in the description, so the teammate follows them from the start.
If your team works in Slack, see our Slack review.