Perplexity launched Teammates on November 5: long-running agents that own a project, remember past work, act without a fresh prompt and take jobs from a Slack channel. They run inside Perplexity Computer, on the web first and soon on iOS, for Max subscribers at $200 a month.
Perplexity now sells an AI agent that keeps working after you close the tab. The company launched Teammates on November 5. Each one owns a piece of ongoing work, such as a sales pipeline or a support queue, remembers what it did last time and acts when something changes without waiting for a new prompt. It is only on Perplexity Max, which costs $200 a month. If you are not already paying for Max, this is not a reason to start yet.
What a teammate does
A teammate sits on top of Perplexity Computer, the company’s agent system, and uses the same Projects, skills, memory, files and tool connections, according to Perplexity. What it adds is ownership:
- It keeps state. Project goals, task history and shared files carry across runs, and feedback sticks. Perplexity’s example: tell an operations teammate an agency needs two weeks’ notice, and it plans around that from then on.
- It acts on its own. Perplexity’s sales example notices a regular customer who stopped buying, reviews the order and support history, drafts an offer and asks for approval before reaching out.
- It works with people and other agents. You can add a teammate to a Slack channel so colleagues can hand it work, and one teammate can pass findings to another, such as bug reports to a teammate that prepares fixes.
You set one up on the web under Teammates in the left sidebar: name it, connect plugins such as Slack, GitHub or Gmail (choosing which GitHub repositories it can see), describe the work it owns and give it a first task. You can watch progress in its own thread in the Perplexity app, take over its desktop or redirect it mid-task. Each teammate runs in a separate environment with its own browser session, and saved credentials are encrypted, Perplexity says.
The price is the catch
Teammates launch on the web, with iOS “soon,” for Max subscribers only. Free and Pro users have to upgrade. That puts the entry ticket at $200 a month per person, while The Verge notes that OpenAI and Anthropic are pushing similar always-on agents, Dots and Claude Duet, that run around the clock and take several jobs at once. Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas wrote on X that he expects “every org having hundreds of teammates working for each person,” according to The Verge.
Who should try it now
If your team already pays for Max and runs Perplexity Computer, Teammates cost nothing extra and are worth one pilot on a contained, repetitive job: a weekly competitor price check or a support-trend summary. Start with read-only access. A teammate that drafts outreach and reads Gmail is one approval click away from sending, so keep the approval step on and connect only the repositories and mailboxes the job needs, the same habit that applies to agents that sign in for you.
If you are choosing a work agent from scratch, wait. Perplexity says features and access expand “in the coming weeks,” so the Max-only gate and the feature list may both change soon.