Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas said on November 6, 2026, that the median number of weekly agent-hours Perplexity employees received from Teammates was seven times the September level. He also said one in five employees had at least 40 agent-hours in a week, according to his post.
The day before, Srinivas said about 10,000 Teammates had been in Perplexity’s internal workspace over the preceding 30 days, with about 1,000 active the previous day. That count refers to Teammates in the workspace, not 10,000 employees, as his November 5 post describes.
Agent-hours are a usage signal, not a measure of how much employee time was saved.
What the agent-hours figures say
The sevenfold comparison is about the median weekly agent-hours: the middle value across employees, not a company-wide total. The “one in five” figure describes the share of employees whose weekly agent-hours reached 40 or more. The two claims therefore describe different aspects of internal use.
Srinivas called 40 or more agent-hours “basically a full extra workweek.” That comparison describes agent activity; the figure itself does not measure an equivalent reduction in employees’ workload or the quality of the work produced.
How Perplexity says to configure a Teammate
Perplexity describes Teammates as agents for ongoing work built on Perplexity Computer. They can use Projects, skills, memory, tools, and files, retain project goals and task history between runs, monitor work, coordinate with other agents, and return results for people to review, according to the company’s announcement.
Perplexity’s documented web setup proceeds in this order:
- Select Teammates and name the agent.
- Connect the needed tools, such as Slack, GitHub, or Gmail. For GitHub, select which repositories the agent can access.
- Define the work’s inputs, deliverable, and trigger.
- Assign a Project and an initial task.
Perplexity said on November 5, 2026, that Teammates were available on the web to Max subscribers.
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