Perplexity announced Teammates on November 4, 2026, as AI agents built on Perplexity Computer for work that continues across tasks. The company says they can retain project context, monitor work, coordinate with other agents and return results for a person to review. Perplexity’s launch announcement describes a standing work assignment, rather than a one-off answer.
Before handing work to an agent, define the job, the expected result, when it should act and which project or tools it can use.
What Teammates are designed to do
Perplexity says Teammates draw on the projects, skills, memory, tools and files already used in Computer. Each agent can keep context from previous work in a persistent thread, take on recurring responsibilities and adapt when priorities change, according to the company’s description. The product page describes agents that can collaborate with one another and follow up with coworkers in Slack. Perplexity’s Teammates page also presents roles in areas such as marketing, operations, engineering and legal research.
That continuing assignment is the key idea: an agent might watch for a change or a deadline, then prepare a result for review. In one operations example, Perplexity describes an agent following up on missing items when a deadline is 72 hours away. That is a company example of intended use, not a measured productivity result.
Set the task and its access
Perplexity’s setup instructions put the user in charge of the assignment’s scope. In the web interface, the sequence is:
- Select Teammates, name the agent and connect the tools it needs.
- Describe where its work comes from, what it should deliver and when it should act.
- Assign it to a project and give it an initial task.
- If connecting GitHub, select the repositories the user can access.
Perplexity says each agent has a separate environment and browser session, and inherits the permissions already set for Computer’s tools and Projects. The company also says saved credentials are encrypted. Users can inspect progress, give new direction, redirect an agent or take over its desktop; the described workflow includes approval requests when a decision is needed.
Web access and Max credits
Perplexity’s product page lists Teammates as available on the web to Perplexity Max subscribers and says iOS and Android are coming. The Max subscription is the access requirement Perplexity names for web use.
Perplexity says Max includes a promotional grant of Teammates credits. After that grant, Teammates use credits already included with Max. PCMag reported individual Max pricing of $200 per month or $2,000 per year. That is the reported subscription price, not a separate Teammates charge. The credit terms describe how usage is drawn from Max; they do not make the promotional grant permanent.
