Perplexity Unveils AI Teammates, Work Agents That Keep a Project Moving
They remember what has already been done on a project and pick up the next task when circumstances change. At launch, the feature is available on the web to Perplexity Max subscribers.
Perplexity unveiled AI Teammates, a work-oriented product, on November 4 local time. Teammates take ownership of a project, monitor how it is progressing, and bring results back to the user for review. According to the company, these agents, which handle work on their own, divide up roles among themselves and carry over the projects and memory already accumulated in Perplexity’s existing tools.
Can you hand off a task once and leave it running?
The core of Teammates is its ability to remember earlier work and continue on to the next step. Perplexity says a Teammate retains the project’s goals, the work already completed, and the files being shared, then moves on to the next task when conditions change. Users can look in on work in progress or redirect it. Even while the AI keeps working, the structure leaves room for a person to step in and check the output.
Teammates is designed to be used alongside Perplexity Computer, a tool that runs agents on the user’s own device. Within that setup, a Teammate coordinates the work sessions Computer runs as well as other Teammates, taking on multiple roles. The focus is not merely on executing individual tasks but on managing, across the whole project, what should be carried forward and what should be handed off to another AI.
What has changed from Computer?
The existing Perplexity Computer could already handle complex projects. But assembling agents to take on continuing work required users to lay out the plan themselves. Perplexity says Teammates adds ongoing work management, memory of prior work, and the ability to pass tasks to other agents. The change is meant to reduce the burden of designing each task from scratch every time.
Perplexity says it introduced a personal AI assistant that handles tasks on the web in the Comet browser in July 2025. Teammates widens that scope toward steadily managing projects. Competing with work-oriented AI products such as Anthropic’s Claude Cowork, which handles files and tools, Perplexity is positioning collaboration among multiple AIs and follow-up work as its headline capabilities.
Who can use it, and where?
At launch, access is limited to Perplexity Max subscribers, on the web. Users on the free plan and on Pro will need to upgrade to Max. Perplexity says iOS support will be added later.
External tools already used for work can also be connected. Slack, GitHub and Gmail are among the supported integrations, and on GitHub users can choose which repositories to grant access to. Each Teammate operates in an isolated execution environment, and browser use is likewise kept separate between them. Perplexity says the tool and project access permissions already configured in Computer carry over as they are.
The shift Teammates is pitching is an AI that remembers the context of the work and carries it through to the next step, with the user taking on the role of adjusting course along the way and reviewing the results. What remains to be seen is how reliably this kind of work management holds up on real projects. For users in South Korea, the scope of access for local accounts, Korean-language support, subscription costs and usage limits will also factor into any decision to adopt it.