Perplexity launched Teammates on 4 November 2026: personal agents that plan and coordinate ongoing work inside Perplexity Computer. On X, @perplexity_ai says they are “Available now for Max subscribers on the web.” The blog adds that iOS is coming soon for Max, and that Free and Pro users can upgrade in Settings.
The Verge (Emma Roth, 5 November) frames Teammates as Perplexity’s answer to OpenAI Dots and Claude Duet, and notes the Max plan at $200 per month makes Perplexity’s take more expensive than those peers. We are not inventing Enterprise defaults; availability here is Max on the web per Perplexity’s own post.
What Perplexity says they do
Perplexity says Teammates build on Computer rather than replace it. Each teammate gets its own thread, runs in a separate environment with browser sessions isolated from other teammates, and can use existing Projects, skills and memory. The blog lists plugins such as Slack, GitHub or Gmail during setup. Teammates can message coworkers in Slack, pass work to each other, monitor ongoing work without a fresh query, and bring completed work back for review. Saved credentials are described as encrypted and entered securely; users can take over the desktop or redirect a teammate as it works.
Example workflows in the post cover marketing campaigns, sales follow-ups, support triage and operations checklists. CEO Aravind Srinivas, quoted by The Verge from X, envisions “hundreds of teammates working for each person” over time. That is a company vision statement, not a shipped default.
Why this matters
Always-on work agents are now a three-way product race among OpenAI, Anthropic and Perplexity. Teammates are interesting because they sit on Computer’s tool and Project permissions, and on the same Firecracker isolation story we covered with SPACE, rather than inventing a separate runtime. The practical catch is price and access: Max-only on the web today, with company claims about proactive monitoring that you should verify on a reversible project before you hand over Slack or GitHub.
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