What happened
Perplexity says Teammates are personal agents built on Computer, its multi-model work environment. Rather than handling only a fresh query, a Teammate can be assigned continuing responsibility for a project: it plans work, coordinates Computer sessions and other Teammates, checks results, and brings completed work back for review. Users can inspect and guide work as it proceeds.
The company says Teammates retain project goals, task history, and shared files across runs, so each new task can build on previous work. They can monitor ongoing work and act when conditions change without waiting for a new prompt. Perplexity illustrates this with a sales agent that notices a regular customer has stopped buying, examines order and support history, investigates the change, then prepares a relevant offer or flags issues to resolve before outreach. It can share progress and request approvals along the way. Feedback can also shape later work: an operations agent told that a vendor requires two weeks’ notice is expected to account for that lead time in future schedules.
Teammates can work across teams and tools. They can be added to a Slack channel so colleagues can assign work or request updates, and can hand work to one another. The announcement describes an example in which one agent finds website bugs and passes findings to another to prepare fixes. Teammates can use existing Computer Projects, skills, and memory, as well as weekly automations. Perplexity gives a sales workflow that reviews a pipeline, identifies stalled conversations, drafts follow-ups for review, and applies the results to the next week.
The launch examples cover marketing, sales, customer support, and operations, including campaign monitoring, outreach preparation, complaint triage, and deadline follow-up. Perplexity says each Teammate runs in a separate environment, with browser sessions separate from other Teammates. Saved credentials are encrypted and entered securely; users can review completed work, take over the desktop, or redirect an agent while it works.
Teammates are initially launching on the web for Perplexity Max subscribers, with iOS described as coming soon. Free and Pro subscribers can upgrade through Settings > Account > Subscription. Setup involves naming an agent, connecting tools such as Slack, GitHub, or Gmail, choosing GitHub repositories it may access, describing its responsibilities and timing, assigning a Project, and giving it an initial task. Perplexity says access and features will expand in the coming weeks. The announcement gives no price for Max or separate Teammates charge.
What the archive adds
New Runtime covered the initial introduction of Perplexity Teammates on 2026-11-06 in Perplexity Teammates: Agents Designed for Work, describing persistent work agents available on the web to Max subscribers. This is therefore a further account of the same launch story, not a new event; the current announcement adds detail on monitoring, cross-team handoffs, setup, and access controls.
Trend signal
This launch supports the pattern that long-running agent usefulness depends on explicit ongoing goals and follow-through, not repeated manual continuation. Perplexity describes retained goals and task history, monitoring, review points, and action over time; these are consistent with goal-scoped loops replacing manual continuation. The announcement does not report completion rates or comparative reliability, so it is product evidence for the design direction, not proof of outcomes.
Why now
Perplexity frames Teammates as a response to more capable models and to the need to set up agents for ongoing work rather than one-off tasks. Its announcement says Computer already handles complex projects, while Teammates coordinate its sessions and tools around continuing ownership.
Connections to other events
New Runtime's earlier coverage of Kiro Crew on 2026-08-08 described schedules, durable memory, skills, multiple cooperating agents, approval gates, and app connections for work that persists beyond one session. Teammates likewise combines persistent work with coordination and review, though Perplexity positions it inside its Computer environment rather than as an extension of a shared harness.
Why it matters
For teams, the product boundary is shifting from asking an assistant to produce an answer toward assigning an ongoing responsibility with context, connected tools, and a review path. Persistent goals and history could reduce the repeated setup cost of recurring workflows; monitoring and handoffs could keep work moving when a person is not actively prompting. Perplexity’s examples also make clear that these systems can affect customers, campaigns, and operational deadlines, so useful autonomy depends on knowing what the agent may access and when a person must approve or redirect it.
The announcement describes the mechanisms but does not demonstrate that they outperform manual coordination or establish how often intervention is needed. Teams evaluating the model should treat Teammates as a workflow capability to test, not as evidence that work can be delegated without oversight. The initial Max-only web rollout also means adoption depends on subscription access and available integrations.
Limits and uncertainty
Perplexity does not report measured task success, error rates, time saved, or how often users need to intervene. The announcement describes encrypted saved credentials and separated environments, but does not independently establish their security properties or specify the full permission model and audit trail. It does not state the Max subscription price or whether Teammates will have usage limits. iOS access and expanded features are future plans, with no dates given.
Skill to build now
Choose one recurring workflow with a clear input, deliverable, and review point. Write down where work originates, what sources and tools an agent may access, what output is acceptable, and which actions require approval. This maps directly to Perplexity’s setup instructions and gives a team a practical acceptance checklist before delegating customer-facing or operational work.
Reader takeaway
Teammates are Perplexity’s attempt to make agents responsible for continuing work rather than isolated prompts. The notable combination is persistent project context, monitoring, coordination across tools and agents, and human review. The launch is concrete, but claims about reliability and business impact still need to be tested in real workflows.