Perplexity wants you to stop prompting and start delegating. The startup this week launched Teammates, always-on agents that take ownership of a responsibility and keep working on it, and the pitch is aimed squarely at the "AI coworker" category that OpenAI and Anthropic have been building out.

According to The Verge, Teammates can hold multiple roles inside a workspace while pulling in the projects, skills and memory you already have in Perplexity's tools. They build on Perplexity Computer, the company's agent system, but add the ability to collaborate on "ongoing, large-scale work." The Verge compares them to OpenAI's Dots and Claude Duet.

## What it does

In its launch post, Perplexity says a teammate plans and coordinates projects, monitors them and "investigate[s] and act[s] without waiting for a fresh query," then presents results for review. Each teammate gets its own never-closing thread, runs in a separate environment with its own browser sessions, and can be tracked in the app or in Slack. Example jobs include managing a growth campaign, triaging bug reports or tracking metrics.

CEO Aravind Srinivas said on X, per The Verge: "Over time, we envision every org having hundreds of teammates working for each person."

## The catch

Access requires the $200-a-month Max plan, which makes Perplexity's version considerably pricier than its rivals', The Verge notes. Digital Trends reports it's web-only at launch, with mobile and desktop apps promised. Perplexity's own materials say iOS and Android are coming, and its help center labels it a research preview.

## Why it matters

The industry is converging on the same product shape: a persistent agent with memory that you manage rather than chat with. That's a stickier, more expensive relationship than a search box, which is exactly why Perplexity, a company best known for answers, wants it. Keeping an agent running 24/7 is costly, and a $200 price tag suggests the compute bill is the constraint.

What to watch: whether Teammates reach cheaper tiers, how Perplexity handles the isolation promises once agents hold real credentials, and whether Max subscribers actually trust an agent to act unprompted.

— via The Verge