Perplexity Launches Teammates, Persistent AI Coworkers That Take on Whole Jobs

On November 6, Perplexity CEO Arav Srinivas announced Teammates—persistent personal agents built for work—with the official account confirming the launch the same day. Teammates shifts the usage paradigm from "writing prompts in a chat" to "setting high-level goals," positioning itself as a delegable, end-to-end task-managing "digital coworker" rather than a one-off sandbox session.

Confirmed

• Rolling out to Max users on the web starting November 6, with native mobile and desktop apps coming soon (m1)
• Teammates can live in Slack, proactively observing ongoing work in channels and acting when circumstances change rather than just responding to commands (m2)
• Can invoke the user's Computer tasks, skills, memory, and tools to take on assignments and work proactively (m7)
• A positioning upgrade: from a temporary sandbox session with Computer access to a persistent coworker that can own tasks end to end (m4)
• Learns from user feedback and avoids repeating mistakes; the more it "onboards," the more capable it becomes, reusing existing memory and skills rather than starting from scratch (m5)
• Internal everyday use cases include automated bug triage, QA loops, security monitoring, data analysis, managing A/B tests in production, and running growth marketing (m3, m6)

Why it matters

• The product philosophy diverges from typical chatbots: it emphasizes proactivity (observe–act) and persistence (long-term delegated responsibility), extending Perplexity's orchestration capabilities toward agents
• Perplexity uses its own team's real workflows (QA, A/B testing, growth marketing) as case studies, demonstrating agents operating in production environments rather than as concept demos

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