Perplexity on November 5, 2026 started rolling out Teammates, a research preview of persistent personal agents aimed at ongoing work rather than one-off chat sessions. The Verge and Digital Trends reported the launch the same day, citing Perplexity's first-party announcement and comments from CEO Aravind Srinivas. Perplexity's own blog dates the product post November 4; this run uses the November 5 press report dates for the freshness window.
Teammates sit on top of Perplexity Computer, the Max-tier multi-model agent environment. Perplexity says each Teammate keeps a role, memory and project context, can coordinate other agents, monitor connected tools such as Slack, GitHub and Linear, and bring finished work back for human review. Digital Trends quotes Srinivas describing them as persistent coworkers that take responsibilities end to end instead of vanishing after a sandbox job. Press accounts also say teammates can learn from corrections, work in their own desktop environments, and let coworkers hand off tasks inside Slack channels they watch.
Access is narrow at launch. Independent coverage says Teammates require Perplexity's $200 per month Max plan, start on the web, and are slated for iOS and other native apps later. Help-center material indexed for this run describes the preview as aimed at individual Max subscribers, with Enterprise Pro and Enterprise Max not included by default.
The Verge places Teammates next to OpenAI workspace agents and Anthropic coworker-style products, noting Perplexity's version is sold as always-on work agents that can run multiple jobs at once. Perplexity examples cited in press include marketing, sales, support and operations tasks such as triage, QA loops, security monitoring and campaign follow-ups. Those capability claims are Perplexity's.
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For an agents desk, Teammates matter as another major assistant vendor shipping durable, tool-connected workers rather than session chat. The Max paywall and research-preview caveat keep the launch from reading as a general consumer rollout. Still, the combination of Computer connectors, multi-agent orchestration and always-on ownership is a clear product bet on persistent agents as the next interface after search and chat.