ConnectHubPerplexity launches Teammates, agents for ongoing work
Always-on agents watch your tools, split work into parallel tasks and bring finished results back for review.
Agents that own a job, not a prompt
Perplexity has launched Teammates, AI agents built for work that continues over days and weeks rather than a single request. They run on top of Perplexity Computer, its existing agent product. You give a teammate a role and a goal, and it plans the work, checks its own results along the way and brings finished work back for you to review.
Teammates remember the project's goals, past tasks and shared files between runs, so each task builds on the last. They also learn from feedback. Perplexity's example: tell an operations teammate that a supplier needs two weeks' notice, and it will plan around that from then on.
What a teammate might do
Perplexity describes a few roles:
- Marketing: runs social posts, email, ads and SEO, watches campaigns and competitor promotions, and drafts fixes when results drop.
- Sales: finds opportunities in enquiries, past orders and stalled conversations, prepares outreach and quotes, and follows up.
- Customer support: reviews each day's complaints, summarises trends, flags cases that need a personal reply from the CEO and drafts it.
- Operations: tracks deadlines, checklists, suppliers and paperwork, and chases missing items when a deadline is about 72 hours away.
Watching, splitting and handing off work
Teammates don't wait to be asked. They watch ongoing work and act when something changes. For example, a sales teammate might notice that a regular customer has stopped ordering, look through their order and support history, and then draft an offer or flag a problem to fix first.
One teammate can run several Computer sessions and coordinate with other teammates at the same time, and pass work between them, for instance one finding bugs on a website and another preparing fixes. Colleagues can add a teammate to a Slack channel, give it work and ask for updates. It connects to tools such as Slack, GitHub and Gmail, and for GitHub you choose exactly which repositories it can see.
Isolation and control
Each teammate runs in its own environment, with browser sessions kept separate from other teammates, and follows the permissions already set in Perplexity Computer. Saved credentials are encrypted. You can review work, take over the teammate's desktop or redirect it in the middle of a task.
Perplexity's post does not say how much a teammate can do before it needs approval, or what the usage limits are.
Access and price
Teammates launched on the web for individual Perplexity Max subscribers, with an iOS app planned. Max costs $200 a month or $2,000 a year, and Enterprise plans are not included by default. According to TechRepublic, new teammates use Claude Opus 5.5 by default, and you can choose a different model per teammate or per task. Perplexity says access and features will expand over the coming weeks.
Why it matters for your business
Always-on agents are becoming normal. Perplexity, Anthropic and others now sell agents that watch your tools and act when something changes, not just when you type a request.
For a business, the real question is which recurring work to hand over, and with what limits, rather than which app to buy. The roles Perplexity describes, like chasing missing paperwork, spotting customers who have stopped ordering or summarising complaints, are the same jobs we automate with n8n and agents connected to your own systems.
Its gaps are worth noticing too: it says little about approval rules or usage limits. Before giving any agent ongoing access to your Slack, email or code, decide what it may do alone and what needs a person.
What to do next
- List the recurring jobs that someone on your team chases every week
- For each job, decide what an agent may do alone and what needs approval
- Start with one read-and-report job before any job that sends or changes things
