On November 5 Perplexity (@perplexity_ai) and CEO Aravind Srinivas (@AravSrinivas) launched Teammates: persistent personal agents on Computer that own ongoing responsibilities, inherit Projects, Skills, Memory and tool permissions, run in isolated desktops and browsers, collaborate with other teammates, and proactively monitor Slack. Official help docs call it a research preview for individual Max subscribers on the web; Enterprise Pro/Max are not included by default; native mobile and desktop apps are coming later.
Key Takeaways
- ✓Shift from one-shot prompts to high-level goals; a teammate keeps its role until you reassign it (vendor/CEO)
- ✓Multi-agent orchestration, isolated desktop/browser, proactive monitoring of Slack/GitHub/Linear connectors
- ✓Individual Max (~$200/mo, ~10k Computer credits/mo) web research preview; Enterprise not included by default (help center)
- ✓Internal adoption: CEO says ~10k teammates in 30 days (~20x headcount) with ~1k active yesterday (personal claim, not an audit)
- ✓Setup on web: assign role and escalation, take over the desktop, or redirect; shared chats are read-only for others
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Core Background & Industry Pain Points
Chat agents struggle with ongoing duties such as on-call triage, metric watches and PR follow-ups because every new session needs a fresh briefing. On November 5 Perplexity launched Teammates on Computer to make agents persistent digital coworkers.
Architecture Highlights & Internals
Per official help docs, each teammate has its own role, inherits Projects, Skills, Memory and tool permissions, and runs in an isolated desktop and browser. It can split goals across parallel agents, monitor Slack, GitHub and Linear connectors, act when something changes, ping humans in Slack when needed, and use different models per task.
Authoritative Benchmarks & Measured Scores
No independent agent benchmark was published. CEO @AravSrinivas said the internal workspace has about 10,000 teammates in 30 days (~20x headcount) with about 1,000 active yesterday, citing bug triage, QA, security monitoring and similar uses—vendor/personal claims, not an audit.
Developer Hands-on Guide
Individual Max users create a teammate in the web research preview, define the role and escalation rules, start with tightly bounded workflows, and keep human approval for merge-level actions. Watch Usage credits; Enterprise needs an admin request; native mobile and desktop apps are not out yet.
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