Perplexity’s new ‘teammates’ work on their own and can message your coworkers in Slack

Perplexity has introduced “teammates”, AI workers that take on jobs and act proactively using a user’s Computer tasks, skills, memory and tools, the company said in an announcement on X. The most notable detail: they can message coworkers in Slack.

What Perplexity says teammates do

The announcement is a short post with a video. Perplexity wrote: “Teammates work for you. They take on jobs, and work proactively using your Computer tasks, skills, memory, and tools.” It added a second line about collaboration: “Teammates collaborate with other teammates and can message coworkers in Slack.”

Read plainly, that describes three things. A teammate is given a job rather than a single prompt. It draws on what a user has already set up in Computer, Perplexity’s agent product: past tasks, saved skills, stored memory and connected tools. And it does not wait to be asked each time, since the post says it works proactively.

The post also says teammates can work with one another, so one teammate can apparently hand work to another. Reaching out to human colleagues through Slack is the part that moves the agent from a private assistant toward a participant in a team’s channels.

A step from scheduled tasks to standing colleagues

Teammates build on pieces Perplexity has been adding to Computer. In a blog post dated September 29, 2026, the company announced Automations, which run long-lived agents on a schedule or in response to events, with each run picking up from earlier work. That already gave Computer a way to act without a fresh prompt. Teammates, as described, add a persistent identity on top: a worker with memory and skills that can also coordinate with others.

Slack is also familiar territory for the company. Perplexity says in a blog post on Computer in Slack that Computer began as an internal tool and first lived in a shared Slack channel. According to that post, in its first four weeks as only a Slack integration it performed $1.6M of work for 300 Perplexity employees. That is Perplexity’s own figure, and the method behind the dollar value is the company’s, not an independent measurement.

The technical difficulty is less about generating text than about keeping an agent useful over time. An agent that acts unprompted has to decide when something is worth doing, remember what it already did, and avoid interrupting people for no reason. Messaging human coworkers raises the stakes: a wrong or badly timed message lands in front of a real person, not in a private chat log. The post does not say how teammates decide when to message people, whether a human must approve outgoing messages, or what permissions they run with.

What the announcement leaves open

The post does not say who can use teammates today, on which plan, or at what price. Perplexity’s help center says Computer for Enterprise can be switched on for chosen members or disabled for everyone by administrators, but nothing in the source confirms how teammates will be governed. For context, our earlier guide to Perplexity pricing covers the Pro plan at $20 and Max at $200, though it is not established which tier, if any, will include teammates.

Also missing are usage limits, how much a teammate costs to run, whether it works outside Slack, and any benchmark or example showing accuracy on real jobs. All descriptions of what teammates can do come from Perplexity’s single post and have not been independently verified. The company’s official page could not be retrieved in full, so this report rests on the post text and Perplexity’s earlier published material.

For readers already using Perplexity for research, the change is a shift in who starts the work. Until now Computer mostly responded to requests or ran scheduled automations. Teammates point to agents that hold ongoing responsibilities and talk to colleagues. How well that works will depend on details Perplexity has not yet published. For how the company’s search product compares with rivals, see our Perplexity and ChatGPT comparison.