Perplexity Teammates Now Available in the Mac App

Perplexity Teammates, the company’s AI agents for ongoing work, are now available in the Perplexity Mac app for Max subscribers. Each Teammate keeps one persistent thread, runs on its own desktop and browser, and pings you only when a decision is yours. Teammates launched on the web as a research preview for individual Max subscribers on November 4, and Perplexity announced the Mac release on X on November 13. They run on Perplexity Computer, which already runs fully local on Mac, and add multi-agent orchestration, full desktop and browser use and proactive monitoring.

Perplexity Teammates Take Over Ongoing Work

You give a Teammate a responsibility, such as managing a growth campaign, triaging incoming bug reports, tracking your metrics or researching a new market. It breaks the goal into tasks, runs independent tasks in parallel with separate agents and checks the results before returning finished work, such as a report, a pull request or a configuration change, for your review. A Teammate keeps working after the work ships. It keeps monitoring, updates the result based on what it finds, and holds on to project goals, task history and shared files across runs. In one of Perplexity’s demos, an on-call engineer Teammate watches Datadog monitors overnight, traces a failing deploy to a zero retry budget and opens a fix with a rollback plan, then waits for your approval before anything ships.

Teammates are now available in the Perplexity Mac app for Max subscribers. Teammates take on work for you. They work individually or with other teammates to handle QA, customer service, research, growth marketing, and more. https://t.co/IDmvATZaJ6

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Teammates Cover Business Roles

A job description can name where the work comes from, what the Teammate should deliver, when it acts and who reads the result. Teammates can also work alongside each other on jobs like QA, customer service, research and growth marketing.

• Marketing Teammates manage social posts, email, ads and SEO, and draft fixes when campaign results slip.
• Sales Teammates find opportunities in inquiries and stalled conversations, prepare outreach and quotes, and follow up on replies.
• Customer support Teammates review daily complaints, summarize trends and flag the cases that need a personal response.
• Operations Teammates track deadlines, vendors and paperwork, and follow up on missing items when a deadline is 72 hours away.
• Engineering Teammates triage bugs and prepare fixes, and one Teammate can hand its findings to another.

Setup Starts in the Sidebar

To create a Teammate, you hover over Teammates in the sidebar and select the plus button. You name it, choose an appearance, describe the job with a schedule if the work repeats, select Create and finish setup in the chat that opens. Each Teammate then sits in your sidebar next to your projects and history, and you can ask for a status update or change its plans from that thread at any time. Teammates use the plugins and skills you have installed with the same permissions, and you connect a new service such as Slack by asking the Teammate in its chat. For GitHub you choose which repositories it can reach, and adding a Teammate to a Slack channel lets your colleagues assign it tasks or request updates. Saved credentials are encrypted, and each Teammate runs on its own isolated computer with its own browser sessions and cookies. New Teammates use Claude Opus 5.5 by default, and you can pick a different model for each Teammate or for different tasks. Perplexity suggests stronger models for planning and hard decisions and cheaper, faster ones for routine work. A correction you make in a Teammate’s chat is applied to its later work.

Max Subscription Required

Teammates need an individual Perplexity Max subscription, which costs $200 per month or $2,000 per year. Pro is not included, and Enterprise Pro and Enterprise Max are not included by default, so enterprise users have to ask their organization admin for access. Teammates are still a research preview, so their behavior may change. For a promotional period every Max plan includes free Teammate usage, and after that Teammates draw on the monthly credits that come with Max. Complex projects use more credits, especially with parallel agents, large codebases or frequent automations, and you can check usage on the Usage page. Android is next, and Perplexity lists it as coming soon. Teammates join other agents that already run on the Mac, with Grok Bot on Mac working across seven built-in apps and Meta’s Muse app for Mac covering Mail, Messages, Calendar and Notes.