Perplexity says its Teammates feature lets Max subscribers give agents ongoing assignments through persistent threads and background work. Slack followups are part of the design, but the supplied launch material does not establish customer adoption, reliability or productivity gains.
Perplexity has launched Teammates on the web for Max subscribers. The company says each teammate keeps a dedicated thread open, works in the background and brings people into decisions as needed. On its Teammates product page, Perplexity says users can inspect the work and revise a plan. The news is the proposed continuity of an assignment, not a demonstrated change in how businesses operate.
What stays active
Perplexity says teammates can cooperate with one another, use existing projects and skills, monitor work and follow up with coworkers through Slack. The examples include advertising, engineering, quality assurance, legal research and store operations. These are intended uses in a product description, not independently measured customer results.
Each teammate has its own desktop and browser session, according to Perplexity, and inherits permissions and local cookies from a user's setup. For a business, that raises operational questions about what an agent may do without fresh approval and when a person must intervene. The cited description does not quantify approval requests, failures or time saved.
Slack is a separate evidence trail
Perplexity says teammates can contact coworkers through Slack. A separate Slack product page describes Computer creating and carrying out workflows initiated in Slack, connecting to Snowflake, Salesforce, HubSpot and Notion, and working for hours while maintaining context. Those Computer claims should not be mistaken for Teammates customer usage.
The Slack page says a paid Slack plan is required and lists multiple eligible Perplexity subscription tiers. That is a separate eligibility description from Teammates' web launch for Max subscribers.
Perplexity also reports that its internal Slack integration produced $1.6 million of work for 300 employees during its first four weeks. The supplied material does not define how this work was valued, identify an audited saving or specify a comparison with work done without the integration. The number cannot show that Teammates saves customers money or has reached a given revenue scale.
Scenarios for customers
If ongoing agents complete bounded tasks and ask people to intervene at the right point, teams could use them for repeat assignments without beginning a fresh conversation. If review and handoffs consume substantial staff time, persistence could create more oversight work instead. Both are conditional outcomes, not findings from this launch.
Evidence to watch
A named customer disclosure would need to distinguish completed tasks from those requiring correction, report usage and reliability, and identify cost and paid deployment. The supplied pages give no date for such evidence. For now, Perplexity has launched a persistent workflow for Max users; its enterprise productivity impact remains unmeasured in the material provided.