Computer at Work

Last month, we launched Computer for Enterprise.  Last night, we met with a gathering of enterprise and finance leaders in NYC to learn how it’s become an integral part of their workflows. We also shared a preview of what’s coming: more integrations, data connectors, and workflow tools built around how teams actually work.

Work is accelerating

Our data show something that shouldn't come as a surprise: a large volume of enterprise tasks start as a question one colleague asks another. Plenty of teams already reach for Computer inside Slack, where a single thread doubles as a record of how a coworker prompted it last week and a starting point for the next person with a similar task. (In fact, the first prototype of Computer was born in Slack).

Today we are bringing that same experience to Microsoft Teams, where Computer can now be messaged directly or pulled into a channel without leaving the conversation. According to Microsoft, Teams has over 350 million monthly active users worldwide.

The next surfaces are the documents and spreadsheets where ideas turn into deliverables. Computer in Excel is now in beta as a native side panel. This lets an analyst keep working in the model in front of them and ask for help in place.

There’s another pattern in enterprise and finance work: the same handful of jobs come up over and over inside a team. 

A team in private equity repeatedly looks for signals in the same market segment to source deals, a sales team prepares for calls or cold outreach, a marketing team constantly evaluates competitive positioning. By any name, these are “workflows.”

Today we are launching workflows in Computer. Workflows bundle the prompt, context, and output format for a specific enterprise task into a single starting point.

We are growing a library of workflows that currently contains more than 70. Your teams can share, customize, schedule, and run them asynchronously, so the work continues even when the person who kicked it off has moved on to the next project.

Data access and oversight

For nearly every business, this kind of work with Computer only goes so far. Invariably, the best answers require deeper integration with the business, because the underlying data is the company's. That data lives behind a license, or inside a credentialed system. 

A lot of what we previewed in New York was about that stretch. Computer now has new data connectors with Snowflake and Databricks that are modeled on our custom hard-coded data connections we use internally at Perplexity.  We can attest to the results. Teams can ask questions and run tasks against internal data without copying it between systems, or without making a data science team the bottleneck for most requests. 

Also new to Computer is identity security. Through a new partnership with 1Password, Computer can act on behalf of a user without the underlying credentials ever touching the agent or the model, with actions that stay authorized, governed, and auditable.

Increasingly, Perplexity has become the preferred AI in professional finance. General-purpose tools take a finance team only so far when deliverables have to be sourced, audited, and tied to specific vendors. 

This week we announced the beginning of Computer for Professional Finance. It is built around that reality. It pulls from licensed providers: Morningstar, PitchBook, Daloopa, and Carbon Arc, or uses Computer's off-the-shelf tools directly, with no separate license required. It can produce tearsheets, annotated stock charts, and equity research comparisons where every figure links back to where it came from. It runs inside Excel as well, alongside the models analysts already live in. Similar depth is in progress for other domains where the work is structured enough to reward it.

A personal computer when AI is the computer

Finally, all work must come together in a new model of the computer. Computing is shifting from instruction-based systems to objective-based systems. This means work will happen across more devices, be more continuously running, and not always require your constant monitoring.

Personal Computer is the future of work. It brings multi-model orchestration to your own machine, working across local files, apps, and the web in one system. On a Mac mini, it runs 24/7, letting you begin work from your phone and come back to it done. 

All of the above is rolling out to Enterprise customers now. Computer in Excel is in beta, with broader access coming in the near term.