Perplexity is ready to have enterprises use its AI service even if enterprises may still be wary of delegating tasks to software agents.
The AI search biz on Thursday said Computer for Enterprise is available to enterprise customers.
If you give it access to Gmail, Outlook, GitHub, Linear, Slack, Notion, Snowflake, Databricks, or Salesforce, Computer for Enterprise can interact with the data stored there.
It’s not a computer in the singular sense. It’s a cloud-based web interface for an orchestration layer for running background tasks using AI models and conditional triggers, conducting web research, delegating tasks to sub-agents, connecting to other vendors’ cloud apps, and automating tool use.
Citing an internal study involving more than 16,000 queries, the company claims Computer for Enterprise saved internal teams $1.6 million in labor costs and the equivalent of 3.2 years of work in only four weeks. Absent data and methodological details, it’s difficult to assess that claim.
It’s perhaps easiest to consider what one might ask of Computer for Enterprise. Perplexity has obliged with a library of prompts that one might pose, such as: “Triage weekend support tickets by severity, draft customer responses, write escalation briefs, and package everything into a Monday standup doc.”
Or: “Automate due diligence by fact-checking pitch claims against live data, flagging inconsistencies, and generating annotated reports.”
We wonder aloud whether one can automate due diligence.
Just to confuse matters, on Wednesday, the company launched Personal Computer, the local complement to the cloud-based, non-enterprise service called Computer that debuted last month.
The company’s Personal Computer blog post makes a bold opening gambit by trying to redefine what “computer” means. Perplexity’s cloud-based Computer service, the company insists, is based on a simple idea: “When you have highly accurate AI search, an orchestration harness of 20 frontier models, and agentic internet access, AI is the computer.”
In the case of Personal Computer, the computer is your computer.
“Personal Computer runs on a dedicated Mac mini that can run 24/7, connected to your local apps and Perplexity’s secure servers,” the company explained. “Personal Computer is a digital proxy for you, working constantly on your behalf and allowing you to orchestrate all of your tools, tasks, and files from any device, anywhere.”
You’re right to think that sounds a lot like the kind of thing that can be accomplished with OpenClaw, NanoBot, NanoClaw, PicoClaw, IronClaw, ZeroClaw, NullClaw, or other agentic software projects.
Perplexity claims Personal Computer is secure, without much explanation beyond this assertion: “Sensitive actions require approval, and every session includes a full audit trail. A kill switch gives users immediate control.”
If that’s enough to make you feel safe using this service, the waitlist for access is open. ®