Perplexity’s New AI Agent Automates Email Management for Max Subscribers

Perplexity has launched an AI-powered Email Assistant for Max subscribers. Perplexity Email Assistant is an AI-powered tool that serves as a powerful personal assistant for user emails. According to Gadget360, this is the first time that Perplexity is entering the workspace automation space since it launched its Comet web browser back in July 2025.

Boosting Email Productivity

Perplexity AI email agent is designed to help users get more done in their inboxes. The AI startup says the new AI tool can perform a range of services including drafting email replies, scheduling meetings, and organizing emails. The email agent can also summarize email messages, label emails, and generate a summary of tasks to be completed for the day.

“Your inbox deserves intelligent partnership, which is why we’ve built Perplexity Email Assistant which connects directly with your email account across your phone and computer,” Perplexity said in a statement posted on its website.

Perplexity Max plan features also include user interaction capabilities, allowing users to ask questions or add suggestions on the emails they wish to prioritize. Currently, the tool allows users to operate across email platforms through Perplexity Gmail and Outlook integration.

Perplexity has been consistent in adding new features on its platform. In 2024, the AI startup added a shopping feature on its platform in a bid to attract users to its platform and compete with Google. The shopping feature served as a one-stop solution, allowing users to research and buy products on the platform.

Bringing Personalization to Emails

Perplexity’s email agent is also designed for personalization. According to the AI startup, the AI agent personalizes emails for users by learning their communication style and priorities and generating responses matching the user’s tone.

The email agent also aligns meeting time proposals with user calendar preferences, enabling users to save time on routine tasks.

“When someone requests a meeting, just add the Perplexity Email Assistant to the thread. Perplexity checks your calendar, suggests available times, and sends meeting invites automatically,” Perplexity explained in a statement.

Perplexity AI subscription benefits are only accessible to users who pay $200 per month. The timing of Perplexity’s email assistant launch appears strategic. In August 2025, Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas said that AI agents such as those in its Comet browser are capable of automating two tasks with a single prompt. The new email agent is designed to do this as it handles routine communications that consume hours of employee time each day.

On the browser front, Perplexity is taking on Google and Apple. Web browsers are at the heart of AI supremacy because they serve as gateways for accessing content online. Last week, Google added Gemini AI to Chrome browser for U.S. users. Inclusion of the AI tool in Chrome is aimed at boosting Google’s competitiveness against AI startups like Perplexity and OpenAI.

Entering the Productivity Market

With the new email AI agent, Perplexity makes an entry into the productivity market where it will be competing against tech companies like Microsoft and Google by launching the new email agent. For a long time, productivity tools developed by these tech giants have dominated the corporate email and calendar management industry.

With the new AI-powered email assistant, Perplexity is looking to capture a fraction of the approximately $50 billion productivity software market. Embedding AI directly into workflows also enables it to advance its ambition of replacing conventional search with AI-powered solutions. Earlier this month, Perplexity raised $200 million in a bid to position itself as a competitive alternative to conventional search engines.

The company says it uses enterprise-grade encryption for all data that the AI analyzes. Perplexity added that such data is never used to train models. Perplexity has also emphasized compliance and security, saying sensitive information would be treated with the same care as enterprise-grade systems. This makes its email assistant suitable for regulated industries as well as everyday business use.