Perplexity

What a member can do

• Search the web and get ranked results.
• Ask a question and get an answer grounded in live web search.
• Run deep research on a complex topic and get an analysis with citations.
• Work through a reasoning problem with a reasoning model.

Each task names the Perplexity tools it may call. perplexity on a task means every tool the Perplexity server offers; a name such as perplexity.<tool> means that tool alone. A tool the task does not name is refused, whatever the connection allows.

Who connects it

A Perplexity connection acts as the Perplexity account that signed in when it was connected. It can do what that account can do, and no more.

Anyone who may change tools in your enterprise can connect Perplexity for a member or a team. Connecting it for the whole enterprise is for the owner, and the people the owner allows.

A connection can sit on the enterprise, a team, a member, a role or a task, and the one further down replaces the one above: task, then role, then member, then team, then enterprise. A connection on anything but a task also reaches the chat of every member it covers.

What waits for you

In a run, nothing on Perplexity waits for you unless the task declares a gate on it. To approve each change before it happens, gate the tools that change something on the task. See Gates and tool scopes.

In a chat, a Perplexity tool that its server does not mark as read-only asks you before it runs, unless you chose Always allow for that member and tool.

Setup

Before you connect

Tool calls are billed at Perplexity's standard API pricing. The person who signs in must be an admin of a Perplexity API organisation that can pay for usage.

Connect it

Perplexity is an Express tool, so there is no server address, key or app to set up. Work in one browser window throughout: the sign-in returns to the portal in the window you started from.

1. In the portal, open the member's page → Tools. To connect it for a team or the whole enterprise, open Tools in the sidebar.
2. Under Express, find Perplexity and choose Connect. On the Tools page you are asked who uses it: one member, a team or the whole enterprise.
3. Perplexity's sign-in opens. Sign in with the account the member should work as, and approve what it asks for.
4. You are back on Tools, and Perplexity shows as connected.
5. Name the tools on the task, perplexity for all of them or each by name.
6. Check it. Run a task that reads something from Perplexity. The run page shows the call and what came back.

You can take the access back at any time: delete the connection on Tools, or remove Zero Human OS from the connected apps in your Perplexity account.

A first task to try

With Perplexity connected, give a member a task that uses it. For example:

When I give you a topic, research it and write a one-page briefing with citations.

Start this task in the portal. It opens a conversation with your COO with the request written out. Read it, change what you like and send it. The COO asks what it still needs to know, then proposes the task for you to approve: its name, who owns it, its guardrails, the Perplexity tools it may use and its instructions. Nothing is created until you approve it.