Meet Perplexity Email Assistant: An AI Agent that Filters Emails, Drafts Responses, and Schedules Meetings

Perplexity AI is on a roll. The AI company has been making headlines after headlines recently, first by offering to buy Google Chrome, then launching its own agentic AI browser, and now, Perplexity has launched an email assistant. This new email assistant by Perplexity connects with your Gmail and Outlook accounts to sort what's urgent, what needs your response, what's FYI, drafts replies in your voice, and even runs the back-and-forth to land a meeting. Perplexity's email assistant is the latest sign of an "agentic" tool taking initiative in a real-world task rather than just generating text.

What is Perplexity Email Assistant?

The Perplexity Email Assistant is designed to be a proactive helper, a tool that handles your meeting scheduling, drafting replies, and clearing priorities on your behalf. This new assistant changes how we approach emails; rather than the traditional question-and-answer format, the AI email assistant makes it a more integrated and action-oriented approach.

The company's vision is to create an assistant that can seamlessly interact with other applications on your device, effectively becoming a main hub for your daily tasks that involve interacting with emails.

Pricing and availability:

Before you get too excited to try this new AI assistant, there is an important caveat on access and price. At launch, Email Assistant is available only to Perplexity Max subscribers (a premium tier priced at $200/month) and supports Gmail and Outlook. As of now, the AI email assistant is squarely in the "power user and teams" bracket, not available to the mass market.

So, what can this new assistant actually do?

Here's a breakdown of its key features:

• Inbox sorting with smart labels: Automatically tags threads by urgency and intent, so you can see what needs a reply and what's just informational. This is helpful for anyone drowning in CCs and status pings.

• Drafts in your tone: The assistant drops reply drafts directly in the thread, adapting to your style so you can edit and send instead of starting from a blank page.

• Scheduling without the ping-pong: Add Email assistant to the thread, and it checks calendars, proposes times, and books meetings on your behalf.

• Daily briefing and search: You can start every day prepared with summaries of meetings, key emails, and daily priorities right from Perplexity without needing to comb through threads to figure out what to do first.

• Two-click setup; CC workflow: You can start from Perplexity's "Gmail" or "Outlook" buttons, and you can also interact by CC'ing the assistant on a thread when you want it to take over.

For example, as I chose Gmail, it will ask you to connect Perplexity with Gmail and Google Calendar, then give it all the required permissions to get started.

Perplexity's approach with its new email assistant is a clear indication of the direction the AI industry is heading. It's no longer enough for an AI to be a passive source of information. The future lies in creating proactive, integrated tools that can simplify our digital lives.

Who should try it

• Leaders with overloaded inboxes who regularly delegate scheduling and triage.
• Sales, BD, and support roles that live in email and need faster follow-ups.
• Small teams willing to pilot on a few seats to measure response time and meeting-booking lift.

In Conclusion:

Email remains the main mode of business communication. However, we all know how it can be too tiring most of the time; hence, a tool like Perplexity Email Assistant can be a real game-changer. It can draft emails in your tone, summarize everything to help you be prepared, schedule meetings for you, sort your emails for you, and more.

We are not saying Perplexity has just reinvented email, but it definitely has made it actionable by offering a pragmatic AI "agent" that can be added to your email threads and instantly start performing tasks on your behalf. If your day begins and ends in Gmail or Outlook and you have a Perplexity Max subscription, this is worth trying, especially when every saved minute compounds into real outcomes.