Perplexity Launches AI-Powered Email Assistant
Perplexity has introduced a new AI-powered Email Assistant, designed to help busy professionals manage their inboxes more efficiently.
The tool, available only to the company’s Max subscribers, can draft email replies, organize incoming messages, schedule meetings, and apply smart labels.
What Is the Email Assistant?
The Email Assistant is not just another email filter—it functions like a personal assistant for your inbox.
It integrates directly with Gmail and Outlook, two of the most widely used email platforms worldwide, and works across both desktop and mobile devices.
Unlike basic automation tools, the assistant adapts to each user’s communication style and workflow.
It learns how users typically write emails, mimics their tone, and understands scheduling habits.
This makes it feel less like a robot and more like a human assistant managing your messages.
Key Features
Smart labeling: The assistant automatically tags emails as urgent, completed, requires action, or informational only.
Inbox summaries: Users can ask, “What emails should I read before my board meeting?” or “Summarize all messages about the Q4 budget,” and get quick, accurate answers.
Tone-matched replies: The system drafts responses in the user’s style, making them sound natural rather than robotic.
Meeting coordination: By checking Google Calendar or Microsoft Outlook, the assistant suggests available times, negotiates scheduling conflicts, and sends invites automatically.
Follow-up tracking: It manages replies and reminders so users don’t miss important tasks or deadlines.
Together, these tools are designed to help users achieve the much-desired “inbox zero” goal each day.
How It Works
When added to a conversation, the Email Assistant handles back-and-forth scheduling without user involvement.
For instance, if a client suggests a meeting, the assistant checks the user’s availability, proposes time slots, and finalizes the meeting directly in the calendar.
Each morning, users receive a daily briefing highlighting urgent emails, key meetings, and action items.
For replies, the assistant drafts full emails that users can approve, tweak, or send instantly—removing the biggest bottleneck of getting started.
Pricing and Availability
The Email Assistant is available only to Perplexity Max subscribers, who pay $200 per month.
The premium tier, launched in July 2025, is aimed at power users, teams, and enterprises, not casual consumers.
At launch, the service supports only Gmail and Outlook, though these platforms cover a majority of global email users.
Expansion to other providers has not yet been announced.
Market Positioning and Competition
Perplexity’s move puts it in direct competition with Microsoft Outlook’s Copilot and Google Workspace’s AI features, both of which already offer productivity-focused assistants. But Perplexity’s tool goes further by serving as a dedicated inbox manager, rather than an add-on.
The company estimates the productivity software market is worth over $50 billion and sees its AI agent ecosystem as a way to capture part of it.
The Email Assistant builds on the success of Perplexity’s Comet browser assistant, which reportedly boosted productivity for early adopters by as much as 18 times.
News Gist
Perplexity has launched an AI-powered Email Assistant for its $200/month Max subscribers, automating inbox management with smart labeling, tone-matched replies, meeting scheduling, and daily summaries
It helping professionals save time and achieve “inbox zero” across Gmail and Outlook.
FAQs
Q1. What is the Perplexity Email Assistant?
It’s an AI-powered productivity tool that manages Gmail and Outlook inboxes by drafting replies, organizing emails, scheduling meetings, and applying smart labels.
Q2. Who can use the Email Assistant?
The tool is available only to Perplexity Max subscribers, who pay $200 per month for the premium tier.
Q3. How does the assistant work?
Users activate it by emailing assistant@perplexity.com
. It can then be CC’d into conversations to handle replies, scheduling, and follow-ups automatically.
Q4. What makes it different from other AI email tools?
Unlike simple automation filters, it learns your tone and workflow, drafts natural-sounding responses, and fully automates scheduling and meeting coordination.
Q5. Is my data safe with Perplexity’s Email Assistant?
Perplexity ensures SOC 2 and GDPR compliance, encrypted data transfer, and does not use emails to train AI models.
Q6. Where is the Email Assistant available?
It’s currently available in supported regions, including the U.S. and India, through Perplexity Max subscriptions.
