Intuit and Perplexity Team on AI Integrations

QuickBooks and Mailchimp maker Intuit has launched a partnership with artificial intelligence (AI) startup Perplexity.

The collaboration, announced in a Monday (Aug. 31) news release , will integrate those two pieces of business software into Perplexity Computer, the company’s agentic AI assistant.

The integration is designed to bridge the “gap between finding answers to getting personalized insights and taking decisive action,” Intuit Chief Technology Officer Alex Balazs said.

“By pairing their AI platform with the rich data and deep domain expertise behind our trusted financial system of intelligence, we’re empowering customers to seamlessly execute complex tasks to successfully run and grow their businesses.”

The partnership uses model context protocol (MCP) connectors letting customers access Intuit’s business systems within their Perplexity workflow.

According to the release, this integration allows business owners to manage cash flow, retrieve employee information and run marketing campaigns from the Perplexity interface.

Among the functions the companies mention are cash flow management tasks, such as following up on overdue invoices, setting up recurring billing, and distributing payment links.

For workforce management, users can retrieve pay slips and access employee payroll information. On the marketing side, the integration lets businesses track campaign performance and analyze data to identify actions that can generate revenue.

With the integration, businesses can put that “expertise and intelligence to work for them in Perplexity Computer, going from research and answers to securely executing financial actions,” said Dmitry Shevelenko, chief business officer at Perplexity.

The partnership follows a report from last week by The Information that chipmaker Nvidia was in talks to invest billions of dollars in Perplexity, with that funding valuing the company at upwards of $30 billion.

The same report noted that Perplexity’s annualized revenue had climbed to more than $750 million from less than $250 million at the start of the year, due in part to Perplexity Computer.

In other agentic AI news, PYMNTS wrote Monday about the technology’s impact on corporate treasury departments.

“Corporate treasury sits at the intersection of every financial decision and every risk a company carries,” that report said. “The tools have improved over the years. The decisions have stayed human. Agentic artificial intelligence is beginning to change that.”

AI agents are now carrying out core treasury functions autonomously, a shift that is “happening inside central bank research, inside corporate treasury teams across EMEA, and inside the largest banks in the world,” according to the report.