Rings AI connector brings team relationship data into Perplexity Computer

What the connector does

According to the announcement, Perplexity Computer plans and carries out multi-step work across tools and apps. Examples include researching markets, companies and people, prioritizing a target list, preparing for a board meeting, or creating a deliverable. The Rings connector adds the context held inside a team: existing relationships, past meetings and emails, notes, opportunities, and recommended introduction paths through colleagues and shared contacts.

Joint customers can ask who knows whom, how strong those relationships are, what has happened across the firm, and where active opportunities stand. Teams can use the information both to build new relationships and to manage existing ones, including with clients, portfolio companies, investors and partners.

Where the relationship data comes from

The companies say a firm's relationship and activity history rarely sits in one system. CRM records capture only part of it, and the rest is spread across individual inboxes, calendars, meeting notes and the people who hold the relationships.

Rings captures that activity automatically from email and calendar and combines it into a shared relationship graph, which it describes as a source of truth for the team's relationship and activity history. A measure called PathPower® rates relationship strength across the graph. According to Rings, the data is offered on a privacy-first basis: each user's existing permissions are preserved, and firms have controls over what activity is shared.

Example requests

The announcement lists sample prompts, noting that results depend on the data and permissions in a user's Rings account.

• Investment teams: ask who on the team knows a company's founders, executives or investors, how strong those ties are, and what the best path to an introduction is.
• Business development and partnerships: prioritize 20 target companies by relationship strength, show the best introduction path into each, and draft a note to the colleague who holds it.
• Client coverage and account teams: review priority accounts, summarize recent activity, show which colleagues have the strongest relationships, and flag accounts with no recorded activity in the last 90 days.
• Portfolio work: summarize the firm's history with a portfolio company before a board meeting, then save notes and create a follow-up task.

Comments and availability

Martin Gedalin, co-founder and CEO of Rings AI, said Perplexity Computer can tell a team a great deal about a company from the outside, while "Rings holds what the team knows from the inside." He added that much of that knowledge never makes it into a CRM.

Jeff Grimes, Head of Live Events Products at Perplexity, said bringing that context into Computer means teams can go from identifying a promising company to finding a trusted introduction and drafting the request. Katya Kohen, Managing Director, Venture and Fund Banking at Stifel, said Rings helps the bank use its collective relationships to find the best paths into its most important current and prospective business opportunities.

The connector is available to Perplexity Pro, Max, Enterprise Pro and Enterprise Max subscribers. Joint customers connect their existing Rings account, and the connector is included with every Rings plan at no additional charge.

What it means for teams

For firms already using Rings, the connector means relationship data can be used inside Perplexity Computer workflows without a separate step. Rings says it is used by venture capital, private equity, investment banking and fintech firms, as well as business development teams in other industries, and that it is SOC 2 Type II compliant and certified under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework. Teams that want to try it can request a demo through Rings AI.