The setting
develops an AI answer engine that searches the web and replies with cited sources. is the version for large organizations, including regulated industries, with administrator controls over access and use.
Role-limited Computer access needs a promise that matches the permissions customers can actually enforce.
Regulated administrators need narrow control over tool actions, while commercial terms must remain reusable across enterprise deployments.
Who you’d be doing this for
“My security lead asked who can use Computer on Monday, and I still don’t have a clean answer.”
Petros Caruso · IT Administrator · a character in this brief
Administers identity, roles, permissions, and policy controls for a regulated enterprise workspace.
What is at stake
Regulated IT administrators cannot yet govern Computer access by role. You must decide which controls belong in reusable terms and which require customer-specific approval.
Why it isn’t already fixed
Every obvious fix costs something else. That’s the part you’d have to decide.
- role-specific access vs reusable enterprise terms
- administrator control vs commercial simplicity
- launch momentum vs verified commitments
- customer flexibility vs consistent risk allocation
Why Perplexity
Computer and Enterprise Pro share the governed enterprise environment where permissions, policies, and contractual commitments must align.
Written with these in mind
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Where the organization context comes fromThe postings this brief was written from, and the reporting read before it.
The organization context comes from public information. The situation and characters are written for the brief.
Job postings it was written from
Public descriptions of the work at Perplexity. They are listed as sources, not as openings. The lines under a posting are its own words, where it meets this brief.
- Legal Response Specialist (opens in a new tab)
- Escalate matters requiring legal interpretation or disclosure of user information.
- Senior Commercial Counsel, Enterprise (opens in a new tab)
- Advise on AI-specific contract terms for enterprise deployments, including bespoke data postures; negotiate output ownership and liability, agentic-feature risk allocation and translate product operations into enterprise contract commitments.
- You default to enabling the business, frame risk in practical terms, and focus on durable structures rather than one‑off fixes.
- Commercial Counsel/Senior Counsel (opens in a new tab)
- Advise on AI-specific legal considerations in commercial agreements, including acceptable use, data retention and training restrictions, output liability, and evolving regulatory requirements (e.g., EU AI Act, CCPA/CPRA, GDPR).
- Build and maintain scalable legal infrastructure—contract templates, negotiation playbooks, fallback positions, and tools (e.g., CLM, self-serve workflows)—to support high-volume deal flow and reduce friction in the contracting cycle.
This is the setup. The work is inside.
Running it puts you in the room: the full situation and its constraints, stakeholders who push back in their own words, and the decisions that are yours to make. What you produce becomes a Day One Plan — work you can show someone instead of describing.
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