Asana launches AI ‘chief of staff’ to keep projects on track
Asana has launched an AI personal assistant that can track various data sources to alerts users when a work project runs into problems and recommends next actions. It’s one of a range of product announcements made Thursday at the company’s Work Innovation Summit in London, including updates to its existing AI teammates product. These follow Asana’s recent acquisition of AI workflow automation software vendor StackAI for $75 million. Asana Dash is described as an “AI chief of staff” that can help users stay up to date on work projects by accessing information in Asana as well as across email, calendar and team messaging apps, said Arnab Bose, Asana’s chief product officer. “Keeping people in their ‘zone of genius’ and hooking up all of these unstructured signals to the structure of Asana — that’s what Dash does best,” said Bose. The AI assistant can access the same Asana project information as the user, and can flag when problems occur that could push a project off-track. Dash can then