Asana Unveils Human-Centric AI Features to Revolutionize Collaborative Work Management

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June 1, 2023

Asana, the leading work management platform, has announced a significant leap forward in its product capabilities with the introduction of generative artificial intelligence features. This development, known as Asana Intelligence, is set to transform the way organizations manage their work, making decision-making faster, productivity higher, and focus sharper.

Asana Intelligence: A New Era of AI-First Product

Asana Intelligence is a groundbreaking feature that makes enterprise AI capabilities a core part of Asana’s work management platform. By leveraging the Asana Work Graph®, a foundational tool for facilitating human and AI collaboration, Asana Intelligence provides real-time insights into team, project, and business health. This empowers organizations to make faster, more informed decisions, boosting productivity and accelerating business outcomes.

Dustin Moskovitz, Co-Founder and CEO of Asana, stated, “Asana is an AI-first product now and we intend to help customers maximize impact by weaving AI into the fabric of our architecture. We see a future where AI and human ingenuity combine to radically improve the lives of individuals and how teams work together, unleashing the full potential of every business and organization.”

Powering Human-AI Collaboration

Asana Intelligence is designed to support individuals and teams in achieving their best work and maintaining focus on what truly matters. It combines the power of artificial intelligence with the Asana Work Graph®, a rich, connected map of an organization’s work data, to amplify the impact of teams.

The new features introduced with Asana Intelligence include:

  • Goal-based resource management: This feature monitors team capacity and intelligently surfaces resource recommendations based on changing business priorities.
  • Health check (beta): This tool identifies unseen issues and roadblocks, enabling efficient progress toward company objectives.
  • Self-optimizing workflows: This feature creates automated plans based on goals and suggests workflow improvements to achieve results faster.
  • Writing assistant (beta): This tool enhances communication clarity and tone.
  • Instant summaries (beta): This feature transcribes and summarizes action items and highlights from meetings, tasks, and comment threads.
  • Ask Asana anything (beta): This tool offers timely answers and insights on projects without additional meetings.
  • Work organizer (beta): This feature auto-generates custom fields, smart rules, and suggestions to add structure to projects.

Asana’s AI Principles

Asana has also outlined a set of artificial intelligence principles that guide its research and development efforts. These principles emphasize the company’s commitment to using AI to help humanity thrive, ensuring AI safety and transparency in practice and in product. The principles focus on AI’s role in helping people achieve their goals, designing for human + AI teams, accountability for decisions, commitment to safety, and promoting transparency.

About Asana

Asana is a work management platform that helps organizations orchestrate their work, from small projects to strategic initiatives. With millions of users in over 200 countries and territories, Asana is trusted by global customers such as Amazon, Affirm, Japan Airlines, and Sky to manage everything from company objectives to digital transformation to product launches and marketing campaigns.

Asana’s latest product capabilities are a testament to its commitment to leading the second wave of digital transformation. With Asana Intelligence, the company is set to redefine the future of work, where AI and human ingenuity combine to create a more productive and efficient work environment.