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The MIT roboticist who taught machines to see - then built StackAI so enterprises could deploy AI agents that act. Acquired by Asana for $75M.

The no-code platform that let non-engineers build, deploy, and govern enterprise AI agents - acquired by Asana in 2026.

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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 act to address problems, such as posting messages within Asana on behalf of the user or directing an AI teammate to take action. (Dash will ask the user before making any changes.) “Asana is building on recent acquisitions, and earlier investment in a graph database focused on human connections — the Asana Work Graph — and its position within a well-integrated flow of work to deliver to each worker an executive assistant rooted in the context of their job,” said Wayne Kurtzman, IDC research vice president. The Dash personal assistant is enabled by an expanded Asana work graph — the data model related to work carried out by teams in the application. Asana has in the past been more focused on tasks, projects, portfolios, and goals, said Bose, but the work graph now includes new sources of data, linking to employee calendars and accessing meeting transcripts, for instance, alongside other documents and databases. There are also updates to the AI teammates feature — collaborative AI agents that multiple human coworkers can interact with — which are now more powerful, said Bose. This includes additional skills and integrations with third-party apps such as Gmail, Slack, Outlook, Figma, and Canva. As for the StackAI acquisition, Bose said it allows Asana to extend the reach of AI agents into a variety of business apps more easily and reliably, building ] on Asana’s “system of action” function. The latter tracks work carried out across an organization, he said, and can automate the complex processes that make up many enterprise workflows. “If you look at StackAI’s website, the thing that they are really, really great at is building these complex, multi-step processes,” said Bose. The aim is to combine StackAI’s agent builder with integration expertise agents already available in Asana. “So, the idea is when an AI teammate or Dash recommends the next best action, they will be able to choose downstream actions based on the portfolio of approved workflows that you’ve built out in StackAI.” Overall, the announcements help Asana provide a platform that combines agents and workflow automation with AI assistance that aids humans to work more effectively, said Bose. “Our terminology for this is a ‘human-agent operating system,’ because automation, I feel, is a little reductive in the sense that there are some things that are fully automated, but a lot that you’d want a human being and an AI agent to coordinate on and align on,” he said. Asana did not immediately respond to a request for pricing and availability details for Dash.

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In the span of 24 hours this week, two incumbent software companies each paid to own a different layer of the enterprise AI agent stack — and together, the purchases sketch what that stack now looks like. On Thursday, May 28, Asana completed its acquisition of StackAI, a no-code AI workflow platform, for approximately $75 million. The following morning, Palo Alto Networks closed its purchase of Portkey, an AI gateway company, for an estimated $120 million to $140 million — roughly double what Portkey was valued at just three months earlier, according to a report by Economic Times cited by Cybersecurity Magazine. Neither company disclosed official financial terms. Considered separately, each deal could be read as a routine tuck-in acquisition by a company looking to accelerate its roadmap. Considered together, they map two adjacent layers of an enterprise agent architecture that has begun to take shape over the past year: an execution layer, where agents read from and act inside the systems where business actually runs, and a control layer, where enterprises see, route, and govern what those agents do. That distinction matters for enterprise technology buyers. Most organizations deploying AI agents in 2026 have discovered that the hard problem...