Asana on Thursday unveiled an AI assistant called Dash and a new generation of what the company calls AI “teammates” in an effort to rebrand the work management platform as an “operating system for human-agent teams.”The announcements, made at the company’s Work Innovation Summit in London, focus on closing the gap between using AI in the workplace and actually seeing productivity gains. As Arnab Bose, Asana’s chief product officer, puts it in an interview with The New Stack, AI has made it “easier to get email summaries,” but it’s still “difficult to actually plug this into a real-world business process.”Asana has been moving in this direction since Dan Rogers, the former LaunchDarkly CEO and ServiceNow marketing chief, took over from co-founder Dustin Moskovitz in July 2025. As Fortune observed last month, the company has lost more than half its market value since ChatGPT’s debut, and it is betting that coordinating humans and agents, rather than building another chatbot, is the way back.An AI “chief of staff”The highlight of this release cycle is Dash, which Asana describes as a personal AI chief of staff that is tied to the individual user rather than shared across a team. Dash captures follow-ups from meetings, Slack threads, and email, and turns them into trackable work in Asana’s Work Graph. Bose describes his own usage of Dash as “basically my second brain.”Each morning, for example, Dash can give the user a brief of what needs their attention, whether that’s blocked items or pending decisions. When a task stalls, Dash flags the next steps and pulls in the right AI Teammate to keep it moving, always keeping the human in the loop.AI TeammatesThose AI Teammates aren’t new, but the company has now made them more capable and easier to adopt, with an expanded library of reusable skills, in-product recommendations, and integrations with Gmail, Outlook, Slack, HubSpot, Figma, and Canva.The company is also adding more pre-built Teammates for specific industries, such as retail and manufacturing. An AI Teammate at work. Credit: Asana“When an agent comes into Asana, it is an actor in the system. It has a manager or an administrator. It has editors,” Bose tells The New Stack. “So human beings manage the agent, but the agent is also a node in the graph.” Another feature that Asana stresses is that while a standard chatbot “works for you,” as Bose says, the company’s teammates are “multiplayer by design.”What StackAI addsStackAI, the no-code agent builder that Asana acquired in May for $75 million, also allows those agents to work with third-party tools, including popular customer relationship management services, enterprise resource planning platforms, support tools, and databases. Paired with AI Studio and AI Teammates, Asana says this now lets customers create multistep workflows that run across the enterprise and not just inside Asana.The operating system for workWith these updates, the company is also launching a few more pre-packaged solutions for specific workflows. Asana Service Management, for example, handles IT, HR, and facilities tickets and can turn a ticket into a full project. Command by Asana is a planning and product development tool where the AI drafts specs from past tickets, pull requests, and meeting notes, while creative agencies can use Asana Client Management to create branded portals for their clients to keep them informed about the state of any deliverables, as well as tools for the agency to keep projects moving.Command. Credit: AsanaIt’s the harness, not the modelTo do all of this, Asana is not training its own models. Bose tells The New Stack that Asana uses “a variety of models under the covers, but the important intellectual property here is really all about the harness.” That harness is what gives the model access to Asana’s work graph and allows it to break requests into a research-plan-execute loop — and when to bring a human into the loopAsana says FedEx, using AI Studio and Teammates across marketing and sales, saw a 9x improvement in speed to market and reclaimed more than 1,200 hours a year in marketing alone. COS, the H&M-owned fashion brand, cut campaign setup time by 90 percent. Of the 200 companies in Asana’s early-access program, Bose says 93 percent enabled teammates in “edit mode,” letting them create and change items in the graph without a human doing it first.The moat is always the graphThere is some consolidation in how Asana and its competitors approach the agentic era. Only a few weeks ago, for example, at its Team ’26 conference, Atlassian opened its own Teamwork Graph and pushed its Rovo agents from helpers into tools that plan and execute multistep work, with a no-code studio and governance controls to match. Monday.com and ClickUp both ship autonomous agents now, too.“There’s a pretty big delta between some of the promised land messaging that I see driving up and down the 101 here in San Francisco versus what I see from our customers,” Bose says, but chances are Asana’s rivals would say something similar as well. What the entire industry now has to prove is that these AI tools do actually improve productivity.The post Asana says its new AI “chief of staff” turns your Slack chaos into trackable work appeared first on The New Stack.