Asana launches Dash, an AI chief of staff

At its Work Innovation Summit in London, Asana introduced Dash, an AI “chief of staff” that gathers emails, messages and progress reports, organizes them into structured work and routes tasks to people or AI Teammates.

Dash is part of Asana’s new Agentic Work Management platform, described by the company as an operating system that consolidates workflows across its core products. At the summit, Asana announced integrations with Gmail, Outlook, Slack, HubSpot, Figma and Canva, and unveiled a Skills library to capture repeatable work. Updates to Asana’s AI Teammates are designed to work alongside Dash, with Dash able to assign actions to human workers or to AI agents.

Asana reported research showing 75% of knowledge workers use AI daily, while only 5% of companies report meaningful productivity gains. The company identified four barriers to broader returns: difficulty choosing the right agents for tasks; agents operating in isolation; agents lacking onboarding and contextual data; and governance and safety concerns such as unchecked data access and weak cost oversight.

According to Asana, Dash captures meeting follow-ups, Slack threads and email, turns them into structured items in the Work Graph, and connects users to the appropriate AI Teammates for specific tasks and projects. The platform builds on Asana’s Enterprise Work Graph, launched in 2021, which the company says provides shared memory, multiplayer coordination and governance.

Dan Rogers, Asana’s chief executive, described the Enterprise Work Graph features as “precisely what the agentic era requires.” He added, “Asana’s OS is how AI moves from helping individuals work faster to supercharging entire organizations.”

Asana said the updates aim to give IT and business leaders more control when deploying agents by keeping data and decisions within a governed environment tied to projects and teams. The Skills library and integrations are intended to standardize repeatable tasks and reduce fragmentation when teams adopt different agents across multiple tools.

Other technology companies have proposed platforms intended to combine business data and automated agents in a single environment. Asana described its Agentic Work Management platform as a way to consolidate that capability inside the company’s existing work graph and product suite.