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Introducing Asana's Breakthrough in AI Capabilities

Written by Ohad Peter | Aug 25, 2024 9:25:34 AM

IV-Lead have announced its partnership with Asana a few months ago, and have been promoting that partnership ever since. Many companies have shown interest in Asana, and some chose to implement it in their own organizations.

We strongly believe that Asana's products and services can help teams across all departments manage their time and schedules more effectively. But Asana isn’t stopping there - They have recently launched a new feature called Asana AI. People, this is a game changer. 

Asana AI is a personal intelligent assistant designed to streamline your work management experience, help you work smarter, automate tasks and gain valuable insights into your projects. We will discuss the rest of its features and how to utilize them in more detail.

But that’s not all: Last June, Asana’s Head of Product Alex Hood unveiled a whole new suite of AI teammates that operate within Asana AI, and help tackle complex workflows and elevate teamwork. How's that for a technological leap?

Let's take a look at what these two AI advancements can do, their features, and how they can change the way your team works. Let's begin!

Asana AI

Asana AI is an intelligent tool that helps you manage your work more effectively, automate tasks, and gain valuable insight into your projects. Utilizing artificial intelligence, Asana AI automates routine tasks, provides insightful summaries, and assists with task creation and editing.

You can visit Asana’s pricing page for more pricing information, or see their dedicated article for a detailed overview of Asana AI usage. 

Asana AI features

1. Smart status

Your projects and tasks will always be up to date, making it easier to stay on top of things without digging through all the details.

Learn more about smart status.

2. Smart answers

With AI-powered answers to your project management questions, you can make informed decisions faster.

Learn more about smart answers.

3. Smart fields

Use AI to automatically fill in important fields, ensuring that your task details are always complete and up-to-date.

Learn more about smart fields.

4. Smart summaries

Understanding the key points of your projects, tasks, and portfolios is easier with concise summaries.

Learn more about smart summaries.

5. Smart editor

Write clear, effective task descriptions with AI-powered suggestions to enhance your task creation and editing process.

Learn more about smart editor.

6. Smart rules

By using custom rules powered by AI, you can automate your workflows and ensure that routine processes are handled efficiently.

Learn more about smart rules.

7. Smart goals

Standardize and improve the effectiveness of goal-setting with smart goals. Using smart goals, you can analyze existing goals and suggest improvements, including adding success criteria, impact summaries, parent goals, supporting subgoals, and assigning accountable teams.

Learn more about smart goals.

8. Smart projects

Create customized projects quickly with AI. Based on the name and purpose of the project, smart projects suggest descriptions, sections, and custom fields.

Learn more about smart projects.

Enable Asana AI

To start using Asana AI, enable the AI features in your admin console. Once activated, you can customize AI preferences.

Learn how to enable Asana AI features.

Benefits of Using Asana AI

  • Drive clarity and accountability: Take the guesswork out of strategic planning.
  • Maximize impact: Accelerate how work gets done.
  • Scale with confidence: Scale your organization’s work effortlessly.

Your team will always be aligned and focused on the most important tasks by integrating Asana AI into your daily workflow.

Now that we’ve covered Asana AI, let's look at the awesome new Teammates feature.

Introducing Asana AI Teammates

Asana just wants to push forward to stay at the forefront of AI trends worldwide, transforming how teams plan, manage, and execute work more efficiently. 

3 Ways AI Teammates Will Change How You Work

Asana integrates AI directly into your workflow to not only provide you with recommendations, but also take action on actual work and continuously adapt based on your organization's needs. Here’s what we're exploring for Asana AI teammates, which is currently in beta:

1. Advise: By surfacing insights across your teams, projects, and work, Teammates advise you where to focus. This tool can be used to identify risks, bottlenecks, and areas for improvement, such as flagging unclear ownership on projects and suggesting the right individuals to lead them.

2. Action: Next, they take action on work. It is easy to orchestrate and execute workflows with Asana AI without any coding knowledge. Imagine having AI review all requests, ask the right qualifying questions, ensure all relevant information is provided before launching a new initiative, and even research and draft content for you. Teams can benefit from AI as a true collaborator.

3. Adapt: Lastly, this feature continuously adapts to your organization's needs. Team members using AI can identify broken or inefficient processes and suggest improvements to realign work and keep it on track.

Additionally, you can get rich answers through the new AI chat interface, coming later this month, to better understand work details, status, and next steps.

Asana AI teammates are built on Asana's Work Graph® data model, which provides the ideal structure, visibility, and context for organizations to scale AI confidently. By linking work and workflows to higher level company objectives, AI teammates can take action with the appropriate context and rules of engagement, unlike other AI solutions that aimlessly scan vast amounts of data and act based on unreliable information. AI in Asana also provides full transparency into how recommendations are made, ensuring that humans remain in control at all times.  

Teammates in Real (Work) Life

Many customers are already exploring how AI teammates can help them with product launches, strategic planning, new hire onboarding, creative production, and many other tasks. Here are a few recent examples of use cases and feedback from customers:

Use Case: Creative Production

An outdoor advertising company is testing how AI teammates can streamline the creative request process to focus more on creative flow and design. Specifically, Asana AI teammates are:

  • Managing incoming requests and gathering missing information proactively
  • Depending on the context, assigning work to specific people
  • Conducting initial research for clients
  • Improving reporting quality with consistent data

Use Case: Creative Production

A leading outdoor advertising company is testing how AI teammates can improve and fast-track the creative request process so they can spend more time focusing on creative flow and design. Specifically, Asana AI teammates are:

  • Triaging incoming requests and proactively gathering missing information
  • Assigning work to specific people based on context
  • Assisting with initial client research
  • Increasing data consistency to improve reporting quality

Organizations that integrate AI and people in the natural flow of their work (rather than forcing humans to adopt new AI tools that force new work habits) will gain an advantage in efficiency, transparency, and productivity. Asana’s new AI tools are guaranteed to help make it possible.

Explore how Asana AI teammates can transform the way your enterprise works, and join the beta waitlist