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As Asana positions itself as the “operating system for human-agent teams,” it has faced a real vulnerability: its agents couldn’t execute work end-to-end across the enterprise systems where business actually runs. That changes today with the company announcing the acquisition of StackAI, a no-code platform that lets enterprises build and deploy AI agents across critical business systems. According to Asana’s filing with the SEC, the purchase price was approximately $75 million. In addition, StackAI will continue to operate as its own product and brand.
“This acquisition accelerates our roadmap substantially and unlocks the next phase of human-agent work,” Dan Rogers, Asana’s chief executive, said in a statement. “StackAI gives our customers what they’ve [been] asking for: the ability to orchestrate their most complex business processes end-to-end, across every enterprise system they run on.”
The addition of StackAI completes a trifecta Asana has been building toward: AI Teammates for day-to-day human-agent work, AI Studio for simpler automations, and now StackAI for orchestrating complex end-to-end workflows. Here’s how this flywheel could work: StackAI is the execution layer that reaches into the enterprise systems where the data actually lives, pulling it from CRMs, ERPs, document repositories, and databases, synthesizing it, and kicking off the workflow. That logic is defined within Asana’s AI Studio, establishing the rules, triggers, and automations that govern how work moves between systems and people. AI Teammates are where human-trained agents take action—already shaped by their human counterparts, they execute tasks and make decisions at the right checkpoints.
It’s a recognition that work isn’t confined to a single app but spans many tools, including customer support, ITSM, compliance, and business operations. Asana noted that StackAI can natively integrate with Salesforce, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Docusign, databases, document systems, and industry applications using bi-directional sync; it can read and execute across all of them in real time.
“This is the first operating system where an entire business can run all of its human-agent workflows—no matter which systems, agents, data, or teams they touch,” Rogers said, adding that the enduring enterprise value will go to platforms that can coordinate everything inside the flow of real operational work. “We are closing the gap from pockets of individual productivity to enterprise-wide workflow productivity—humans and agents working together at the right checkpoints, on the workflows that actually matter.”
Founded in 2022 by MIT PhD students Toni Rosinol and Bernard Aceituno, StackAI set out to help organizations create specialized agents to tackle some of the most difficult and important processes. Rather than chase easier wins, the startup deliberately targeted heavily regulated industries where the bar for security, governance, and reliability is highest. That track record—more than 130 enterprise customers including BAE Systems, LifeMD, and Raiffeisen Bank—now gives Asana credibility with a class of enterprise buyers that are the hardest to win and most lucrative to keep.
Leading up to the acquisition, the startup raised over $19 million in funding from investors, including Y Combinator, Lambda, Gradient, Soma Capital, True Capital Management, Epakon Capital, Beat Ventures, and Weaviate CEO Bob van Luijt. Its most recent financing round—its Series A—was announced in May 2025.
Today’s announcement comes on the same day as Asana’s Q1 FY2027 earnings report.
Updated on May 28, 2026: This post has been modified to include how much Asana paid for StackAI.
