Asana built AI agents that won't leak secrets | VentureBeat

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Enterprise teams building AI agents keep hitting the same wall: a chatbot that can answer a prompt but can't remember what the last five people asked it, and can't tell you whether last month's version actually worked.

In a fireside chat with VentureBeat's Sam Witteveen at VB Transform 2026, Asana's chief product officer, Arnab Bose, unpacked how his team tackled this problem to build a new operating system: Agentic Work Management (AWM). The product treats AI agents as coachable teammates that operate alongside humans rather than as one-to-one assistants.

For product builders and developers trying to move beyond basic integrations, Bose provided a look under the hood. He detailed how Asana engineered AWM, offering a blueprint for solving real-world bottlenecks and building agentic systems at scale.

The Work Graph: 18 years of company data, repurposed

To build an operating system for human-agent teams, Asana needed a ready-made enterprise context...

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