Asana, the work management software company, has acquired StackAI, a San Francisco startup whose no-code platform lets companies build, test, deploy and govern their own AI agents. Asana announced the completed deal on 28 May 2026, at the same time as its quarterly earnings and investor call.
Asana did not disclose financial terms. TechCrunch reported that it paid $75 million.
StackAI's co-founders, Antoni "Tony" Rosinol and Bernard Aceituno, joined Asana. StackAI continues as a separate product and brand, and the company told customers that their workflows, integrations and support teams would stay the same.
What StackAI built
StackAI offers a drag-and-drop builder for AI agents that work inside a company's existing systems. Asana said the agents link workflows, data and actions across ERP, CRM and IT service management tools and can sync both ways with systems such as Salesforce, AWS, DocuSign and Oracle. Companies use them for customer support, IT requests, compliance work and other back-office processes.
The startup concentrated on heavily regulated industries such as financial services and healthcare. When it raised its Series A in May 2025, StackAI said hundreds of organizations used the platform, naming Nubank, LifeMD, MIT Sloan and SmartAsset as well as an unnamed top-five defense agency. It reported more than 90,000 sign-ups and more than 100,000 agents created, and said customers could run it on their own servers or in private clouds.
TechCrunch noted that StackAI faced strong competition from automation tools such as Zapier and from AI labs including OpenAI and Anthropic.
“StackAI was built on a simple conviction: AI creates ROI for enterprises when agents can specialize and reach into the systems where business actually runs. General-purpose agents talk; specialized agents act.”
Why Asana is buying
Asana has been repositioning itself as what it calls the operating system for human-agent teams. It already sells AI Studio, a tool for building automations, and AI Teammates, a set of pre-built agents. Asana said StackAI adds workflows that run across many outside systems, with AI Teammates feeding context from Asana's Work Graph into StackAI workflows and getting the results back.
Chief executive Dan Rogers said customers were already using AI Teammates and AI Studio for repetitive work such as request intake and task routing, and that StackAI would let them automate more complex processes from start to finish. He said that in a trial with the StackAI team, Asana had reworked its own search engine optimization spending process in minutes, with StackAI agents pulling live data from five marketing systems.
The deal comes as Asana tries to win back investors. TechCrunch reported that the company has lost more than half of its market value since ChatGPT launched, a slide that worsened after co-founder Dustin Moskovitz stepped down as chief executive, although its revenue has continued to grow.
The founders and the funding
StackAI was founded in 2022 by Rosinol and Aceituno, who both hold PhDs from MIT, and took part in Y Combinator's Winter 2023 batch. The company says it launched its platform in April 2023. At the time of its Series A, it had a team of 16.
It raised a $3 million seed round and then a $16 million Series A, announced in May 2025. New investors in the Series A included Lobby VC, LifeX Ventures, Vercel chief executive Guillermo Rauch and Weaviate chief executive Bob van Luijt, while Gradient, Y Combinator and Epakon Capital invested again. StackAI also listed Soma Capital and True Capital Ventures among its backers. PitchBook data cited by TechCrunch put its total funding at just under $20 million.
In the deal announcement, Rosinol said general-purpose agents talk while specialized agents act, and that joining Asana would give StackAI an established enterprise sales operation and thousands of customers.
What happens to customers
In a note to customers, StackAI said nothing would change about the platform or their existing workflows. Customers would not have to connect their workflows to Asana or move anything across, integrations would keep working, and StackAI would keep supporting agents that have nothing to do with Asana. Its forward-deployed engineers and AI strategists would continue to work with the same accounts.
StackAI said Asana's resources would let it add more features and tools over time.
