Asana has agreed to acquire StackAI, a no-code platform for building AI agents that act across enterprise software, in a deal that pushes the work-management vendor from organizing work toward executing it. The companies announced the acquisition on May 28, 2026, and Asana said it has since completed the transaction. Multiple outlets reported the price at roughly $75 million, though Asana did not officially disclose terms; that figure should be treated as reported rather than confirmed.
The logic of the deal is unusually blunt for an enterprise software acquisition. Asana has spent the past year pitching itself as "the operating system for human-agent teams," but its agents could plan, track and route work without ever reaching into the systems where that work actually gets done. StackAI closes that gap. Its no-code platform lets companies design, test, deploy and govern custom AI agents that connect workflows, data and actions across ERP, CRM, ITSM and document systems, with integrations spanning Salesforce, AWS, DocuSign and Oracle.
"StackAI allows them to 'agentify' more complex business processes end-to-end across the systems and tools their businesses run on," Asana CEO Dan Rogers said, describing how the acquisition lets customers move beyond highly repetitive processes such as request intake and task routing into deeper, cross-functional automation.
The deal
StackAI is a young company. According to PitchBook data cited in coverage of the deal, it had raised just under $20 million, most of it in a recent $16 million Series A that drew in Gradient, Epakon Capital, Lobby VC, LifeX Ventures and Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch. Co-founders Tony Rosinol and Bernard Aceituno are joining Asana as part of the transaction, and StackAI will continue to operate as its own product and brand.
The product targets regulated, document-heavy industries. StackAI says customers in financial services, healthcare and professional services already use it to automate processes including customer support, IT service requests and compliance reviews — exactly the kind of repeatable, audit-sensitive work that enterprises have been slowest to hand to AI. By acquiring rather than building, Asana gets a working execution engine and a customer base in those verticals in one move.
Asana is framing the integration around its existing graph. The company said its AI Teammates will be able to pull context from Asana's Work Graph into StackAI workflows, then route the resulting actions and data back into Asana. In Asana's telling, StackAI supplies the cross-system execution while Asana supplies the project context, ownership and history of work — the memory and governance layer that decides who is accountable when an agent acts.
For Asana, the timing is not coincidental. The company spent much of the past two years under pressure as customers questioned whether seat-based work-management tools would survive an era when AI compresses headcount. Fortune characterized the company as "battered by the AI age," and the StackAI deal reads as Asana's clearest attempt yet to reposition itself as infrastructure for agentic work rather than a casualty of it.
Why it matters
The StackAI purchase is not an isolated bet — it is one data point in a fast-moving land grab. In a span of weeks, enterprise vendors across categories moved to buy what ERP Today calls "the AI execution layer": the assets that let agents act inside real systems instead of merely recommending a next step. Coupa acquired document-intelligence company Rossum to push automation deeper into source-to-pay. Salesforce signed a definitive agreement to buy Contentful to give Agentforce a native content layer. Procurement platform Vertice acquired Vendr to deepen its negotiation-agent dataset.
Each deal sits in a different software category — work management, spend, CRM, procurement — yet each fills the same gap. As ERP Today put it, vendors are "no longer only adding AI assistants to existing platforms. They are acquiring the assets required to make agents useful in specific business domains." The competitive bar has moved from generic automation to domain-specific execution tied to measurable outcomes.
That shift reframes what work-management software is for. The category was built to coordinate humans. The new pitch is that the same platform should also dispatch, supervise and audit a workforce of agents — and own the governance when those agents touch ERP records, financial systems or customer data. Whoever controls that execution-and-accountability layer controls something far stickier than a task list.
The risk, as ERP Today notes, is fragmentation: if every platform builds its own agent stack, enterprises could end up with overlapping control layers across ERP, CRM, procurement and work management, each claiming to govern the same actions. The winners will be vendors that integrate cleanly into existing enterprise architectures rather than adding one more silo.
What to watch
Three things will signal whether Asana's bet pays off. First, integration depth: whether StackAI's cross-system execution genuinely fuses with Asana's Work Graph or merely sits beside it as a separate product. Second, governance — whether enterprises trust Asana to own the audit trail when agents act inside regulated financial and healthcare workflows. Third, the competitive response: Asana now sits between far larger players in Salesforce's Agentforce, ServiceNow's autonomous suite and Microsoft's Agent 365, all racing for the same execution layer. The question for every buyer is no longer whether agents can summarize work, but which platform they will trust to let agents do it.
“StackAI allows them to 'agentify' more complex business processes end-to-end across the systems and tools their businesses run on.”— Dan Rogers, CEO, Asana