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Smart chat
Smart chat is available on Asana Starter, Advanced, Enterprise, and Enterprise+ tiers.
Smart chat helps you quickly find information, gain insights, and even take action to move work forward. With smart chat, you can ask detailed questions about tasks, projects, and goals. You can get accurate answers pulled from across your Asana organization, and quickly create and update tasks. Smart chat can also provide guidance on Asana's features by referencing articles from the Asana Help Center.
Related articles:
- Get started with Asana AI
- Smart status
- Smart rule creator
- Smart summaries
- Smart fields
- Smart editor
- Smart goals
- Smart projects
- Asana AI FAQ
Accessing smart chat
To get started, open the smart chat interface by clicking the stardust icon in the top-right of your Asana window, right next to your profile photo. Next, select one of the suggested questions or simply type your question in plain language, there's no need for complex prompts or previous experience with LLMs.
Getting the most from smart chat
To get the most relevant and actionable responses from smart chat, keep the following in mind:
Be specific in your queries
- @mention specific tasks, projects, or people by name
- Provide context like time frames and people involved
- Ask targeted questions instead of broad ones
- Include relevant details like project names, sections, or custom field values
For instance, you could say: "Please create a task for @Max Mustermann to review the latest designs, due next Friday", or "Change the assignee of the @Edit budget overview task to @Joe Bloggs". This allows you to capture action items and update progress without navigating away from your chat.
Examples of effective vs. ineffective questions
Too broad:
- Are there any overdue tasks? ❌
- Which overdue tasks need my attention? ❌
- What's happening in the marketing project? ❌
- How is our team doing? ❌
Specific and effective:
- Do I have any recently overdue tasks? ✅
- Which tasks due in the previous week need my attention? ✅
- What's the status of tasks in the content creation section of the marketing campaign project? ✅
- How many tasks has each team member completed in the website redesign project this month? ✅
Use smart chat for complex queries
Smart chat is particularly useful for questions that would otherwise require multiple clicks or filters to answer, such as:
- Finding tasks across multiple projects that match specific criteria
- Identifying bottlenecks or dependencies in your workflow
- Getting summaries of project progress or team performance
- Creating or updating multiple tasks at once based on certain conditions
The more precise your input, the more smart chat can tailor its analysis to your needs. With practice, you'll quickly learn how to leverage your new AI assistant to work smarter and faster.
Getting work insights
Why use smart chat?
Get instant answers about work
You can ask about any topic related to work in your organization. See the below examples for some ideas.
Ask about projects and tasks
Smart chat can answer questions about projects and tasks in Asana, from high-level overviews to more complex or nuanced questions.
Note
You can ask about “this project” or “this task” on projects and tasks you’re currently viewing, otherwise remember to @mention the specific object you’re interested in.
Examples:
- Catch me up on the latest activity in this project
- Summarize the work I’ve accomplished in the @Q3 product roadmap project?
- Summarize the recent comments made on the @Launch Review
- What is the current status of the @Q3 product roadmap?
- What are the key milestones for our website redesign project?
- Show me all tasks that are at risk in the @2025 Marketing Campaign project
- What progress has been made on the customer research initiative this month?
- Which tasks in this project are overdue by more than 3 days?
Manage your My tasks
Smart chat is great at helping you manage and prioritize work assigned to you. Catch up on unread conversations, find and update overdue tasks assigned to you, get an overview of recently assigned tasks, and get a rundown of upcoming tasks.
Examples:
- What are my top 3 most recently overdue tasks?
- Give me a quick overview of all tasks assigned to me due today.
- What should be my top three priorities for this week?
- Draft a monthly strategic focus task to share with my manager
- What have I accomplished in the last three weeks?
Learn how to use Asana
You can ask questions about using Asana, and smart chat will quickly provide answers along with links to additional resources in the Asana Help Center for further learning. Try asking questions like:
Feature explanations
- How do I improve this project?
- How do I set up custom fields?
- What's the difference between Inbox and My tasks?
- How do I create a rule?
- What are the benefits of using portfolios?
Workflow guidance
- What's the best way to track project dependencies?
- How can I create a recurring task?
- What's the most efficient way to manage cross-functional projects?
- How do I set up approval workflows?
Best practices
- What are best practices for organizing tasks in My Tasks?
- How should I structure sections in my project?
- What's the recommended way to use milestones?
- How can I effectively use timeline view for project planning?
View past topics
To view past topics, open up smart chat and click on the clock icon in the upper left corner. All your previously asked questions will be displayed sorted by the time they were last modified.
Enabling smart chat
Smart chat is available on Asana Starter, Advanced, Enterprise, and Enterprise+ plans. Admins can enable it in the admin console by toggling on both "Asana AI - Anthropic" and "Asana AI - OpenAI". Once activated, it can be accessed by all users in the organization via the stardust icon. Smart chat is not available to users with view only licenses. If your organization enables Asana AI, smart chat appears only for members with eligible licenses.
Visit our article on Asana AI features and admin controls for more information.