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The Chat with Dash feature is currently under development and will be available soon.

Available on Asana Starter, Advanced, Enterprise, and Enterprise+ tiers

Chat with Dash

Chat with Dash is Asana’s chat experience for Asana Dash, your AI Chief of Staff  in Asana. It replaces Smart chat with a more action-oriented experience that helps you ask questions about your work, draft content, and move work forward without leaving Asana.

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What is Chat with Dash?

Asana Dash is designed to help with your day-to-day work in Asana by using the context you already have access to, such as tasks, projects, goals, and notes.

Unlike the older Smart chat experience, Chat with Dash is designed not only to answer questions, but also to help turn conversations into action. Your Asana Dash assistant learns your preferences over time and provides tailored recommendations based on your work patterns and priorities.

Whether you're an individual contributor looking for guidance or a team member managing multiple priorities, Asana Dash provides immediate, personalized productivity support that adapts to your needs.

How can I work with Asana Dash?

Asana Dash is your AI assistant in Asana. Here's what you can do:

  • Ask questions — Simply ask Asana Dash for help, and it will guide you through tasks, explain context, and suggest next steps. "What's overdue?" or "What changed this week in [project]?"
  • Draft content — Sstatus updates, meeting notes, follow-ups. After meetings, ask Asana Dash to process transcripts, suggest task updates, and share summaries with stakeholders, eliminating manual post-meeting work.
  • Take action — create tasks, update work, turn notes into plans
  • Work in context — when you're looking at a task or project, just ask about what's in front of you

The more specific you are, the better. Try asking about a real project or task you're looking at right now.

What would you like help with?

  • Summarize what I should focus on today
  • Draft a status update for a project
  • Find what's overdue or at risk
  • Turn meeting notes into tasks

Why use Chat with Dash?

Chat with Dash is a private, per-user AI assistant built into Asana's chat platform. Unlike shared AI Teammates that automate team workflows, Asana Dash is your personal productivity companion. It has access to the work you have access to, and no other users can interact with your personal Asana Dash.

You can use Chat with Dash to:

  • Get answers about tasks, projects, and goals in Asana
  • Summarize work, comments, and recent activity
  • Draft status updates, plans, meeting notes, and follow-ups
  • Create or update work in Asana
  • Get help prioritizing or organizing work
  • Work from the context of what you are already viewing in Asana
  • Delegate work to AI Teammates when that workflow is available

What can Dash help with?

Ask questions about your work

Dash can help answer questions about work in Asana, from high-level summaries to more specific questions about individual tasks or projects.

Examples:

  • What changed in this project this week?
  • What are the open risks for this initiative?
  • What tasks are overdue and need my attention?
  • Summarize the latest activity on this task.

Draft content from your Asana context

Dash can draft first-pass content based on the work you already have in Asana.

Examples:

  • Draft a weekly status update for this project
  • Summarize this thread into key decisions and next steps
  • Turn these notes into follow-up tasks
  • Write a concise update I can share with leadership

Create and update work

Chat with Dash can help turn intent into action in Asana.

Examples:

  • Create a task for next Friday to review the launch checklist
  • Turn these action items into subtasks
  • Draft a project brief based on this request
  • Update this task description with a clearer plan

Use the context of what you are viewing

When you are looking at a task, project, or other work in Asana, Asana Dash may be able to use that context to give more relevant responses.

This can make it easier to ask follow-up questions like:

  • Summarize this project
  • What should happen next here?
  • Draft an update about this work

Delegate to AI Teammates

When a request requires input from multiple humans or Teammates, requires autonomous processes, or may benefit from specialized skills, Dash may be able to hand work off to AI Teammates that are better suited for these more specialized or collaborative workflows. 

How to access Chat with Dash

To start using Chat with Dash, open the chat entry point in Asana and start your request in plain language.

You may also encounter Asana Dash in different chat surfaces, depending on your setup and rollout, such as:

  • A primary chat experience
  • Docked chat while viewing work
  • Fullscreen chat for a more focused experience

Getting better results from Chat with Dash

To get the most useful responses from Dash:

Be specific

Include details like:

  • The project, task, or goal you mean
  • The timeframe you care about
  • The people involved
  • The kind of output you want

For example, instead of asking:

  • What’s happening in marketing?

Try asking:

  • What is the status of tasks in the content creation section of the Q3 marketing campaign project?

Ask for an outcome, not just an answer

Dash is especially helpful when you ask for a concrete result.

For example:

  • Draft a weekly status update for this project
  • Create follow-up tasks from these notes
  • Help me prioritize my tasks for this week
  • Summarize what changed since yesterday

Use context when relevant

If you are already viewing the work you want help with, ask Dash about that specific work instead of starting with a broad question.

Example prompts

Here are a few ways to use Chat with Dash:

  • Summarize this project and call out the biggest risks
  • Draft a status update based on what changed this week
  • Help me prioritize the tasks due in the next 7 days
  • Create follow-up tasks from these meeting notes
  • What should I focus on first today?
  • Summarize the recent comments on this task
  • Turn this rough idea into a plan

Chat with Dash vs. AI Teammates

Chat with Dash and AI Teammates are related, but they are not the same thing.

Use Chat with Dash when you want fast, personal help inside chat, such as:

  • Asking questions about your work
  • Drafting a summary or update
  • Creating or updating work directly from a conversation
  • Getting help based on your own context in Asana

Use AI Teammates when you want a more collaborative or specialized workflow, such as:

  • Assigning work to a shared AI agent
  • Handling recurring workflows
  • Supporting team-specific processes
  • Producing more involved deliverables over time

A simple way to think about it:

  • Chat with Dash is best for direct, in-the-moment help. While AI Teammates are shared agents configured by teams for autonomous workflows, Dash is your private assistant focused on individual productivity.
  • AI Teammates are best for collaborative, specialized, or autonomous work

Files, connected tools, and additional context

Dash may be able to work with files and connected tools when those capabilities are available in your environment and supported by your organization’s setup.

Availability and admin controls

If Chat with Dash requires separate admin controls, organization settings, or licensing from Smart chat, this section should be updated before publication.

Frequently asked questions

Is my conversation with Asana Dash private?

Yes, your conversations with Dash are private to you. However, when Dash provides responses in shared tasks, be aware that it reads from your full access context, so responses may reflect information from private projects you have access to.

What's the difference between Asana Dash and AI Teammates?

Dash is your personal productivity assistant focused on helping you as an individual contributor. AI Teammates are shared agents that teams configure to automate workflows. Dash feels like a personal guide, while AI Teammates function as shared automation tools.

Can Dash access all my Asana data?

Dash can access any Asana data that you have permission to view. This allows it to provide comprehensive assistance across all your projects and tasks.

 

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