Asana has purchased StackAI, a no-code agent-building platform, for $75 million as part of its push to become an AI-first workplace platform. The acquisition, announced Thursday alongside Asana's earnings call, will bring StackAI's founders Tony Rosinol and Bernard Aceituno into the company. Asana described the deal as a cornerstone of its strategy to position itself as "the operating system for human-agent teams." StackAI, which participated in Y Combinator's Winter 2023 cohort, builds AI agents designed to operate within existing business systems, integrating with platforms like Salesforce, Slack, and G Suite. The company has been competing against both established automation tools like Zapier and AI labs including OpenAI and Anthropic. According to PitchBook data, StackAI had raised just under $20 million, with the majority coming from a recent $16 million Series A round backed by Gradient, Epakon Capital, Lobby VC, LifeX Ventures, and Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch. While Asana is best known for its work management system, the company has increasingly moved into AI products, including its AI Studio agent builder and AI Teammates line of pre-built automations. Asana is betting that its deep integration into corporate workflows gives it an advantage over standalone AI tools, allowing it to pull context and training data that would otherwise be inaccessible to outside developers. Asana has faced significant challenges since ChatGPT's launch, with its market cap dropping by more than half—a decline that intensified after founder Dustin Moskovitz stepped down as CEO last March. However, the company's revenue has continued to climb steadily, and new leadership under CEO Dan Rogers expressed confidence that its human-agent product lineup will drive a turnaround. "This acquisition accelerates our roadmap and takes us into the next phase of human-agent work," Rogers said in a statement. "StackAI now lets them go further, agentifying the most complex business processes."