Asana vs Smartsheet

Asana — Application · Public · $2.1B mkt cap · 4 of 4 figures sourced  |  Smartsheet — Application · Private · $8.4B valuation · 4 of 4 figures sourced

Relationship

10-K names Asana directly. Asana Dash shares query-my-own-data with Smartsheet AI.

3 of 4 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleNamed in filingAsk questions of my own data

3 of 4 capabilities — Shares knowledge retrieval, summarization and workflow automation.

Ludbee capability tags · from the product records

Shared product type — Both ship application.

Ludbee product records

Larger scale — Smartsheet: $8.4B valuation, against Asana's $2.1B market cap.

Ludbee scale figures · valuation, market cap or revenue estimate

Named in filing — “Certain of our features compete with current or potential products and services offered by Airtable, Asana, Atlassian, ClickUp, Monday.com, Wrike, and others.”

sec.gov · checked 2026-09-19

Ask questions of my own data — Rivals on this job — Point a tool at a company's own data and get answers, charts or reports back in plain language.

Ludbee needs vocabulary · the scope on the sourced edge

Aligned comparison

FieldAsanaSmartsheet
Size$2.1B mkt cap$8.4B valuation different basis
Employees1,7673,330 Smartsheet has 88% more
Founded20082005 3 yrs earlier
StatusPublicPrivate
CategoryApplicationApplication match
Stack layerAI agent, Agent platform, ApplicationApplication
HeadquartersSan Francisco, USABellevue, USA

Capability overlap

Shared · 3

Knowledge retrievalSummarizationWorkflow automation

Not verified for Smartsheet · 1

Agent orchestration

Recorded for Asana. Smartsheet’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Not verified for Asana · 2

Data analysisTranslation

Recorded for Smartsheet. Asana’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Products, side by side

Hand-checked pairing

Asana

Application

DashApplication

Asana's own description: "your AI chief of staff." A personal AI assistant that reads across a user's projects, meetings, Slack and email, delivers a daily brief of blockers and pending decisions, recommends the next action and routes work to the right AI Teammate, and answers on-demand questions through a conversational interface -- while the user stays in control of approvals and final decisions.

Smartsheet

Application

Smartsheet AIApplication

Smartsheet's built-in AI feature set: Smart Assist (a conversational AI companion embedded in Smartsheet that answers questions about a workspace and surfaces recommended next actions), Smart Columns (AI-powered column types that summarize, translate or analyze sentiment across every row automatically as data changes) and an AI Dashboard Builder (generates a populated dashboard from a plain-language description and chosen data sources) -- plus AI-assisted formula generation, ad hoc chart/data analysis and voice-driven intelligent form fill, all operating on a customer's own Smartsheet data.

No counterpart

Asana sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for Smartsheet yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.

AI agent

AI TeammatesAI agent

More than 30 pre-built AI agents -- spanning marketing, operations, IT, manufacturing, retail, professional services and healthcare roles -- plus a builder for custom agents (define a role, add guidance and examples, attach skills, grant access), assigned work like a colleague and acting on the same plan as human teammates through Asana's Work Graph.

Agent platform

AI StudioAgent platform

A no-code automation builder inside Asana: set a trigger (a new task, form submission or project event), give AI plain-language instructions for the action, and it runs automatically -- validating and routing intake, flagging risks and blockers, drafting briefs and templates, and sending alerts.

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