Asana's AI agents share memory across your company — but not your secrets

Enterprise teams building AI agents keep hitting the same wall: a chatbot that can answer a prompt but can't remember what the last five people asked it, and can't tell you whether last month's version actually worked.In a fireside chat with VentureBeat's Sam Witteveen at VB Transform 2026, Asana's chief product officer, Arnab Bose, unpacked how his team tackled this problem to build a new operating system: Agentic Work Management (AWM). The product treats AI agents as coachable teammates that operate alongside humans rather than as one-to-one assistants.For product builders and developers trying to move beyond basic integrations, Bose provided a look under the hood. He detailed how Asana engineered AWM, offering a blueprint for solving real-world bottlenecks and building agentic systems a