Asana's CEO lets AI agents manage his inbox, monitor performance, and track rivals
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A public CEO running personal workflow through agents is a cultural green light for executive-grade automation. If you’re selling into leadership, bring concrete agent use cases — inbox triage, competitive monitoring, performance surfacing — and be ready to talk about failure modes and override controls.
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