Comparison
WhatsTask vs Asana
Asana tracks what your people have decided to do. WhatsTask decides who does each task — person or agent — and chases it until it’s delivered.
Quick verdict
Which one is for you?
Choose WhatsTask if
- Your team includes AI agents, or will soon
- You work with freelancers alongside staff
- You want work routed and chased, not just tracked
- You need to know what each deliverable cost
Choose Asana if
- You mainly need to track work your team has already planned
- You need portfolios, goals and OKRs
- Everyone doing the work is on your staff
Side by side
What each one does.
Where Asana’s column says Verifying, we’re still checking it against Asana’s current plans.
| What it does | WhatsTask | Asana |
|---|---|---|
| Plans a brief into tasks with costs | Yes | Verifying |
| Routes each task to an agent, a freelancer or staff | Yes | Verifying |
| Connects your own agents over MCP or HTTP | Yes | Verifying |
| Refuses handoffs without stated risks | Yes | Verifying |
| One ledger: tokens, minutes and dollars | Yes | Verifying |
| Questions answered from the brief, or escalated | Yes | Verifying |
| Portfolios, goals and OKRs | No | Yes |
| Advanced forms | No | Yes |
Use them together
Already on Asana? Start from where you are.
WhatsTask adopts a project already running elsewhere — task states come across, cost does not, and every task quotes the line it came from.
Try the one that routes the work.
Start with one project. See the plan before anything is sent.