ClickUp provides new AI assistant to raised compete with Slack and Notion

ClickUp has redesigned its productiveness platform and launched new AI assistant options because it goals to create a one-stop store for purchasers.

The corporate mentioned core components of this launch have been potential due to its acquisition of Qatalog, the enterprise search startup that had raised greater than $29.5 million from backers like Salesforce Ventures, Atomico, Prototype Capital, Mosaic Ventures, Tiny VC, and Attainable Ventures.

ClickUp is launching two varieties of AI brokers with its 4.0 launch. The primary one is an agent that’s current in all communication channels. The agent is designed to proactively search for questions folks may need requested and attempt to reply them utilizing information saved in throughout the firm and exterior sources like Google Drive, OneDrive, Figma, and Gmail.

The opposite assistant, referred to as Mind, is a extra general-purpose assistant that may generate concepts, carry out duties like scheduling a gathering based mostly on the supply of teammates in addition to add a remark underneath a activity, or create a brand new one. It might additionally entry the online and different built-in instruments, analyze studies, and create drafts. Similar to many different AI assistants, Mind additionally lives within the sidebar and is accessible anyplace on the ClickUp interface.

The a16z-backed productiveness firm mentioned the brand new launch is making it simpler for customers to change between duties, docs, and communications. ClickUp 4.0 enables you to take a look at your inner firm discussion board timeline, swap between completely different communication channels, and take a look at your duties by means of choices within the sidebar.

ClickUp has been making an attempt to raised compete with the likes of Notion, Slack, and Microsoft Groups by offering calendar, communication, and paperwork, enterprise search, and activity monitoring underneath one product.

The startup has tried to make its communication have function parity with the likes of Slack and Groups. It launched AI-powered summaries and inner dwell video and audio calls referred to as Syncups final 12 months. Now it’s putting a Syncup button in each channel and in addition permitting its AI notetaker to report these dwell video calls, transcribe them, and ship notes to everybody.

The corporate’s calendar device can now take a look at your assembly unfold and robotically modify conferences and duties for those who mark a sure activity as a precedence. ClickUp additionally shows an internet-style group dashboard the place leaders can see numerous updates from completely different channels, take a look at group analytics on work progress, and examine who has break day this week.

“Eight years in the past, after we began, the imaginative and prescient and the technique have been to switch all your work software program. The technique to do this was to construct a versatile knowledge fashions platform that can be utilized primarily for something, and construct primitives of software program like a spreadsheet, a desk, a doc, and a activity,” ClickUp CEO Zeb Evans instructed TechCrunch over a name. “Within the age of AI, they’re wanted to a fair better extent as a result of you’ll be able to’t actually visualize issues in AI inside a chat interface.”

Evans mentioned ClickUp has had nice momentum in the previous few years and has crossed $300 million in annual recurring income. He famous that with this progress fee, the corporate plans to go public inside two years. ClickUp has raised greater than $537 million in funding to this point from traders like a16z, Tiger International, Craft Ventures, and Lightspeed, in accordance with Crunchbase knowledge.