Clickup adds a new AI assistant to better compete with slack and understanding

Clickup has redesigned its productivity platform and released a new assistant feature that aims to create a one-step shop for customers.

The company says the core part of this release may be due to its existence CATALOG acquisitiona company search startup that has raised more than $29.5 million from backers like Ventures Salesfor, Atomico, Prototype capital, VRIs Mosaic, and possibly Usik.

Clickup launched two types of AI agents with the 4.0 release. The first is an agent that is present in all communication channels. The agent is designed to look for questions that can be asked and try to answer them using knowledge stored in the company and external sources like Google Drive, and Gmail.

The other assistant, called the brain, is a more general assistant that can generate ideas, perform tasks like scheduling meetings as well as adding comments, or creating new ones. It can also access the Web and other integrated tools, analyze reports, and create draft lists. Like many AI assistants, the brain also lives in the sidebar and can be accessed anywhere in the ClickUp interface.

The A16Z-powered productivity company says the new release makes it easier for users to switch between tasks, documents, and communications. Click 4.0 allows you to view the International Forum timeline, switch between different communication channels, and view tasks through the options in the sidebar.

Clickup has tried to do better with the likes Author, Slackand Microsoft teams by providing calendar, communication, and document, enterprise search, and task tracking under a single product.

Startups have tried to make that communication have parity with the likes of slack and teams. Overview An AI-powered overview and Internal Live calls and audio calls called Syncron last yearSee rank-. It has now created a sync button on each channel and also can not display this Live video call, contact, and send notes to everyone.

Company calendar tool It can now see your meetings spread out and set meetings and tasks automatically if you mark certain tasks as priority. Clickup also features a styled team dashboard where leaders can view multiple updates from multiple channels, track team analytics on work progress, and check who’s dead this week.

“Eight years ago, when we started, the vision and the strategy was to change all work software. The strategy is to do primitive, and tasks,” said CEO Zeb Evans who told Techcrunch by phone.

Evans said Clickup has had good momentum in the past few years and has crossed $300 million in annual recurring revenue. He noted that at this rate of growth, the company plans to go public within two years. Clickup has raised more than $537 million in funding from Investors like A16Z, Tiger Global, Craft, and Lightspeed, according to crunchbase data.