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Asana A- Sovereign

Graded A- on resilience. In Vannus's assessment it routes across several model providers — not captured by one.

Work management platform for tasks, projects and portfolios, with Asana AI features routed to admin-selectable third-party model providers.

project management, productivity, collaboration
What the vendor's own documentation says
Certain Asana AI features and functionality are powered by the third-party AI providers below (“AI Partners”), as updated from time to time and further described in the Documentation.
asana.com ↗ Vendor-sourced
Who controls it
US corporate control
OriginUnited States
US corporate controlYes — a US parent or US contracting entity is on the public record
Contracting entityAsana, Inc.
Governing lawthe laws of the State of California, with exclusive jurisdiction and venue in the state or Federal courts located in San Francisco, California
Trains on your dataYes, unless you opt out — on the vendor's default plan
On a paid or enterprise planDoes not train on your data — no retention position stated

Applies to: Asana AI ships on Starter, Advanced, Enterprise, Enterprise+; the Product-Specific Terms bind Asana for all of them

From the enterprise terms: “Asana does not use or permit third-party AI partners to use Customer Data to train generative artificial intelligence models used to provide Asana AI.” asana.com ↗

Training and retention posture varies by plan. The default-plan row above describes the vendor’s free or standard tier; the paid-plan row is quoted from the document linked beside it. A negotiated contract can override either. Check your own agreement before relying on this.

This is a separate question from the grade above. The grade measures resilience — whether the tool endures and whether you could leave it. This describes who controls the vendor. A tool can score modestly on one and strongly on the other, and many do.

On U.S. CLOUD Act reach specifically: the statute reaches a provider subject to U.S. jurisdiction over data in its possession, custody or control. Corporate control is a strong indicator of that and it is what we can evidence from published documents — but it is not the whole test. A company founded outside the U.S. can still contract through a U.S. entity or run substantial U.S. operations. Treat this as a starting point for your own review, not a legal determination, and take advice on anything that matters.

Signals on file
Origin
United States

The vendor's published or catalog-recorded posture — the concrete facts this grade is built from. A full audit verifies each against the vendor's current documentation.

Compliance the vendor states
SOC2GDPRISO 27001

Taken from the vendor’s own published material. Vannus does not hold these reports and has not reviewed their scope or dates — ask the vendor for the current report before relying on any of them.

How this grade is set

Vannus publishes a nine-dimension trust framework — data sovereignty, training privacy, compliance posture, operational resilience, exit portability, and more. The heaviest criterion asks whether the tool builds its own AI or resells someone else's model; where the vendor discloses it, the grade cites the vendor's own documentation. No paid placements — scoring is walled off from affiliate revenue. See the methodology →

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