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Asana shows you what happened. Performalise shows you what to do about it.

Asana is where cross-functional teams plan and track work, goals included. Performalise reads that work, plus your standups, commits, deploys and product usage, and tells you which of it moves the product. Not a plugin, not a replacement. Often used together.

+33%
More successful sprints
+45%
Stakeholder satisfaction
26K+
Team improvement ideas
±4-6w
Sprint predictability

Asana knows what someone typed. It cannot know what the team did.

Every status in Asana is entered by a person, after the fact, with whatever they remember and whatever the board allows. That is not a flaw in Asana; it is what a tracker is. But it means the goals hierarchy, the portfolio view and the status reports all rest on the same foundation: a human summary, typed late. When the summary and the work drift apart, nothing in Asana can tell you. It shows the plan holding right up to the review where it doesn't.

Performalise reads the Asana work, then reads around it: what the team said in standup, what the commits and deploys show, what users did once the feature shipped. The gap between the typed status and the observed one is the signal. It tells you on Wednesday that a goal is drifting, which objective it feeds, and what the move is, while there is still time to act. Asana stays the system of record. It stops being the only witness.

How it's different

Dashboards observe. Performalise anticipates, then positions.

One team, one sprint, the same signal travelling left to right.

Observe
What actually happened?
Said vs did: PERF-214 called blocked in standup. The board still says in progress.
Unplanned work: PERF-230 added mid-sprint, tied to no sprint goal.

Observed from standups, tickets, commits and deploys. Nobody typed a status.

your dashboards stop here
Anticipate
What does it mean for what's ahead?
Goal confidence heading for 40–55% by sprint end.
Q3 release: 67% chance of slipping three weeks or more.

Read two ways: from this team's own behaviour, and from what is already heading its way, so the manager can position before it lands.

Position
Which outcome matters most right now?
Faster? Split the run-the-business work out of the sprint
Higher value? Hold scope, move the date
Higher predictability? Re-scope to protect the goal
The move

Park the unplanned work and re-anchor the sprint goal. Goal confidence rises from 40–55% to 65–75%.

You pick the outcome. Performalise shows the move, the trade-off, and who needs to know. Never a score, never a pre-selected answer.

That last column is what "Powered by choice" means: the manager chooses the outcome, the tool shows the move. See the full platform →

The detailed comparison

Feature-by-feature: Performalise vs Asana

Capability Asana Performalise
Work and task tracking Core strength: projects, sections, timelines, portfolios Reads it; Asana stays the system of record
Goals Goals hierarchy, status typed by owners ✓ Two-ladder goal model, status from what teams said and did
Drift detection Status reports, updated by hand ✓ Goal confidence daily, said versus did
Delivery forecasting Timeline and workload views ✓ ±4-6 week ranges from the team's own behaviour
Validated value from usage – ✓ GA4, Clarity, Amplitude, Pendo close the loop
AI coaching in the sprint AI summaries and status drafts ✓ Hans and Lotte, 24/7, every Agile Event
Team health and psychological safety – ✓ Team Voice, anonymous and continuous
Product discovery and validation Forms and intake projects ✓ 5-stage validated pipeline
Value intelligence / RICE Custom fields ✓ RICE, OKR fit, cost of delay, built in
Cross-team portfolio view Portfolios, typed status ✓ Health, alignment and risk, observed
Retrospective intelligence – ✓ Actions tracked to completion
Kaizen Engine – ✓ Yes
Automation and rules Strong, no-code rules Not the job; Asana keeps doing this
Non-technical team adoption Built for it Reads the work; coaching aimed at product teams
Integrations Slack, Teams, Google Workspace, Jira, GitHub and hundreds more ✓ Jira, Azure DevOps, Linear, Asana; GitHub, Teams, Slack, Meet, Vercel, Supabase, GA4, Clarity, Amplitude, Pendo
Pricing Per user, per month ✓ From $450/team/month
Asana + Performalise. Teams keep planning in Asana. Performalise reads that work, plus the standup, the commits, the deploys and the usage afterwards, and turns it into goal alignment, drift detection, predictability and coaching. Nothing migrates, nobody types a second status.
Fit check

Who is Performalise not for?

We would rather tell you now than after a sprint. Performalise is not the right fit if:

  1. You want individual productivity scores. We measure patterns, not people. There are no per-person leaderboards.
  2. Your teams do not work in Jira, Azure DevOps, Linear or Asana. Those are the front doors today. Other trackers are also supported, just talk to us.
  3. You want a dashboard and no coach. The signal only becomes value when the AI Coach Hans or Lotte act on it inside the team. If nobody wants coaching, you would be paying for reports, which would be sad.
  4. You want velocity as a productivity target. Velocity is a planning signal for the team that owns it. We will not turn it into a KPI or compare it across teams.
  5. You measure success in output. Story points closed, tickets shipped, commits per week. We tie work to outcomes: usage, retention, OKR movement. If output is the scoreboard, the signal will keep disagreeing with it.
  6. You want the objectives to look fine. Every goal on the ladder carries its real confidence, read from what teams said and did this week. Leadership sees the threat early and is expected not to look away. A tool that colours things green for the meeting is a different tool.
  7. You want a date, not a range. Forecasts arrive as ranges (±4-6 weeks across a portfolio) with the confidence behind them. If a single promised date is required, we will disappoint you honestly rather than precisely.

If none of those apply, see it in action →

When to use each

Asana vs Performalise

Different tools for different jobs. Often used together.

Asana is for:

Cross-functional teams who need one place to plan, assign and track work.

  • Projects, sections and timelines
  • Portfolios and workload
  • A goals hierarchy people can see
  • No-code rules and automation
  • Non-technical adoption
  • Status reporting

Performalise is for:

Product and engineering leaders who need to know whether the work moves the product, and coaches who need to act on it inside the sprint.

  • Goal alignment, observed not typed
  • Drift caught daily
  • Delivery ranges you can defend
  • Value validated from real usage
  • Coaching in every Agile Event
  • Portfolio health, all teams

Best together:

Asana records the plan. Performalise reads what happened to it.

  • Asana for planning and tracking
  • Performalise for alignment and coaching
  • Asana stays the system of record
  • Read-only, revocable connection
  • No second status to type
  • Scales across every team
The impact

What Performalise changes

+33%
More successful sprints with predictable delivery
+45%
Improvement in stakeholder satisfaction
26K+
Ideas (single client)
±4-6w
Sprint predictability tightened from ±months
FAQs

Questions about comparing Performalise and Asana

Does Performalise replace Asana? ▼
No. Asana stays the system of record. Asana is where cross-functional teams plan and track work, goals included. Performalise reads that work, plus your standups, commits, deploys and product usage, and tells you which of it actually moves the product, then coaches the team to stay aligned. Nothing migrates.
Can Performalise connect to Asana? ▼
Yes. Asana is one of the four work-tracking front doors, alongside Jira, Azure DevOps and Linear. Performalise reads tasks, projects, sections and status changes through a read-only, revocable token. It does not read attachments or comments on untracked items. The full list is on the integrations page.
Asana has Goals. Why would I need a goal model on top? ▼
Because a typed status is not a signal. Asana Goals are a hierarchy someone updates by hand. Performalise keeps the goal ladder, but the status of every rung comes from what the team said and did, and value is validated from real usage rather than from the roadmap. The difference shows up as drift: Performalise tells you on Wednesday that a sprint goal is at risk and which objective it feeds. A typed status tells you at the review. How the goal model works →
Do I need both? ▼
If your teams plan in Asana and like it, keep it. Add Performalise when you need to know whether the work moves the product, when it will land, and whether a team is drifting from its goal while there is still time to act. Typical setup: Asana for planning and tracking at team level, Performalise for goal alignment, predictability and coaching across all teams.
Comparable pricing? ▼
Asana charges per user. Performalise charges per team. Per-user pricing scales with headcount; per-team pricing scales with the number of teams you want aligned, forecast and coached, whatever their size. Different investments for different outcomes. See Performalise pricing →
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Asana holds the plan. Performalise tells you what happened to it.

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