Looking for an Asana alternative built for startups?
Asana is powerful but expensive and complex for early-stage teams. Trilo gives startups task management, chat, docs, video, and AI coworkers in one affordable workspace that grows with you.
TL;DR
Asana is a mature project management tool but its per-user pricing, feature complexity, and lack of built-in chat or video make it heavy for startups. Trilo gives you Asana-level task management plus chat, docs, video, and AI for $25 per month flat. Choose Asana if you need enterprise portfolio management. Choose Trilo if you want everything in one place at startup-friendly pricing.
Why teams leave Asana
Per-user pricing punishes growth
Asana Premium costs $10.99 per user per month. A 15-person startup pays $165 per month for tasks alone, before adding Slack, Zoom, and Notion.
No chat, no video, no docs
Asana manages tasks but your team still needs Slack for chat, Zoom for calls, and Notion for documents. That is four tools, four logins, and scattered context.
Feature overload for small teams
Portfolios, workloads, goals, custom fields, rules, forms, approvals. Startups need a task board and some AI help, not an enterprise cockpit.
AI costs extra
Asana Intelligence is only available on Business and Enterprise plans starting at $24.99 per user per month. For a 15-person startup, that is $375 per month.
What you get with Trilo
Everything for $25/mo
Tasks, chat, docs, video, calendar, and AI
AI coworkers from day one
Autonomous agents included on every plan
Simple enough for startups
Kanban boards and lists without the enterprise bloat
One app replaces five
Stop paying for Asana + Slack + Zoom + Notion + Calendly
Quick comparison
How Trilo helps
Startup-Friendly Pricing That Scales
A 15-person startup on Asana Premium, Slack Pro, Zoom, Notion, and Calendly pays $400 or more per month. Trilo gives you all of those capabilities for $25 per month flat. That is over $4,500 per year back in your runway to spend on building your product.
Tasks That Live Where Conversations Happen
In Asana, tasks are isolated from team discussions. Someone posts in Slack, then manually creates an Asana task, then context gets lost between the two. In Trilo, a chat message can become a task in one click, and AI keeps conversations and tasks linked automatically.
AI That Multiplies a Small Team
Early-stage startups cannot hire for every role. Trilo AI coworkers handle meeting transcription, task creation from discussions, document drafting, and project updates. It is like adding team members without the headcount or the per-user pricing.
Ready for project management that fits your startup?
Join startups who replaced Asana and four other tools with one workspace.