Bose: Training AI on company history prevents average, generic outputs
Arnab Bose · Should Software Companies Embrace AI or fight it? — With Asana Chief Product Officer Arnab Bose · Apr 7, 2026 · at 15:36
Arnab Bose, Chief Product Officer at Asana, discusses how AI agent workflows grounded in internal corporate context prevent generic or low-quality AI outputs.
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“And so that's step one, which is like, it's learning from this historical set of tasks and creative briefs that your company has created. So again, it's not sort of giving you the average of averages across creative briefs in the world. It's highly trained and focused on how you all have done your messaging, your campaigns in the past. So it should be getting to an 80% or 90% good state from that, and it's not creating, like, AI slop.”
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