A project manager can now describe a project to an AI and get a working Gantt chart in under a minute. The AI picks the formulas, sets the conditional formatting, and hands back a sheet the team can share. No software license. No onboarding.
Finance teams started cutting SaaS subscriptions in 2023. The pace accelerated in 2024 and 2025. Asana’s own executives called out an increase in scrutiny on earnings calls, which is a polite way to say that when a software budget gets cut, the SaaS tools are often the first thing to go.
Asana stock is down about 50% year to date. The CEO changed. The company ran layoffs in February 2025 and revenue growth slowed to single digits.
Ninety days is the timeframe where ambition and accountability overlap. Long enough to build something real. Short enough that the deadline still feels like it matters.
Most small businesses track revenue. They log what came in, maybe sort it by month, and call it sales tracking. That is bookkeeping, not goal setting. A target tracker tells you what needs to happen next.
Strava is a social network that happens to record your runs. Getting kudos from friends feels nice. It will not help you break 3:30 in the marathon. For that, you need your data in a place where you can actually work with it.
Every few months, someone discovers the Google Sheets QUERY function and has the same reaction: why did nobody tell me about this? Here is what it does and why it changes how you work with data.
The Gemini sidebar and the AI function look related because they’re both powered by Gemini. But they work in fundamentally different ways, serve different use cases, and produce results you have to handle differently. Using the wrong one for a task is like using a calculator when you needed a notebook.
Most people are still copying data out of Sheets, pasting it into ChatGPT, then copying the results back. Google quietly made that entire process unnecessary. The =AI() function brings Gemini
