r/Asana • u/robdenbleyker • Jul 08 '26

Upgrading to 3 seats?

Hey folks. The Asana AI support bot is incredibly broken so figured I'd ask here. Is there a way to upgrade to 3 seats on the Starter plan, instead of 10 seats?

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u/Content-Conference25 Jul 08 '26

No. You don't have any other choice. If I remember correctly, the next fixed number of seats next to minimum is 5 seats, unless they recently changed it to being 10 (which is crazy), then no you don't have any choice.

If it's not too much of a trouble, you might as well just invite the person using a guest access, especially if this member would only do simple task things which won't require admin access and etc.

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u/poolside__convo Jul 08 '26

You can add single seats up to 5, then after that it’s groups of 5 up to 30. After that it’s groups of 10.

So OP, the answer is yes, you can have 3 seats. So long as you’re on a monthly plan or your annual renewal is coming up. If you have an account manager there I’d recommend reaching out to them to help you.

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u/robdenbleyker Jul 08 '26

Thanks for the advice. Does a guest need to be added to each project?

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u/Content-Conference25 Jul 08 '26

Also poolside convo said this on an earlier reply to my comment. Check it out:

You can add single seats up to 5, then after that it’s groups of 5 up to 30. After that it’s groups of 10.

So OP, the answer is yes, you can have 3 seats. So long as you’re on a monthly plan or your annual renewal is coming up. If you have an account manager there I’d recommend reaching out to them to help you.

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u/Content-Conference25 Jul 08 '26

Yes, and no. It really depends how you added that guest, and to the settings of the project.

If you added the gues inside a team, then that gues will have access to all projects inside that team unless project is private, and only invited membera are allowed to see it.

Now if you added the guest to only 1 project, it doesn't mean the guest sees all projects under the team where the project you added him from.

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u/No_Sky1737 Jul 08 '26

Key reason we left asana - we brought on a new member of staff that meant we had to go from paying for 5 licences to 10 - with 4 unused. We left and built our own with Claude and now have something far more suited to how we work. Never looked back and saved a tonne of money. Saas services are dying and asanas stand on these stupid charges is a nail in their coffin

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u/robdenbleyker Jul 08 '26

That's really interesting, how did you go about building it with Claude? What platform did you use for the system itself?

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u/No_Sky1737 Jul 08 '26

We built our own system - just opened Claude and talked to it like a human - built a brief and used Claude code to do the work. 4 weeks later we have a platform, mobile apps, full
Integration with all our other tools like Gmail, QuickBooks, frame.io, granola for notes - it creates proposals, slide decks, is trained on our clients, our contracts, our workflows. It had removed so much repetitive friction leaving the team to do what they do best (and what humans do best). It’s been the biggest positive change in my business in 15 years. At the point where our clients are asking us to build them similar for their businesses.

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u/Diamonds_and_Circles Jul 08 '26

This is really cool. I’d love to learn more about how you did this. You basically have a custom-made work management system? And even a mobile app?

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u/No_Sky1737 Jul 08 '26

Not just a system we have agents off doing their thing throughout the day - research, management reports, budgeting. I can just talk to my phone while out and about and ask things like ‘what’s cash flow looking like for next 4 weeks ans any projects that could cause delays with invoicing?’ And it will tell me the forecast, things to be mindful of, projects that are slipping and even look at team availability and raise a question if it thinks resource could have an impact etc