ClickUp is making a major strategic bet on autonomous AI agents. The company announced it has acquired Codegen, a platform specializing in agentic AI and code generation, to integrate deep engineering capabilities directly into its unified project management suite.
This move signals that the future of work software isn't just about organizing tasks, but having AI complete them entirely. ClickUp’s goal is to cement its position as the world’s first “Converged AI Workspace,” transforming every knowledge worker into a potential software creator.
The acquisition is designed to supercharge ClickUp’s forthcoming ‘Super Agents.’ These agents are designed to act as true digital coworkers, capable of autonomously managing projects, communicating, and even generating software using over 500 work skills.
ClickUp CEO Zeb Evans framed the strategy as adapting AI to humans, not the reverse. “Super Agents don’t just automate. They understand, remember, and act with context,” Evans stated.
The Context Bottleneck
The key differentiator, according to both companies, is context. Codegen’s technology, which previously focused on generating autonomous pull requests for engineering teams, will now operate natively within ClickUp’s platform. This gives the AI access to all company plans, documents, and goals, eliminating the context fragmentation that often plagues enterprise AI tools.
Codegen founder and CEO Jay Hack, a respected figure in the agentic AI space, will immediately take over as ClickUp’s Head of AI. Hack emphasized that the bottleneck for agents transforming work is no longer AI capability, but context.
“ClickUp is the only platform that houses all of a company’s plans, docs, and goals in one place,” Hack added.
By merging high-level project oversight with low-level code execution, ClickUp is directly challenging competitors like Atlassian (Jira) and Notion, who are also racing to integrate deeper, more autonomous AI functions into their platforms. The acquisition represents a significant talent and technology grab in the increasingly competitive market for agentic workflow automation.
