Remote & Async Work Infrastructure
70% of companies now hybrid. Async tools are the missing infrastructure layer.
Growth Overview
12-Month Trend
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Overview
Tools purpose-built for distributed and asynchronous collaboration: async video updates, collaborative docs with timezone-aware workflows, meeting-free decision making, and digital office spaces. The market matured beyond "Zoom alternatives" into specific workflow tools for teams that rarely overlap in real-time.
What's Driving This Growth?
- ▸70% of companies operating hybrid or fully remote as permanent policy
- ▸Meeting fatigue driving demand for async communication alternatives
- ▸Global talent hiring creating timezone-spanning teams
- ▸AI meeting summarization reducing the need for synchronous attendance
Market Signals
- ✓Loom acquired by Atlassian for $975M, validating async video category
- ✓Notion AI reaching 10M+ monthly users with collaborative AI docs
- ✓Slack added AI-powered catch-up summaries and channel digests in 2025
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