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Wokay Launches From India to Replace Slack, WhatsApp, and Asana With One Unified AI Workspace

• ByStartupStory     |    May 22, 2025

Hyderabad-based startup Wokay.com has officially announced the public launch of its all-in-one team collaboration platform. Positioned as a sleek and AI-powered alternative to a fragmented SaaS stack, Wokay aims to unify the functionalities of Slack, WhatsApp, Asana, Calendly, and Zendesk under a single intuitive interface.

At the heart of Wokay is a commitment to simplify how modern teams operate by integrating team chat, task management, ticketing, calendars, and a smart AI assistant called Woby into one cohesive workspace. The platform has been crafted for small to mid-sized businesses and growing teams who are overwhelmed by switching between multiple apps to get their daily work done.

“The global SaaS stack is bloated. SMBs are tired of stitching together five or six tools just to run their daily work,” said Shrikanth K, Founder and CEO of Wokay. “Wokay is not just another app. It is a clean operating system for how teams collaborate in the AI era.”

The inception of Wokay traces back to Shrikanth’s challenges during his previous entrepreneurial venture — a digital marketing agency he scaled and later exited. “Our entire team was spread across WhatsApp, Slack, Asana, Freshdesk, and Google Sheets,” he recalls. “It was chaotic, slowed us down, and cost us real money. Wokay is the tool I wish we had back then.”

What sets Wokay apart is its chat-first approach. Unlike traditional work tools that require constant context-switching, Wokay makes conversations the core of collaboration. From chats, users can seamlessly create tasks, schedule meetings, handle support tickets, and even delegate work to Woby — the AI assistant that converts discussions into actionable items. With native features built in, there’s no dependency on third-party integrations or complex onboarding.

Wokay was founded by Shrikanth K, a second-time founder and ex-Google sales leader (Hockystick); Abhijit Gogoi, Chief Marketing Officer and creative lead; and Amit Saharana, ex-Founding Engineer at 100ms and now CTO at Wokay. Together, they lead a focused team of ex-Googlers and IIT alumni, united by a vision to make work tools radically simpler, smarter, and built for speed.

Though built in India, Wokay has global ambitions. “We believe the next great productivity platform will not come from Silicon Valley,” Shrikanth adds. “It will come from markets where teams hustle harder, move faster, and expect more from their software.”

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