BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov 4, 2026--
Smartsheet, the AI-powered enterprise work management platform, today unveiled a new AI-native strategic planning and execution product at ENGAGE 2026, its annual customer conference. vsActual is designed to solve the two biggest obstacles to enterprise execution: siloed work scattered across disconnected systems and teams, and the manual tracking and reporting that keeps individuals and executives from seeing problems until it’s too late.
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AI is helping individuals move faster than ever, but it's also making it harder to keep everyone moving in the same direction. In fact, a PMI research report found that leaders cited the disconnect between planning and execution as the biggest barrier to reinventing their businesses, and VentureBeat Intelligence found that 64% of respondents traced poor AI responses back to missing business context. vsActual closes that gap. Its AI agents read across the systems teams already use such as Oracle, SAP, Workday, and Salesforce, but it doesn’t just connect work. vsActual is the only AI-native planning and execution solution that brings context from 20 years of workflow intelligence on real work patterns, so it actually understands how the work fits together. This context allows vsActual to give teams and leaders a real-time view of how work is progressing and flag risks, so they can course-correct before small issues become big problems.
“Every company has a strategy. The ones that win are the ones whose work actually delivers on that strategy,” said Rajeev Singh, chief executive officer at Smartsheet. “AI has made people faster, but it’s pulled work further apart, and leaders find out too late that the plan and reality have split. We’re building the Execution Hub, where strategy and execution meet. Our Execution Graph holds 20 years of context on how work really gets done, context others are trying to recreate, and we already have. vsActual puts that context to work, closing the distance between plan and actual so every team, leader and agent is pointed at the outcomes that matter most.”
“AI has exposed a gap that many organizations have lived with for years. Strategy lives in one place, while the work lives in dozens of others,” said Keith Kirkpatrick, VP, Research, with The Futurum Group. “As work spreads across teams, systems, partners, and agents, leaders need one place to see whether it’s all still headed in the same direction. Smartsheet is addressing this challenge head-on by bringing work, data, and strategic priorities into a single hub with a new AI-native planning layer that gives leaders a real-time view of execution, underpinned with the context required to ensure confident decisioning.”
vsActual: Connecting Enterprise Strategy to Execution
vsActual gives teams and leaders responsible for strategic outcomes a live view of whether work across the company is on track against its priorities. Teams keep working in the tools they already use, including Smartsheet, other work management tools, core financial and HR software like Oracle, SAP, and Workday, and platforms like Jira and ServiceNow, while vsActual reads across them all, closing the gaps between systems where delays, budget overruns and overallocating people tend to go unnoticed.
vsActual can:
Behind vsActual is the Execution Graph, which maps how work connects across the business, from tasks to projects to programs to strategic goals. Built on 20 years of workflow intelligence from millions of projects and nine petabytes of data, the Execution Graph knows what’s true about the work, who’s involved and what’s allowed, including the permissions, approvals and standards that govern it. That allows leaders to spot an overloaded team or a weak link between projects before it becomes a problem, and it means AI answers reflect how the business actually runs rather than a guess. People and AI agents work from the same governed graph, and agents can see and change only what the person they work for can.
"At Bealls, Smartsheet provides the foundation for how we manage our project portfolio, align resources, and drive strategic execution,” said Elizabeth Dandola, senior director of PMO & QA at Bealls, Inc. “vsActual has the potential to take that value even further by bringing long-range planning, budgeting, and portfolio management together in a more connected and adaptive way. We're particularly interested in its ability to support scenario planning, provide greater visibility into capacity and tradeoffs, and help organizations more effectively align investment decisions with evolving business priorities."
To learn more or sign up for updates, visit http://www.smartsheet.com/vsactual.
About Smartsheet
Smartsheet is an AI-powered enterprise work management platform. Teams use it to plan programs, track work across groups, automate routine processes and give leaders real-time visibility into how work is progressing. It sits between spreadsheets, which are flexible but hard to govern, and rigid project tools built for a single team. Smartsheet is used by millions of people at organizations, including the majority of the Fortune 500, with enterprise-grade security, administration and compliance controls. To learn more about Smartsheet, visit www.smartsheet.com.
Today, Smartsheet unveiled a new AI-native strategic planning and execution product, vsActual.
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian attacks triggered power and water outages for hours Wednesday across Kyiv and surrounding regions while President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the death toll in a stricken village in southern Ukraine rose to 40 in one of the deadliest strikes there in nearly five years of war.
On Monday, multiple Russian guided bombs slammed into a former school and nearby shelter in the village of Komyshuvakha, near the front line in the Zaporizhzhia region, as residents waited for humanitarian aid.
In addition to those killed, Zelenskyy said 30 more people could still be buried in the rubble.
“Unfortunately, there has been very little reaction from the world to this insane attack," he said in a post on X. "But it, like thousands upon thousands of other war crimes Russia has committed against Ukraine and Ukrainians, demands a strong response. Evil always goes further if it is left unanswered.”
Elsewhere, Moscow showed no signs of letting up its aerial assaults.
Before water and power were restored, residents in the capital of Kyiv were urged to use public drinking water fountains. Emergency centers were set up hastily in the worst-hit areas, offering hot tea and power for people seeking to charge electrical devices.
Russia attacked overnight with 310 drones, including 81 jet-powered drones, according to Ukraine’s air force. In its daily social media report, the air force said it downed or suppressed 272 drones of various types.
Such attacks are a regular feature of wartime life in Ukraine despite arrest warrants issued by the International Criminal Court in 2024 for two senior Russian officers whom prosecutors accuse of overseeing strikes on civilian infrastructure.
Officials from the United States, Germany, France, Britain, NATO, the World Bank and the European Union met Wednesday at the European Commission’s headquarters in Brussels to discuss the massive reconstruction effort that will be required once the war ends.
The commission said in a brief statement after the closed-door meeting that it “focused on refining the scenarios for Ukraine’s postwar economic development and prosperity.”
EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said she wanted the meeting to discuss European demands for Russian concessions in any negotiations. She said previous talks have been focused only on “what Ukraine should give away or what concessions they should make.”
The Brussels talks came ahead of a new round of U.S.-brokered peace negotiations next week, more than 4 1/2 years after Russia’s full-scale invasion of its neighbor.
Russian drones were hampering the search for victims in the village of Komyshuvakha, said Mykhailo Semikin, acting head of the regional military administration, but he added that operations there would continue.
Ivan Fedorov, co-chair of the regional defense council, said 12 bodies pulled from the rubble had been identified so far. The National Police of Ukraine said in a Telegram post that visual identification of some bodies was not possible and that specialists were working with relatives of the dead to collect DNA samples.
Body camera footage recovered from a police officer killed in the attack shows the devastating impact of the Russian guided bomb. The video was recorded Monday as the officer descended stairs into the shelter after the nearby aid distribution center was struck.
In the video, the officer speaks to survivors of the initial attack, urging them to seek shelter. “Go down! Why are you gathering here?” he is heard saying.
Moments after the officer enters a low-ceilinged underground room, a brief rumble is heard as the video cuts to black.
On Tuesday, Baptist pastor Vladyslav Makhovskyi joined the search for survivors. But as the day wore on, bodies wrapped in white plastic sheets were carried from the ruins and laid in rows as smoke drifted across the shattered landscape.
“When the bombs hit, people could no longer get out," Makhovskyi told The Associated Press. “I understand that many were killed immediately. Even if some were still alive, they probably couldn’t breathe."
The attack followed the end of a six-day ceasefire in the Russian-occupied city of Oleshky in the southwestern Ukrainian region of Kherson. It was the most significant truce between Kyiv and Moscow since 2022, and allowed the evacuation of residents from the shattered city.
Zelenskyy awarded U.S. first lady Melania Trump the Order of Princess Olga, 1st class — an honor for women who have made an outstanding contribution to the Ukrainian state.
She was recognized for her humanitarian support, including human rights and charitable activities aimed at helping Ukrainian children, according to the presidential website.
She was credited with brokering the ceasefire to allow those trapped in Oleshky to leave.
The Kremlin, meanwhile, expressed hope that U.S. President Donald Trump will continue his efforts to end the war in Ukraine regardless of the outcome of the midterm elections that saw Democrats take control of Congress, spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine said Wednesday it had uncovered a criminal plot involving senior officials from the country’s security service, prosecutor general’s office and national police who were alleged to have taken kickbacks from the criminal underworld in exchange for protecting fraudulent call centers, drug sales and illegal cigarette and currency operations.
It was the latest in a series of graft scandals that have plagued Zelenskyy's presidency.
In September, former Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko resigned after investigators accused one of his subordinates of running a scheme linked to fraudulent call centers.
Meanwhile, Russia’s Ministry of Defense said that it shot down 709 Ukrainian drones overnight.
The major online retailer Ozon said that a drone attack caused a fire to break out at its logistics center in Adygeysk, in Russia’s Adygea region, but that there were no casualties.
Corder reported from The Hague, Netherlands. Associated Press writers Derek Gatopoulos in Kyiv, Elise Morton in London and Lorne Cook in Brussels contributed.
People walk past a billboard which features Russian soldiers from the World War II and the current military action in Ukraine, which reads 'Each era has its own heroes', in St. Petersburg, Russia, Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy delivers a speech at the Berlin Security Conference in Berlin, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
A damaged residential building is seen after a Russian air attack in Dnipro, Ukraine, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2026. (AP Photo)
An underground school lies destroyed after a Russian airstrike in Komyshuvakha, Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2026. (AP Photo)
Rescuers carry a body of a person killed by a Russian airstrike on underground school of Komyshuvakha, Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine, Monday, Nov. 2, 2026. (AP Photo)
