Atlassian Summit 25: Rovo AI teammate + a ‘curated set’ of apps & agents

Collaboration and productivity software platform company Atlassian used its Team ‘25 conference in Anaheim (California) this week to detail news of broader access to its AI-powered teammate solution, Rovo… as well as what it calls a “curated set of apps & agents” bringing a wider selection of its platform and tools together.

The company announced its new Rovo Studio app, software engineering designed to allow users to create custom AI-powered agents with low-code/no-code options.

Atlassian has spent some time working to coalesce its products into collected and curated sets so that users can get more of what they need across the company’s platform in one go.

Its curated sets of apps and agents in this case are designed to solve specific challenges for different types of teams.

Teamwork Collection lets teams get work done on a common set of tools.
Strategy Collection helps business leaders assess how their teams’ day-to-day work “ladders up” to larger company goals and strategic initiatives.
Talent, a new app, enables leaders to allocate their people to the highest-priority projects.

Rovo, which was unveiled at last year’s Team ‘24 conference, is the first Atlassian solution developed in and for the AI era. A note on the above term “ladder up” (a favoured term inside Atlassian), which in this context is used to mean business actions that connect or build upon each other to achieve a higher goal or objective.

As part of bringing Rovo to all Atlassian customers, the company is rolling out usage quotas of AI credits and Indexed Objects in all plans and collections.

Mike Cannon-Brookes, CEO

Mike Cannon-Brookes, CEO and co-founder of Atlassian, has enthused about his firm’s platform and said that Atlassian Rovo combines Rovo Search, an app which surfaces the most useful information from across both Atlassian tools and third-party sources and Rovo Chat, which distils company data into a tailored conversation. With Rovo Agents, out-of-the-box or custom-made AI teammates that can take action on a user’s behalf.

Atlassian says that Rovo has moved to become available to all Jira, Confluence and Jira Service Management users as part of their subscriptions, starting with Premium and Enterprise, with Standard customers to follow.

Alongside Rovo Search, Chat and Agents, Atlassian also unveiled Rovo Studio. This new app works to build custom AI-powered agents with low-code/no-code options; tailoring processes and rules with automation; modelling real-world objects with assets and schemas; and curating interactive views of content with hubs.

The company created Studio as a result of watching so many customers build agents themselves and – painfully, perhaps – always having to start with a blank canvas. This means that Studio provides a lot of the “scaffolding” that users will need to initiate their projects… meaning that they can spend more time focusing on customising agents and making them more finely-tuned for an exact purpose.

Developers will also be able to use Forge to create custom skills, build agents with code, or extend the user interface of their apps.

Rovo Search now has 50 connectors (and counting) across Atlassian and third-party tools like OneDrive, Gmail or Notion, making context-switching, lost information and knowledge siloes less of an issue.

AI product head Valliani

Jamil Valliani, Atlassian head of product for AI spoke to press and analysts during Atlassian Team 25 to assert his opinion that “AI is only useful if it is easy to adopt” today, so that means making sure AI is woven into customers’ existing workflows. Detailing the work carried out to extend Atlassian’s ‘Search’ capabilities, Valliani says that Atlassian is already one of the biggest enterprise search technology companies on the planet.

“We are so focused on search because we see it as fundamental to employees being able to be function inside an AI-empowered team,” said Valliani. “Search is very personal for every user, so Atlassian has made sure the Atlassian ‘teamwork graph’ knows who each user is and what content should be relevant to each individual. We believe that we are one of the only companies to offer semantic search at the scale we do i.e. users do need to guess ‘how’ the search engine wants to be questioned [and so can use more natural language] to get answers.

A proprietary common data model, “teamwork graph is what Atlassian Rovo special says Valliani and team. The graph pulls in data from Atlassian tools and other SaaS apps the user chooses to connect with to unlock a comprehensive view of an organisation’s goals, knowledge, teams and work.

Atlassian Teamwork Graph

Deep Research (coming soon) from Atlassian synthesises insights from organisational Teamwork Graph data and tailors them for each individual user. This allows users to rely on Rovo Chat for long-term strategic planning, big decisions and understanding tradeoffs.

Developer support

Additionally, Atlassian has added new out-of the-box agents for facilitating teamwork, supporting developers and improving company-wide service delivery. Teamwork Graph, a data intelligence layer that connects Atlassian with third-party data, powers each of these innovations; it understands how all work objects across an organisation – like teams, messages and goals – interconnect by mapping billions of data connections across over 10 billion data objects.

“In an effort to assist organisations as they implement a unified System of Work (and work to partake in the human-AI collaboration of the future), Atlassian has released new Collections of apps and agents tailored to specific use cases. Atlassian’s new Strategy Collection connects leaders to every part of their organisation and provides a clear view of the connection between strategy and execution, replete with real-time data showing whether teams are driving towards the highest-priority outcomes. This specialised collection brings together three apps: Focus (now available to the general public), Talent (a brand new app) and Jira Align,” said the company, in a press statement.

Focus transforms a static strategic plan into what Atlassian calls “a living artifact” where leaders can see in real time how the company is tracking against top priorities and key results… it provides a hub for mapping and tracking goals, work, teams and funds related to strategic initiatives or priorities.

The new Talent app gives project or team leaders a view of how resources are deployed to a Focus Area and helps them ensure people are in the right place to support both short- and long-term goals. If a project is lacking a vital skill set, AI can help; leaders can use the Talent Finder agent to search for employees with skills matching project demands.
Align enables enterprise-wide work planning and tells teams what they should work on next, which roadblocks and risks are appearing and how work is translating into value.

Teamwork Collection is designed to enable cross-functional collaboration and align technical and business teams towards a common goal. To recap Atlassian’s toolset here once more:

Jira helps teams plan and track work.
Confluence provides a workspace for knowledge-sharing and collaboration.
Loom enables video communication for all teams.
Rovo agents work at various levels from the Brainstorm Facilitator to the Diagram Creator or Workflow Builder to help manage workflows to improve decision-making

Atlassian claims that each app and agent contributes value on its own, but the magic happens when they’re used together. By using their combined strengths, teams can use Jira, Confluence, Loom and Rovo agents to break down silos and foster a culture of teamwork that empowers everyone to contribute.

Looking ahead, the Atlassian Isolated Cloud, launching in 2026, is a virtual private cloud solution made for enterprises with the most stringent requirements for handling highly sensitive data.