{"id":389187,"date":"2026-04-09T04:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T04:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/389187\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T04:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T04:07:08","slug":"atlassian-gussies-up-confluence-for-the-ai-era-the-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/389187\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlassian gussies up Confluence for the AI era \u2022 The Register"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Atlassian is modernizing Confluence for the AI era, testing tools and agentic capabilities that give users the chance to turn their written notes into graphics and their ideas into software applications.<\/p>\n<p>Each product is in its early stages and is being tested with a small group of customers before a wider deployment, an Atlassian spokesperson said via email. It is part of a strategy that means IT teams have to deal with fewer bespoke requests and security risks, since in each case the AI is being brought to the data inside Confluence.<\/p>\n<p>For employees, <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atlassian.com\/blog\/announcements\/rovo-remix-3p-agents-confluence\">Remix with Rovo<\/a> \u2013 Rovo is Atlassian&#8217;s AI assistant \u2013 gives them several ways to present the data that they have housed inside Confluence, the company&#8217;s team workspace for managing projects.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey can turn static docs, tables, or unstructured data into the format or workflow they need, tailored for the right audience or altitude \u2014 without leaving Confluence or opening a ticket,\u201d the spokesperson told The Register. \u201cOur data found that Confluence pages with visual elements are nearly two-times as likely to be read by a wider audience compared to pages without.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The product appears to work like Google\u2019s Notebook LM, which can also manipulate several file types to present data as a podcast, graphics, or a slide deck. However, Atlassian said Notebook LM has limits.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNotebook LM is great for multi-modal transformation, but it works in a vacuum. The key difference is workspace-native context,\u201d the spokesperson wrote. \u201cRemix works within the pages, permissions, and structures teams already use \u2014 meeting notes, PRDs, runbooks \u2014 not a separate environment you copy\/paste back from. With Notebook LM, users run the risk of creating an isolated artifact &#8211; with Remix, the output is always connected to the source content.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Notebook LM, they said, is a single-player experience, while Remix outputs live inside Confluence where teams already work together. Comments, mentions, and real-time editing are native, not bolted on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe content stays multiplayer from the start, organized and findable by the entire team,\u201d Atlassian\u2019s spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>On the agentic front, Atlassian said it has partnered with Lovable, Replit, and Gamma while promising more agent providers to come to turn data inside Confluence into software applications.<\/p>\n<p>Confluence already allows users to create artifacts such as product requirements documents that can link directly to work tracked in Jira, its project management product. These new partner agents simply compress the process of taking a product requirements document, prototype, or strategy note and turning it into an app, prototype, or presentation using AI.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s not about turning Confluence into an app factory. It&#8217;s about letting teams transform knowledge into whatever format it needs to be &#8211; with the source knowledge and the resulting experience connected and governed in one place,\u201d an Atlassian spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>The agents have no independent ability to carry out tasks without the user\u2019s permission.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey don&#8217;t silently deploy apps or make architectural decisions on their own,\u201d Atlassian\u2019s spokesperson said. \u201cThe user initiates. They might say \u2018turn this into an app\u2019 or ask what&#8217;s possible &#8211; and the agent suggests options and scaffolds a starting point. Users review and confirm outputs, but the experience goes further: teams can set up automations where partner agents proactively act on a schedule or trigger, without manual prompting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In terms of guardrails, Atlassian said its agents operate within Confluence&#8217;s existing access controls, meaning that if a user can&#8217;t see a page, the agent can&#8217;t either. Users must also review and confirm outputs before anything is published or deployed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTeams that want to go further can configure agents to act proactively: triggered by a schedule, an event, or a workflow condition. The level of autonomy is yours to dial.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In March, the company announced it would <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2026\/03\/11\/atlassian_layoffs\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">lay off about 10 percent<\/a> of its staff, cutting about 1,600 jobs to fund AI initiatives. Late last year, the Australia-based company <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2025\/11\/13\/atlassian_aws_graviton_migration\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">migrated more than 3,000 Jira and Confluence<\/a> instances to AWS Graviton processors, with Graviton 4 handling user-facing tasks, resulting in roughly 10 percent savings, lower latency, and better customer response times. \u00ae<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Atlassian is modernizing Confluence for the AI era, testing tools and agentic capabilities that give users the chance&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,61,60,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-389187","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}