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Tamar Yehoshua says about 95% of what can be done in Atlassian's user interface can also be done through MCP or CLI.
“We've gotten to the point where 95% of everything you can do in the UI, you can do through MCP or SCLI so that you can access that.”
Atlassian's MCP and CLI interfaces expose over 500 tools to agents.
“our MCP and CLIs have over 500 tools from Atlassian that we expose to the agents.”
Atlassian's teamwork graph is a per-customer context graph that builds up as the customer uses Atlassian tools.
“We have something called the teamwork graph, so the teamwork graph is the context graph that we build for each customer, for their organization, and just by using our tools, it builds your graph.”
Atlassian used the teamwork graph in its products before the AI era and significantly increased investment as AI grew.
“it's something that we've had actually before AI, we were using, uh, in our products, and then as AI became more prevalent, we have significantly increased our investment in the teamwork graph.”
Atlassian's teamwork graph contains over 200 billion entities with links between them.
“our teamwork graph has over 200 billion, uh, entities in it and there are links between it.”
In Atlassian's A/B tests, coding agents using the teamwork graph showed 44% higher quality and 48% lower token usage than with MCP alone.
“Increased by forty four, and very importantly, the token usage went down by forty eight.”
Atlassian offers a product called Guard in its enterprise offering that adds a data sensitivity layer with rules about certain types of data.
“We have a product called Guard in our enterprise offering that does a whole data sensitivity layer.”
Atlassian's products run millions of workflow automations every month.
“We run millions of automations every month and they're automations like when a bug comes in of this type, then do this with it.”
Mercedes-Benz has used the Atlassian suite for over a decade.
“Mercedes-Benz has been a customer of the Atlassian suite for over a decade.”
A Rovo agent built by Mercedes-Benz that triages Jira bug tickets reduced engineers' manual triage work by 85%.
“So that triaging agent reduced the manual work for engineers to triage the bugs by eighty five.”
An Atlassian team working on Confluence slides compared Figma designs against code to find differences.
“They took the designs from Figma and then the code and said, where are the deltas between the designs and the code?”
Using Figma's MCP and coding agents, the Confluence slides team fixed fourteen design-to-code bugs in an hour, which Yehoshua says would have taken days.
“So they fixed fourteen bugs in an hour, which it would have taken days.”
Confluence launched Remix with Rovo, which lets users highlight text on a page and remix it into a new format.
“So Confluence launched, uh, Remix with Rovo, where you can take on a page, you can highlight some text and use our Rovo AI to remix it into a new format.”
Atlassian acquired DX, a company that measures AI adoption in engineering teams, in the fall before this conversation.
“We also have a product called DX. We acquired them last fall and they measure um, AI adoption in engineering teams”
Yehoshua's team at Atlassian also runs corporate development and Atlassian Ventures.
“my team also runs, uh, Corp Dev and Atlassian Ventures.”
Yehoshua says Atlassian has 370,000 customers and is used by 85 of the Fortune 500, with some running their most critical workflows on it.
“we have 370,000 customers. We, um, are in eighty five of the Fortune 500 people run, uh, their their tier zero workflows on Atlassian.”
Yehoshua says that before AI, roughly 20% of the software development lifecycle was spent coding.
“Pre AI, uh, if you think of the the software development life cycle, about approximately twenty of your time was spent coding”
Atlassian launched an AI planner that turns a prompt into a spec, a technical document and work items before coding begins.
“we just launched what we call the AI planner, so the AI planner is, uh, is what you would do to identify what goes into the coding agent.”
Atlassian's AI reviewer uses language models plus the context of a customer's previous incidents documented in Jira to review generated code.
“we have the AI reviewer, which uses um, LLMs again, but we have the context of all of your previous incidents.”
Atlassian's AI SRE looks at past production issues and incidents as code is deployed.
“the AI SRE will look at what are the issues and the incidents that you may have had previously in production.”
Atlassian built a website, teamwork graph dot com, where users can log in and visualize their own teamwork graph.
“we made a website called Teamwork graph dot com so that people could visualize it.”
Atlassian CEO Mike Cannon-Brooks became enthusiastic about OpenClaw and built agents to run his personal life, and he told the executive team to try it.
“our CEO, Mike Cannon-Brooks, uh, when OpenClaw came out, got super pilled on OpenClaw and was like building, uh, agents to run his personal life and still does.”
Atlassian holds AI Builders Week once a quarter, pausing normal product and design work for training and a project.
“once a quarter, we take a week out of everything that everyone's doing in product and design, and we, um, we train them on a subject.”
Yehoshua says 70% of projects built during Atlassian's AI Builders Week continue to be used afterward.
“70% of what's built during Builders Week actually gets used later.”
Yehoshua describes Forge as Atlassian's platform for third parties to build apps on top of Atlassian products.
“for people who don't know, it's our marketplace, it's where people build apps on top of Atlassian products.”
Atlassian uses an AI gateway that routes each job to the most appropriate model based on quality, latency and cost.
“we use a gateway that then routes to the model. That's the most appropriate model for the job that takes into account quality, latency and cost.”
Atlassian's Jira, Jira Service Management and Confluence include built-in automations that call agents and run millions of times monthly.
“We run millions of automations every month”
Tamar Yehoshua says Atlassian's tests showed that coding agents using its teamwork graph produced 44% better quality and used 48% fewer tokens than using MCP alone.
“Increased by forty four, and very importantly, the token usage went down by forty eight. Because you don't have to give as much context to the model”
Tamar Yehoshua says Atlassian's teamwork graph contains over 200 billion entities with links between them.
“our teamwork graph has over 200 billion, uh, entities in it and there are links between it.”
Mercedes-Benz has been a customer of the Atlassian product suite for more than ten years, according to Tamar Yehoshua.
“Mercedes-Benz has been a customer of the Atlassian suite for over a decade.”
A Rovo agent built by Mercedes-Benz to triage Jira defect tickets reduced engineers' manual triage work by 85%, according to Tamar Yehoshua.
“So that triaging agent reduced the manual work for engineers to triage the bugs by eighty five.”
An Atlassian Confluence Slides team used Figma's MCP and coding agents to find and fix fourteen design-to-code discrepancies in an hour, work Tamar Yehoshua says would have taken days.
“So they fixed fourteen bugs in an hour, which it would have taken days.”
Tamar Yehoshua says Atlassian has 370,000 customers, including 85 of the Fortune 500.
“we have 370,000 customers. We, um, are in eighty five of the Fortune 500”
Confluence launched Remix with Rovo, which lets users highlight text on a page and use Rovo AI to turn it into a new format.
“Confluence launched Uh Remix with Rovo, where you can take on a page, you can highlight some text and use our Rovo AI to remix it into a new format.”
Atlassian acquired DX, a product that measures AI adoption and developer productivity in engineering teams, in the fall before this interview.
“We also have a product called DX. We acquired them last fall.”
Forge is Atlassian's marketplace and platform where third parties build apps on top of Atlassian products.
“forge, for people who don't know, it's our marketplace, it's where people build apps on top of Atlassian products.”
Atlassian uses an AI gateway that routes each request to the most appropriate model for quality, latency and cost instead of relying on a single model.
“we do not use one model in our products, we use a gateway that then routes to the model.”
Tamar Yehoshua says 70% of projects built during Atlassian's quarterly AI Builders Week continue to be used afterward.
“70% of what's built during Builders Week actually gets used later.”
Atlassian CEO Mike Cannon-Brooks became an enthusiastic user of OpenClaw and built agents to run his personal life, then told his executive team to try it.
“our CEO, Mike Cannon-Brooks, uh, when OpenClaw came out, got super pilled on OpenClaw and was like building, uh, agents to run his personal life and still does.”
Atlassian's enterprise offering includes a product called Guard that applies a data sensitivity layer, letting customers exclude certain data or require checks.
“We have a product called Guard in our enterprise offering that does a whole data sensitivity layer.”