OpenAI and Atlassian are deepening a partnership that began in 2023, with OpenAI's frontier models now set to power AI agents across Atlassian's platform and Rovo. The key addition is the Teamwork Graph, Atlassian's enterprise context layer, which connects people, projects, documents, and decisions. By grounding GPT-6 Astra and GPT-5.6 series models in that context, the companies aim to turn scattered enterprise knowledge into actionable work.
Atlassian is also expanding its internal use of OpenAI tools: more than 3,000 developers use Codex across terminals, IDEs, and code review, and plugins now surface Jira work items, Confluence content, and people directly in ChatGPT and Codex prompts. The companies cite an example of a product manager asking Rovo whether a launch is on track, with the model pulling from tickets and documents to flag blockers and recommend next steps.
Looking ahead, the two companies are exploring deeper Jira integrations that would let teams assign work to AI agents, track progress, and review results. Combined with Atlassian's DX platform for measuring developer productivity, this could give engineering leaders a way to assess AI's impact on cycle time and developer experience. The announcement comes from OpenAI, so it reflects the vendor's perspective on the partnership's benefits.