Atlassian, the company behind the Jira and Confluence work tools, and OpenAI said on Tuesday, Oct. 6, that they are widening their partnership. Under the new agreement, OpenAI's GPT-6 family of models will power AI agents across Atlassian's products and Rovo, its built-in AI assistant and agents. AI agents are AI that can carry out tasks on their own, such as using apps and websites, instead of only answering questions. The deal gives Atlassian wider access to OpenAI's newest models, including GPT-6 Astra and the GPT-5.6 series. The two companies first teamed up in 2023.
Atlassian's pitch is that an AI assistant is only as useful as what it knows about your work. Teams record their goals, requirements and decisions in Jira and Confluence, and Atlassian links all of that together in what it calls the Teamwork Graph, a map of a company's people, projects, documents and decisions. In OpenAI's example, a product manager asks Rovo whether a launch is on track, and it can pull together Jira tickets, Confluence documents and related discussions to flag blockers and missed milestones.
The link also runs the other way. A connector lets ChatGPT search and work with a person's Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket and Loom content, using only what that person is already allowed to see, and Atlassian says riskier changes can be reviewed before they run. It requires a ChatGPT Team or Enterprise plan with a setting called developer mode switched on, plus any approval the company's administrators require. Codex, OpenAI's coding assistant, can pull in Jira and Confluence material while it writes code, on a paid ChatGPT plan: Plus, Pro, Business or Enterprise. Atlassian says these connections and the OpenAI models inside Rovo are available now, though the models on offer vary by plan and region.
Data handling depends on where the work happens. When Atlassian content goes to ChatGPT or Codex, the customer's own OpenAI plan and terms decide how OpenAI handles it. That is a different arrangement from the OpenAI models running inside Rovo, which Atlassian manages. Atlassian says more than 3,000 of its own developers use Codex, and OpenAI says it will keep using Jira to manage work inside the company.
The bigger step is still a plan. The companies say they are exploring ways for teams to hand Jira tasks straight to AI agents, track their progress and review the results, with people signing off along the way. Neither company has given a date for that, and neither has said what the expanded deal is worth.