Great teams move quickly, and critical decisions happen where conversations flow naturally.
Decisions live in Slack: the thread where engineering explains a trade-off, the conversation where a launch go/no-go call gets made, the risk or bug someone flags before it makes its way into the project plan or Jira board, or the quick exchange that explains why a milestone changed.
Slack is great at helping teams move quickly. But as conversations multiply across channels and threads, that context can become difficult to find again, especially for people who weren’t part of the original conversation.
The Teamwork Graph connector for Slack brings that conversational context into Rovo. With Slack connected, Rovo Search, Chat, and Agents can use Slack alongside knowledge from Jira, Confluence, and other connected apps.
Instead of remembering where something was discussed, you can start with what you need to know.
Picture this: you’re working on Project Meridian, a major product launch. The Project Meridian Launch Plan captures key decisions, milestones, workstreams, owners, and known risks. But since the plan was written, teams have continued working through launch details in Slack.
With Rovo, you can connect those pieces of context. Here are 4 ways:
1. Quickly understand the decision behind the plan
The Project Meridian Launch Plan says the enterprise rollout will happen after the self-serve launch. But why did the team make that decision?
Ask Rovo Search or Chat:
What trade-offs did we discuss to decide on moving the enterprise rollout for Project Meridian?
Rovo helps connect what was captured in the plan with the conversations that explain why.
2. Automatically monitor risks– is your launch still on track?
Next, zoom out from a single decision to the full launch.
Launch plans capture Project Meridian’s milestones and risks. Slack reveals actual velocity and emerging roadblocks. You can create a custom Rovo Agent with Slack tools to follow conversations and compare live signals against the timeline.
You can setup your agent to run analysis daily and post directly to an updates channel:
Compare the Project Meridian Launch Plan with the last 3 days of Slack. What’s changed, what’s at risk, and what hasn’t made it into the plan yet?
3. Capture, assign, and execute work in Jira from Slack
When a Slack conversation surfaces work that needs follow-up, you can turn it into Jira work without leaving Slack—keeping the discussion and next steps connected.
Once you’ve spotted a launch risk, you can act on it right from Slack. Tag @Jira in a Slack thread to turn the conversation into a Jira work item, assign it, and keep the context that led to it.
For example, if the team uncovers a latency issue during a launch discussion:
@Jira create a High-priority bug for the latency issue discussed above in this thread and assign it to the Jira Coding Agent
Reprioritize and reassign without leaving Slack:
@Jira update PIDEV-894 to Critical and assign to Elizabeth Lee
Hand off work directly to a teammate or coding agent:
@Jira create a task for Eric Zheng and assign it to the Jira Coding Agent
This creates a direct pipeline from conversation to shipped code, with no one opening Jira in between. Instead of copying details into Jira or switching between tools, the team can move from conversation to action while the context is still fresh.
4. Coordinate incident response with a Rovo Agent in Slack
Connected agents do more than search by actively assisting during time-critical workflows. When combined with Jira Service Management (JSM) and Teamwork Graph, Rovo helps teams accelerate incident triage and resolution right inside Slack.
In this example, when a high-severity incident is declared in Jira Service Management, an automation rule automatically creates a dedicated incident channel in Slack
It also loops in the Rovo agent, which:
Spins up an instant investigation, pulling telemetry and change history across Atlassian and 3rd party tools via Teamwork Graph (such as GitHub, JSM, and Confluence).
Proposes root-cause hypotheses with evidence: Instead of sifting through logs manually, the team gets an immediate, evidence-backed hypothesis pinpointing the problematic pull request or deployment.
Supports human-in-the-loop deep dives: Responders can ask follow-up questions to validate timing correlation, code diffs, and rule out concurrent changes.
Generates rollback and mitigation steps: Rovo provides structured mitigation and verification plans so responders can execute fixes and update incident status without switching tools.
Ask Rovo in your incident’s Slack channel:
@Rovo give me more reasons why PR-18 is the only reason for this incident.
@Rovo can you help create a mitigation plan for this incident?
After the issue is Resolved, you can still ask:
@Rovo Post a summary of what happened, the resolution, and any follow-up actions.
From scattered conversations to connected teamwork
Jira tells you what work is being tracked.
Confluence captures plans, documentation, and durable knowledge.
Slack captures much of the decision-making factors around the work.
The challenge appears in the spaces between them. A risk might first surface in Slack. It might eventually become a Jira issue. A decision about that risk might change a milestone in the launch plan. And a week later, someone trying to understand why the milestone moved has to reconstruct that chain across three different systems.
Teamwork Graph helps connect that context so Rovo can help teams understand the work as a whole.
Atlassian experience
How connected Slack context helps
Rovo Search
Find relevant Slack messages, threads, and channels alongside knowledge from Atlassian and other connected apps.
Rovo Chat
Ask questions that bring together Slack conversations and other company knowledge to understand decisions, risks, plans, and project context.
Rovo Agents
Use Slack context together with Jira, Confluence, and other knowledge, then take actions such as reading channels, sending updates, scheduling messages, or setting up collaboration spaces.
Rovo in Slack
Interact with Rovo and Jira directly in Slack to summarize threads, query company knowledge across Jira and Confluence, and turn conversations into Jira work without leaving the channel.
Slack knowledge stays in Slack
For new Teamwork Graph connector for Slack connections made after Oct 2, 2025, Rovo retrieves relevant Slack content in real-time. In other words, search happens directly through Slack when it is needed, rather than copying and indexing Slack messages in Atlassian.
Access also respects the permissions users already have in Slack. Team members may be asked to connect their Slack account to Atlassian so Rovo can make sure the Slack results they receive are content they’re allowed to access.
The connector makes Slack messages in public and private channels, direct messages, and channels available to Rovo.
Get started
An organization admin can connect Slack from Atlassian Administration. Then, your team members can start bringing conversational context into the way they use Rovo.
Your team shouldn’t have to remember where knowledge lives before they can put it to work.
