Meet the Winners of Codegeist 2025: Atlassian Williams Racing Edition

The checkered flag is out: Announcing the hackathon podium placements 🏁

After months of building, testing, and tuning, Codegeist 2025: Atlassian Williams Racing Edition has crossed the finish line and what a race it has been.

Codegeist is Atlassian’s annual hackathon where developers from around the world harness their creativity on Forge, Atlassian’s app development platform. By extending products like Jira, Confluence, Jira Service Management, Bitbucket, and Compass with custom apps and integrations, participants reimagine how teams plan, track, and deliver work.

For Codegeist 2025: Atlassian Williams Racing Edition, the racing partnership set the stage—but the real story was how developers used it as fuel for very different kinds of innovation. Some teams fully embraced the Formula 1 theme by riffing on pit stops, telemetry, and race strategy to build apps that make work feel faster, more coordinated, and more data‑driven. Others stayed grounded in everyday business reality: focusing on the (sometimes) unglamorous but critical workflows that power product development, operations, and collaboration across industries.

Participants built Forge apps that integrated with at least one Atlassian product or platform capability, in one of three categories:

• Apps for Software Teams – Helping developers and engineers work like a well‑tuned delivery engine: from accelerating code reviews and deployments to keeping issues on track and teams aligned.
• Apps for Business Teams – Serving teams like marketing, sales, HR, finance, support, and legal with better visibility, coordination, and decision‑making.
• Apps for Specialized Industries – Bringing Atlassian into domains such as healthcare, banking, automotive, manufacturing, logistics, and more, with solutions tailored to real‑world, industry‑specific challenges.

On top of the core categories, we introduced three bonus tracks that highlight how and where apps are built: Best Runs on Atlassian Apps, for projects that meet the Runs on Atlassian program requirements; Best Rovo Apps, for projects that use Forge rovo:agent and action modules to configure agents and enable them to perform specific tasks; and Best Apps Built Using Rovo Dev, for projects where Rovo Dev played a meaningful role in how the app was designed, built, or shipped.

Across all of these tracks, participants delivered an amazing variety of solutions using cutting edge capabilities. AI featured prominently, powering everything from visual diagnostic tools to predictive insights, helping teams move faster and make better decisions.

Now, let’s meet the winners who took the podium in each category…

Category winners 🏆

This year’s grand prizes recognized standout apps in three core categories: Software Teams, Business Teams, and Specialized Industries.

Each 1st place winner receives $15,000 USD, 2 TEAM 2026 tickets, Atlas Camp recognition, and Atlassian Williams Racing swag, with 2nd and 3rd places earning cash prizes and featured coverage.

🥇 1st Place — Software Teams

Secure Notes for Jira

Secure Notes for Jira helps software teams capture sensitive context right where work lives, without sacrificing governance or speed. Instead of scattering credentials, incident details, or internal runbook notes across disparate tools, teams can keep everything in Jira with the right access controls and auditability built in. It’s the equivalent of giving your pit crew a single, secure console—no more scrambling for the data you need when every second counts.

🥇 1st Place — Business Teams

Frank.

Frank is built for teams who live in Atlassian. It keeps People and HR info on the pit wall: profiles, teams, and documents in Jira and Confluence, with HR-safe permissions so sensitive info stays locked down. Onboarding runs like a clean race plan, turning Confluence docs into tasks automatically. And when questions come in, Frank answers in Rovo with permission-aware info and links.

🥇 1st Place — Specialized Industries

FleetOps | Smart incident reporting for fleet operations

FleetOps translates the urgency of track‑side decision‑making to the world of fleet operations. By streamlining incident reporting, capturing structured data, and anchoring everything to Atlassian tools, FleetOps helps distributed teams respond like a synchronized pit crew—logging events quickly, coordinating stakeholders, and learning from every incident to drive continuous improvement.

🥈 2nd Place — Software Teams

Sherlock Sync — Decode your code, illuminate your docs

Sherlock Sync turns hidden tribal knowledge in codebases into discoverable, living documentation. For software teams, that means fewer blind corners when onboarding to a service or debugging a critical issue. By linking code and docs more intelligently, it gives developers a clearer racing line through complex systems.

🥈 2nd Place — Business Teams

Sidekick4All — Connecting teams across Jira and calendars

Sidekick4All bridges the gap between Jira and calendars so cross‑functional teams can actually see how work and time line up. It reduces friction in coordination—lining up standups, releases, and key milestones—so teams can spend less time jockeying schedules and more time executing.

🥈 2nd Place — Specialized Industries

YardMaster

YardMaster brings structure and visibility to complex yard and logistics operations. Think of it as a race strategist for physical assets—helping teams orchestrate movements, reduce idle time, and keep operations flowing smoothly even when conditions change.

🥉 3rd Place — Software Teams

AI Backlog for Jira

AI Backlog for Jira uses AI to help teams prioritize and refine issues, turning an overwhelming queue into a clear race plan. By suggesting groupings, next steps, and focus areas, it helps product and engineering teams keep their roadmap aligned with the fastest path to value.

🥉 3rd Place — Business Teams

File Field Cloud

File Field Cloud gives business teams a more flexible, reliable way to manage files directly in Jira. By reducing friction around attachments and document context, it helps teams keep their “garage” organized—everything in its place and ready when the next task hits the board.

🥉 3rd Place — Specialized Industries

Compliant Workflows for Jira

Compliant Workflows for Jira brings guardrails and governance into everyday workflows. For regulated or highly audited industries, it’s like ensuring every lap meets spec—without slowing the team down. By embedding compliance into Jira, teams can move fast and stay within the rules.

Bonus Prizes: Best Runs on Atlassian 🏎️

The Best Runs on Atlassian prizes celebrate apps that keep data fully on Atlassian by default—minimizing external egress and relying on Forge‑hosted storage—while still delivering high‑impact experiences. These apps embody the idea of running “on rails”: secure, performant, and deeply integrated with where work happens.

Winners:

1. Graph Goose — Your Teamwork Graph mapped to the real world!
2. Asset QR Manager
3. Immutable Ledger for Jira: Verifiable Audit
4. Manufacturing 3d visualizer
5. PitStop — Comment Manager for Your Team that Runs on Atlassian
6. File Field Cloud

Across these projects, we saw a clear pattern: when apps stay close to Atlassian’s platform, teams get simpler operations, better performance, and fewer operational risks without compromising on capability.

Bonus Prizes: Best Rovo Apps 🤖

Rovo is becoming a central “race engineer” across Atlassian’s ecosystem, and this year’s Best Rovo Apps showed what’s possible when AI is woven into the flow of work.

Winners:

1. AI Backlog for Jira (also 3rd Place — Software Teams)
2. FleetOps | Smart incident reporting for fleet operations (also 1st Place — Specialized Industries)
3. Frank. (also 1st Place — Business Teams)
4. Sidekick4All — Connecting Teams Across Jira and Calendars (also 2nd Place — Business Teams)
5. Smart Data Generator for Jira
6. YardMaster (also 2nd Place — Specialized Industries)

Collectively, these apps showed us how Rovo can help teams see around corners, anticipating issues, suggesting next steps, and turning raw data into actionable insight.

Bonus Prizes: Best Rovo Dev 🧑‍💻

The Best Rovo Dev category highlights apps that put Rovo Dev in the driver’s seat of the software development lifecycle—accelerating planning, coding, reviews, and release workflows.

Winners:

1. Sync for Confluence
2. Risk Manager
3. EpicStory
4. PitstopX
5. Rovo Autonomous Team Orchestrator
6. DevOps Commander

Across these entries, we saw Rovo Dev used not just as a coding assistant, but as an orchestrator of entire workflows—helping teams automate repetitive steps and keep the whole development “car” running smoothly from planning to production.

A final THANK YOU!

To everyone who participated in Codegeist 2025: Atlassian Williams Racing Edition—thank you for your creativity, ambition, and willingness to push the limits of what’s possible on Atlassian’s platform.

Whether you took home a prize or simply shipped something you’re proud of, you’ve contributed to a growing ecosystem that helps teams everywhere work smarter and move faster.

We’re already thinking about what’s next. Until the next green flag drops, keep experimenting, keep building, and keep shaping the future of teamwork.