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Reframe Expert Round-up: The AI trust paradox

Reframe Expert Round-ups bring together some of the leading voices reshaping agency and consulting in the age of AI. Each month we tackle one of the industry’s most charged questions and ask our guest experts to give their honest, unfiltered takes. We aren’t here to give you identical, PR-polished, best practice answers. We’re here to help you navigate the messy middle – including the good, the bad and the ugly.

Employee Performance Review Template: 15 for Managers

Measuring success is a key piece to leading an effective team. After all, you can't improve until you know what skills you need to build. An employee performance review is one of the best ways to identify what's working, and what can be improved. This is also a great opportunity to communicate how a team member is pacing against organizational goals and personal objectives. You can measure success in different ways, from peer reviews to self reviews and different performance evaluations in between.

Acceleration Drift: Why your people are faster and your company isn't

Ask anyone on your team how AI is going and you will hear some version of the same sentence: “What used to take me a week now takes an hour.” It is the kind of thing that makes a leader feel the bet is paying off. The work really is faster, and the proof shows up every month on the token bill. People are not imagining the speed. A recent METR study of experienced developers found they believed AI had made them about twenty percent faster. Anecdotally, I see people moving much faster.

Kraken: From knowledge to action with Rovo Skills | Team '26 | Atlassian

Rovo Skills, agents, and automation can turn hours of manual work into seconds and Kraken's 30,000 monthly executions prove it's already working. In this Team '26 session, Atlassian and Kraken show how any team can encode their custom workflows into reusable Rovo Skills, compose them into agents, and automate them end-to-end — all powered by the Atlassian Teamwork Graph. From security question resolution dropping from 4 hours to 12 minutes, to faster performance review cycles, see what's possible when AI learns how your team actually works.

New Templates in Miroverse: May 2026

In May 2026, our community published 100 new templates to Miroverse. New workflows now available to you and your teams include strategic planning frameworks and AI-first startup canvases, team rituals, reconciliation action planning tools, and a wave of AI-powered ideation resources. Below, you’ll find the top templates and creators from May 2026 — plus an AI workflow spotlight and our favorite social post of the month.

Cursor is now connected to Jira | Atlassian

Cursor is now connected to Jira. Open a work item, choose Cursor from the Agents dropdown, and it automatically infers the right repository - no manual setup needed. Cursor reads the ticket context, makes the code changes, and raises a pull request in your connected repo, fully linked back to Jira. No terminal, no context switching. Watch to see how your Jira tickets can drive your code automatically.

Secure Messaging App: The Most Trusted Apps for Privacy & Security in 2026

In 2026, choosing a secure messaging app is no longer optional, it is essential for protecting personal conversations, business communication, and sensitive data from breaches, surveillance, and unauthorized access. This guide explains what makes a messaging app truly secure, compares personal and enterprise-grade solutions, and helps you choose the right platform based on your needs, whether for private chats, business compliance, or regulated industry use.

What Is an AI Agent for HR? A Practical Guide for Modern HR Teams

HR teams are under pressure to support employees faster without turning every question, request, or approval into manual work. Employees want quick answers about leave, payroll, benefits, onboarding, policies, documents, and workplace processes. Managers need guidance on approvals, transfers, onboarding tasks, and employee requests. HR teams, meanwhile, are expected to keep every answer accurate, every workflow compliant, and every sensitive issue routed to the right person.