Confluence Cloud

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Confluence Cloud is Atlassian's cloud-hosted team wiki where engineering, product, and business teams create documentation, meeting notes, project plans, and runbooks in one structured workspace. Connect it to Actionist and your agents can create pages and blog posts, search existing content, monitor newly published or updated pages, and push structured information directly into the right spaces — keeping your knowledge base current without anyone opening a browser tab.

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Average time saved

14 hours

per person · per month

≈ 2 workdays back

Eliminates manual work. Agents eliminate the manual work of creating pages from templates, auditing space content for freshness, labelling pages, and updating pages with new data — tasks that collectively cost documentation-heavy teams several hours each week.

Schedule

What your Confluence Cloud agent runs on autopilot

A week of scheduled jobs your Actionist agent will execute on your behalf.

28Scheduled jobs

7Agents at work

24/7Always on

Agents

Mon–Wed

Mon

Tue

Wed

10a

11a

12p

Multi-app workflows

Confluence Cloud × every other app you use

End-to-end automations that span multiple apps — each one a real business outcome.

6Workflows

7Apps spanned

~12 hrsSaved / week

5Personas served

For engineering

Featured4 apps

Sprint retrospective page auto-created at sprint close

When a Jira sprint closes, the agent creates a retrospective page in the team's Confluence space pre-filled with the sprint name, velocity, and a structured template covering what went well, what to improve, and action items. The engineering lead opens Confluence to a ready-to-edit doc instead of a blank page.

~2 hrs

Time saved for your team — every week, on autopilot

The flow

Trigger·When a sprint is closed in Jira Software Cloud

Trigger

Step 1

Jira Software Cloud

Detect sprint closed event

read

Step 2

Confluence Cloud

Search for Page or Blog Post to check if a retro page already exists

write

Step 3

Confluence Cloud

Create Page or Blog Post for the retrospective

write

Step 4

Slack

Post retro page link to #engineering channel

write

Step 5

Google Calendar

Block 30 minutes for the retrospective meeting

Result

Create Page or Blog Post for the retrospectivePost retro page link to #engineering channelBlock 30 minutes for the retrospective meeting

The win

Saved per run

25 min

Runs / week

~4×

Every sprint ends with a structured retrospective, not an empty page

Driven byOperations Agent

ROI

Savings

What your team gets back — two angles: what you stop doing manually, and what that's worth.

Without Actionist

What you do manually today

With Actionist

What your agent runs for you

Sales
25 min / week
Manual customer space setup
When a deal closes, an AE or CSM manually creates a Confluence space, copies a template, fills in the account details, and posts the link to Slack — 30 minutes per customer at deal close.
Sales Agent
0 min
Agent creates the space on deal close
When a deal is marked Closed Won, the agent creates the space, populates the kickoff page, and posts the link to #new-clients within about a minute — zero AE or CSM effort.
Marketing
20 min / week
Manual campaign brief page creation
The marketing team manually creates a Confluence brief page for each campaign launch — 15 minutes per campaign copying a template, filling in metadata, and sharing the link.
Marketing Agent
0 min
Agent creates and labels campaign pages
When a campaign is scheduled, the agent creates the brief page, labels it correctly, and posts the link to the campaign channel — documented before the first kickoff call.
Customer Support
45 min / week
Manual knowledge base maintenance
Support leads manually review help article pages weekly to check freshness, add labels, and flag stale content — 45 minutes of page browsing and note-taking each Monday.
Customer Support Agent
0 min
Agent audits and labels stale pages
The agent lists all KB pages, compares last-updated timestamps against the freshness policy, and adds needs-review labels to stale pages — without anyone opening a browser tab.
Human Resources
30 min / week
Manual new-hire onboarding page creation
HR creates a personalised Confluence onboarding page for each new hire by hand — copying the template, entering the starter's details, and linking policy docs — 20 minutes per hire.
Human Resources Agent
0 min
Agent creates personalised onboarding pages
When a new hire is confirmed in the HRIS, the agent creates and fills their onboarding page before their start date — every new employee's Confluence page is ready on day one.
Finance
40 min / week
Manual budget update on department pages
The finance team copies weekly budget figures into each department's Confluence page by hand — pulling from the spreadsheet, formatting the table, and saving — 5 minutes per department, 40 minutes total.
Finance Agent
0 min
Agent appends budget entries weekly
Every Wednesday the agent reads the finance spreadsheet and appends a formatted budget entry to each department's Confluence page — current figures visible to every team without finance team effort.
Operations
30 min / week
Manual space governance reviews
The operations manager manually checks each Confluence space monthly for activity, compares against the team register, and sends emails to owners of orphaned spaces — 2 hours per governance round.
Operations Agent
0 min
Agent runs governance checks every Monday
Every Monday the agent lists all spaces, cross-references the team register, and flags orphaned or stale spaces to the governance Slack channel — ongoing governance without an operations manager doing it by hand.
Legal
60 min / week
Manual compliance page audit
Legal reviews the Compliance space manually each week, reading page histories and comment threads to find unresolved review requests — an hour-long review that is often skipped under workload.
Legal Agent
0 min
Agent reviews and escalates open comment threads
Every Monday and Thursday the agent checks compliance and contract pages for unresolved comment threads and escalates them to the legal review queue — nothing falls through without a human page-by-page review.

+ 100s of other Confluence Cloud automations

Average time saved

25 hrs / person / month

Calculator

Calculate what your team saves

Team size

15 people

Hourly rate

$35 / hr

Hours saved / week

Hours saved / year

2,625

Annual ROI

$91,875

Based on Confluence Cloud's typical team usage — the visible tasks plus a few other automations the agent runs: ~3.5 hrs / person / week of admin work automated.

Connect

How to plug Confluence Cloud into Actionist

Pick the connection method that suits your environment.

Connect Confluence Cloud through Atlassian's standard OAuth 2.0 flow. Actionist opens the Atlassian authorisation window, you sign in and grant access to your Confluence site, and the agent is connected in under 30 seconds — no API tokens to generate or manage.

Open the Apps tab

Find Confluence Cloud in the Apps library and click Connect. OAuth is selected by default.

Authorise in Atlassian

An Atlassian sign-in window opens. Log in and select the Confluence site you want to connect. Actionist requests read and write permissions for pages and spaces.

Test the connection

Actionist runs a read-only call to confirm access. You will see your site name confirmed — you are ready.

Actions

14 actions your agent can call

Read and write operations available to your Actionist agent.

Triggers

2 events your agent can react to

Events your agent watches for, and the actions it kicks off in response.

FAQs

Questions about Confluence Cloud + Actionist

How does Actionist connect to Confluence Cloud?

Go to the Apps tab, find Confluence Cloud, and click Connect. Actionist opens an Atlassian OAuth 2.0 window — you sign in, select the Confluence site, and grant read/write permissions for pages and spaces. The handshake completes in under 30 seconds and Actionist runs a read-only test call to confirm access. No API tokens or admin credentials are required.

Which Confluence permissions does the agent need?

For read operations (Search for Page, Get Page by ID, List Pages, Get Comments) the connected account needs read permission on the relevant spaces. For write operations (Create Page, Update Page Content, Add Label, Add Comment, Archive Page) the account needs the Add Pages and Edit Pages space permissions. The OAuth flow requests these scopes together. If your Confluence site uses custom permission schemes, have your Confluence admin confirm the connected user has contributor access to the spaces the agent will manage.

Can Actionist connect to Confluence Server or Data Center, not just Cloud?

The Confluence Cloud integration connects to Atlassian cloud-hosted instances (atlassian.net URLs). If your team uses a self-hosted Confluence Server or Data Center instance, that requires a separate connector. The cloud version is the most common deployment for teams on current Atlassian plans. If you are unsure which version you have, check your Confluence URL — cloud instances include 'atlassian.net'.

How quickly does Actionist detect a new Confluence page?

The New Page or Blog Post trigger polls Confluence within about a minute. It is not an instant webhook — Actionist checks for new content on a regular polling cadence, so the agent will react to a new page within about a minute of it being saved. For use cases where sub-minute latency matters, the agent is most effective as a scheduled task that runs at a defined time rather than as a near-instant reaction.

Can Actionist create pages in any space, or only spaces I specify?

The agent can create pages in any Confluence space that the connected OAuth account has contributor access to. When you set up a scheduled task or triggered action, you specify the target space key and optionally a parent page ID. If you want the agent to default to a particular space without requiring configuration each time, you can include the space key in the agent's instructions for that task.

What happens if I ask the agent to update a page that does not exist yet?

The Update Page Content action requires an existing page ID. If you want idempotent behaviour — create the page if it does not exist, update it if it does — use Find or Create Page first, which returns the page ID regardless of whether it existed before. The agent can be instructed to use the result of Find or Create Page as the input for a subsequent update in the same task.

Can Actionist work across multiple Confluence spaces in one task?

Yes. A single agent task can interact with multiple spaces — for example, creating a page in the Engineering space and then moving it to the Product space when approved, or reading pages from the Compliance space and writing a summary to the Operations space. Each action specifies its own space key, so multi-space workflows are fully supported within one agent run.

Does archiving a Confluence page through Actionist delete it?

No. Archive Page moves the page to an archived state where it is hidden from default search results and the active space view, but the content, version history, and all comments are fully preserved. Anyone who navigates directly to the page URL or filters for archived content can still access it. If you need to permanently delete a page, that requires a manual action by a Confluence administrator — Actionist does not support permanent deletion to prevent accidental data loss.