The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis How to Build an AI Native Team with Mike Cannon-Brookes
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May 9, 2026 
Mike Cannon-Brookes, co-founder and CEO of Atlassian, on bringing AI into enterprise products and teams. He discusses cultural and security challenges of AI adoption. He explains embedding agentic capabilities into workflows and the Teamwork Graph's role in providing context. He predicts AI moving beyond chat into more natural product experiences by 2026.
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Learning AI Requires A Culture Of Sharing
- Enterprises need culture, sharing, and time to learn AI because nobody has a decade of internal AI deployment experience yet.
- Mike Cannon-Brookes describes internal programs, Loom videos, and shared failure stories as the mechanisms that spread skills across 13,000 employees.
Provide Enterprise Controls To Enable Adoption
- Meet enterprises where they are by building enterprise controls like data residency, private model choice, and customer managed keys.
- Mike explains some customers take six months to vet an AI platform while others enable it in a day, so provide flexible controls and onboarding speed.
Embed Agents Into Existing Workflows
- Accelerate teams by embedding agents into existing workflows instead of forcing process change.
- Example: Jira lets you assign any work item to a coding or business agent so teams get speed without re-engineering their processes.