🚀 Rovo Chat July 2025 Updates: File Uploads, Flawless Formatting, and Smarter Context

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Hi everyone! Howard Li here with some sweet updates to Rovo Chat, built from your feedback to make your workday smoother, smarter, and more connected.

I’m sharing three of my favorite updates here, but be sure to check out the full update in our recent blog.

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1. File Uploads: Docs have entered the chat

You can now upload 40+ different file types directly into Rovo Chat. That includes PDFs, spreadsheets, Google Docs, meeting notes, technical specs, etc. All the documentation and artifacts you’re working with and updating.

What’s really cool about this is that it isn’t just a “drop a file and move on” situation. Rovo reads, understands, and acts on what you’ve uploaded.

For example: 

• Upload a customer feedback document and ask Rovo to highlight recurring themes, pain points, or quotes.

• Drop in a massive Excel spreadsheet, and have Rovo visualize key trends or flag data anomalies.

• Share a product requirements doc and ask Rovo to summarize it, or generate Jira tickets for each task.

• Input a compliance checklist and have Rovo compare it to your project status or spot missing steps.

Also, our pal Rovo actually links those docs back to your existing ecosystem, tying in insights to related Jira issues, Confluence pages, or projects already in flight. It uses your organization’s knowledge graph to place each file in context, so you’re not just getting answers, you’re getting relevant next steps.

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2. Formatting 4 ever

One of the most annoying things about the most basic function of copy/paste is when the formatting gets hosed. This happens a lot when you’re bringing things over from other AI tools. Tables break, bullets disappear, and bold text is italic now? Madness.

With Rovo Chat, we built a cleaner way to copy and paste.

Where bullets stayed perfectly aligned, headings were right-sized, and that one sentence didn’t sail off into the right margin.

Every response is built to travel well, so wherever you paste, it shows up exactly how you need it.

This means you can:

Like for real, no matter where.

Google Docs for the team, emails to stakeholders, publishing Confluence pages, slide decks, Slack, Teams, etc. 

Less clean up gives you more time for creativity (or coffee.)

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3. Teamwork Graph understands you

Rovo Chat doesn’t just know “things,” it knows your work.

Atlassian’s Teamwork Graph gets the “big picture”. That means Rovo pulls together the full story behind your projects, teammates, files, and goals and can help you act on it. It’s like having a second brain. 

Ask Rovo questions like:

• “What’s blocking the launch team this week?”

• “Summarize feedback on our Q3 planning doc.”

• “What decisions came out of the last design sync?”

• “Who owns the onboarding project, and what’s next?”

Rovo connects the dots across Jira, Confluence, Slack threads, Google Docs, and more. Plus it tailors responses to your role. So I’m not getting the same answer as a marketer even if we’re aligned to the same project.

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What’s your experience with the new features?

If you haven’t already, give the new Rovo Chat features a go and tell us what you think. We want it all, the wins, the surprises, and especially the “where has this been all my life” moments. Okay yes and complaints. Those help us too. 

[Sami Shaik]

@Howard Li 

Quick question - this is a fantastic update! Can Rovo AI read or understand the contents of uploaded files (e.g., PDFs, Word docs) or files coming from connected apps like Google Drive or Microsoft 365? Would love to know if that’s in the roadmap!

[Howard Li]

@Sami Shaik , Yes, Rovo understands the content of uploaded files such as PDFs, Word docs and images, as well as files from Google Drive and Microsoft Sharepoint if the 3P connectors have been set up for those data sources. You can simply copy and paste in a link in Rovo Chat and start asking questions.

[Sami Shaik]

@Howard Li 

Thank you for the clarification - that’s really helpful!

Just to confirm further:

If I ask Rovo a question like “What’s the total amount spent on project Phoenix last quarter?”, and the relevant data is inside a PDF or Excel file stored in a connected 3P source (like Google Drive or SharePoint) 

➡️ Will Rovo be able to automatically search, understand, and respond with the answer directly from that document, even if I don’t upload it or paste the file link manually in the chat, as long as the connector is set up?

Essentially, does Rovo proactively search across connected files for answers based on the query context, or does it need some kind of file reference/prompt from the user?

Appreciate your insights - this is game-changing if fully autonomous! 

[Howard Li]

@Sami Shaik , yes, Rovo chat is able to search across both Atlassian apps and connected 3P data sources such as Google doc and Sharepoint.

[Sami Shaik]

@Howard Li 

Thanks for confirming - that’s great to hear!

Just to clarify one last detail:

If the relevant Google Doc or SharePoint file isn’t referenced or linked in the Rovo Chat conversation, will Rovo automatically search through all connected documents to find the answer to a question (e.g. about budget or project status), or does it require the user to at least provide a link or mention a file name for Rovo to look into?

Trying to understand how “proactive” Rovo is when it comes to searching across large repositories of 3P data.

Thanks again for your time!

[Sasha Collecutt]

I would love to try out the file upload option, but I don't see it (yes, I watched the video to check I know where to find the option). I checked app updates, but there's no info about Rovo releases there. Is there something I/we need to do to activate this feature? Or is it still rolling out?

Update: I see the file upload option is actually available, just not when testing an agent. Question resolved, though it would be nice to be able to upload files in testing mode.