Tempo Software Inc. has launched Workforce Intelligence, an app on the Atlassian Marketplace that links a team's artificial intelligence usage — and what that usage costs — to the specific Jira issues the work was done on, according to SiliconANGLE.
The idea is straightforward, even if the plumbing isn't. Most companies buying AI tools today can see a bill at the end of the month, but they can't easily see what the money bought. A lump sum arrives from a vendor, and the spending sits in a category labeled something like "AI tools" with no connection to the actual work it supported.
Jira, Atlassian's issue-tracking software, is where a great many software teams already record that work: every bug, feature and task gets its own ticket. By attaching AI cost data to those individual tickets, Tempo is proposing that AI spending be measured the same way teams already measure time and effort — at the level of the job being done rather than the department doing it.
Tempo is a longtime maker of time-tracking and resource-planning tools that plug into Atlassian's products, so the Atlassian Marketplace distribution puts Workforce Intelligence in front of teams already inside that ecosystem.
The available reporting on the launch is thin on specifics. SiliconANGLE's item describes what the app connects — AI usage and cost to individual Jira issues — but the source material here does not include pricing, which AI tools or models it can meter, availability dates, or any customer results.
It matters because businesses are now spending real money on AI without a common way to prove which projects it actually helped, and tying that spend to work items is one of the first concrete attempts to answer that question.