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State of Product 2027

Faster shipping, same slow decisions

Faster shipping, same slow decisions

80% of product teams say AI helps them ship faster.
But customers aren't seeing value any sooner.

Why? 69% say decision-making hasn't sped up, even with AI. And 86% agree that as shipping gets easier, deciding what to build matters more.

AI moved the bottleneck from building to choosing.

You don't fix a decision bottleneck with more shipping capacity. You fix it with better inputs: customer evidence that's already organized, linked, and ready when the prioritization conversation starts.

Source: Atlassian, State of Product 2027. Methodology: Wakefield Research, 1,000 respondents across the US, Germany and France, surveyed August 2026.

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