--- title: "Stop counting who uses AI. Start finding who’s transforming with it." url: https://daily.dev/posts/stop-counting-who-uses-ai-start-finding-who-s-transforming-with-it--zwpa97qfe source_url: https://www.atlassian.com/blog/ai-at-work/how-to-identify-ai-superusers type: article source: "Atlassian" published: 2026-06-01T15:57:04.931Z updated: 2026-06-01T15:57:29.749Z tags: ["productivity", "atlassian"] reading_time: 9 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Stop counting who uses AI. Start finding who’s transforming with it. **[Atlassian](https://daily.dev/sources/atlassian)** · 9 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Atlassian's people team shares how they evolved their AI adoption metrics three times over 18 months — from weekly active users, to a single company-wide superuser threshold, to function-specific 90th-percentile baselines. The key insight: volume metrics hide the truth about who is actually transforming work. Research from their Teamwork Lab identified five behaviors AI superusers share (redesigning workflows, building systems for others, showing work in progress, not treating first drafts as final, appearing in unexpected roles) and three underlying traits worth hiring for: pattern-seeking pragmatism, bias for sharing, and comfort with imperfection. The recommendation is to replace WAU reporting with function-specific percentile metrics and to hire for behaviors rather than tool fluency. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [You don’t need a team of AI experts. You just need one.](https://daily.dev/posts/you-don-t-need-a-team-of-ai-experts-you-just-need-one--mbqfsr3pq) · Atlassian · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [AI adoption isn’t the same as AI usage](https://daily.dev/posts/ai-adoption-isn-t-the-same-as-ai-usage-o2opyash1) · The New Stack · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [From tool to teammate: How one Atlassian team made AI a real coworker](https://daily.dev/posts/from-tool-to-teammate-how-one-atlassian-team-made-ai-a-real-coworker-gzq7y8tpr) · Atlassian · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#productivity](https://daily.dev/tags/productivity), [#atlassian](https://daily.dev/tags/atlassian) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/stop-counting-who-uses-ai-start-finding-who-s-transforming-with-it--zwpa97qfe)