Refined Sites for Confluence

The AI-powered experience layer for Confluence

Turn complex spaces into simplified, audience-aware knowledge hubs — public or private.

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Refined Sites for Confluence

Confluence stores knowledge. Refined makes it usable at scale.

Refined introduces structured entry points, guided navigation, branded themes, and governed publishing on top of Confluence — organizing complexity into simplified knowledge experiences that make information easy to access.

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Outcomes

Real outcomes from structured knowledge

When knowledge is clear, trusted, and easy to navigate, teams rely on it — and support teams feel the difference.

Higher engagement with the knowledge you already have

Clear navigation and structured entry points help employees, customers, and partners actually use knowledge, not just store it.

Fewer tickets, more self-service

Guide users to answers before they submit requests, reducing repetitive support work.

Built-in trust in a single source of truth

Branded, curated sites turn scattered documentation into a reliable source of truth.

Wider adoption beyond your technical power users

Deliver knowledge in an experience that makes sense for everyday users, not just Confluence power users.

capabilities

Built to deliver knowledge at scale

Structured multi-site, multi-audience architecture

Create multiple branded sites from a single Confluence instance. Replace flat space trees with curated landing pages and website-like navigation that scale across departments, regions, and entities.

Audience-aware publishing

Deliver role-, region-, or entity-based views without duplicating content. Share knowledge internally or externally while maintaining one controlled source of truth.

Branded, no-code site building

Build professional knowledge hubs with reusable layouts and centralized theming — no custom development required. Maintain brand consistency across every site.

Analytics and insight

Understand how knowledge is used. Identify gaps in discovery. Optimize structure over time with engagement and usage insights built for continuous improvement.

Enterprise-ready

Consistent, controlled experiences

As Confluence environments expand across teams and regions, clarity becomes operational. Refined maintains consistent navigation, controlled publishing, and centralized theming through a scalable multi-site architecture — so structure holds as complexity expands.

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design-approved

Branded experiences users trust

Refined transforms Confluence into clear, branded experiences that reflect your organization — not a generic interface. Consistent design, trusted layouts, and recognizable navigation help users engage with confidence across every site.

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AI-equipped

Smarter AI

AI retrieves content. Structure determines relevance. Refined organizes knowledge into clear containers within a multi-site architecture — improving search quality, summaries, and discovery so users get trusted answers instead of noise.

Features

Built to structure. Designed to scale.

Everything you need to turn Confluence into a structured, branded knowledge hub your audiences actually use.

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Custom home and landing pages

Design audience-ready home and landing pages with an intuitive builder — or start fast with customizable templates.

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Custom themes

Apply your brand site-wide. Make Confluence feel like a destination your users trust and recognize.

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Drop-down navigation menu

Replace cluttered space trees with structured drop-down navigation that guides every user to the right content.

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View permissions

Show every user only what's relevant to them. Personalize page sections by role, team, or group — no extra sites needed.

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Space & project permissions

Control who sees what. Segment your site by audience and keep sensitive knowledge in the right hands.

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Site access permissions

Set your site to public, private, or support-only — and match access exactly to who you're serving.

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Data residency

Choose where your data lives. Host in the US or EU to meet your compliance and governance requirements.

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Site & Refined admins

Give trusted colleagues admin access — no Atlassian admin rights required. Keep governance without the bottlenecks.

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Custom domains

Publish on your own domain. Reinforce trust and brand recognition from the very first click.

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Announcement banners

Surface critical updates where users can't miss them. Eye-catching banners keep your whole audience in the loop.

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Events

Promote webinars, summits, and company moments with branded event pages that live right inside your site.

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Page & feedback controls

Collect user feedback and control how Confluence pages appear — authors, read time, TOC, and more.

Refined cleans out all this noise and condenses it into something that is really beautiful.
We’ve heard way more, ‘Oh, I found this on your documentation, I have questions,’ versus just a question without taking the time to look for the answer.
We constantly heard, ‘This is amazing. Thank you so much for moving to this type of a system.’
The sentiment from upper management was that this was so successful, we are making this a staple of what we're doing.
Refined is simply the best and a solid base if you want to improve your Confluence platform.
knowledge solutions

One product. Multiple knowledge solutions.

Refined Sites for Confluence powers structured knowledge across use cases.

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Intranets

Create structured, branded employee front doors that scale across teams, regions, and business units.

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Documentation Sites

Publish documentation spaces with structured, searchable sites built for usability and trust.

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Knowledge Bases

Improve clarity and adoption across growing Confluence environments.

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Partner Portals

Provide segmented service and knowledge hubs for resellers and external collaborators.

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Why Refined

Built for scale — beyond native Confluence

Refined Sites for Confluence extends Atlassian where it matters most: structure, governance, and the user experience.

Native Confluence
  • Flat space navigation
  • Limited audience targeting
  • Generic UI
Page Builders
  • Page-level customization
  • Confluence-only focus
  • Design flexibility without structure
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Refined Sites
  • Page-level customization
  • Confluence-only focus
  • Design flexibility without structure
Editions

Right-sized for your needs

Refined Sites is available in editions designed to support growing complexity.

Standard

Structured sites, audience-aware publishing, and branded navigation built for scaling teams.

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Advanced

Structured sites, audience-aware publishing, and branded navigation built for scaling teams.

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How leading teams deliver knowledge at scale

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"The whole idea was to try and keep it as simple as possible in terms of not having to worry about managing content."
– Andrew Wyatt, Chief Growth Officer, Sapio Sciences
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"We needed microsites that were customizable depending on the audience. The platform had to look fresh and be easy to use."
– Louise Hobbs, Senior Knowledge Author at Nationwide
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"Refined does exactly what it says it does. It just makes content look good."
– Ioana Kocurova-Giurgiu, Education Content Specialist at Pricefx
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"We found that this is a really wonderful cornerstone for everyone to come to and utilize as a single point of truth."
– Michael Chance, Customer Experience Manager at 6Connex
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"We really embrace the Wiki [approach]. [We want] to give people more control over their material — to post it, edit it, and grow it freely."
– Ashley Mattingly, ITS Communications Administrator
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"We’ve heard way more, ‘Oh, I found this on your documentation, I have questions,’ versus just a question without taking the time to look for the answer."
– Margaux Fiche, Customer Experience Manager, 55 Degrees
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"Instead of us receiving a hundred ‘How do I submit taxes?’ questions, we have an article that’s right in your face when you come to the site."
– Nik Fisher, Team Lead for Client Services at MacEwan
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Knowledge is only half the picture

Pair it with Refined Sites for JSM and turn every answer into a path to action — so users go from finding what they need to getting help, without ever leaving your experience.

  • Surface service requests right where users find answers
  • Close the gap between self-help and support
  • One consistent experience, from first search to resolved ticket
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