vs.Confluence

Looking for amodern alternativeto Confluence?

Confluence holds pages about the system. Supernova holds the system — then publishes the docs from it.

>90%

of day-to-day design-system work automated by Supernova agents

vs. maintaining a copy of the system in a Confluence space

>10x

faster design system adoption across your teams via in-tool integrations

vs. begging people to read the wiki

>70%

fewer tokens spent on every prompt your team or agent runs

vs. pasting entire spaces into prompts and hoping

In their words
“All the support we’ve received since our arrival shows just how much better it is to be here .”
Renato Michalischen
Design System Manager, Userlane
The gap

Supernova laps Confluence

Linked design system graph

Docs plus tokens, components, rules, and skills — the system you actually wanted.

Agents that take action

Automate day-to-day work with Claude, Cursor, or Supernova’s own agents.

Built-in feedback loop

See how people and agents use the system, then close the gaps.

Made to meet the true reality

Keep Confluence for the company wiki. The design system needs to be data.

Skip the pitch. See it for yourself.

Confluence teams have spoken

Read against each product’s published capabilities and documentation, August 2026.

01

Pages about the system

A design system space in Confluence is screenshots and hex values that were true on the day they were written. The tokens and components themselves live somewhere else.

02

An embed is not an import

A live Figma frame inside a page is useful. It cannot be queried, exported to code, or served to an agent as data. The picture is not the system.

03

Rovo returns page text

Atlassian MCP and Rovo can read and write your space. What they return is the prose someone typed — not tokens, component properties, or usage rules.

04

Nothing notices when Figma moves

Whoever updates the table — a person or an agent — nothing derives the values from Figma, and nothing can tell when a row has gone wrong.

Welcome
Supernova Agent
to your team.

Connect your data, document it, keep it clean and ship it to code. The agent does the work. You approve what matters.

Overview

Good morning, Alex

Ask agent to change, document or check your design system...
Design system dataConnect
Design tokens217
Components63
Figma components723
Assets400
Storybook stories570
Open Portal
Pipelines Add new
CSS
Icons for React
Android assets
Style Dictionary
DocumentationPublish your site
MCP4
Hey 👋
Your design systemLast published 3 months agoOpen editor Publish
2 drafts
URL design-system.supernova.io/latestAudience Private
Docs analyticsLast 7 daysExplore
The deep dive

What makes Supernova the best Confluence alternative

Design sources

Figma import and sync

Variables, collections and components as data

Yes
No

You can embed a frame, not import a system

Storybook and code component import

Stories, props and APIs, connected

Yes
No

An iframe, with no component data behind it

Updates when the design changes

The system refreshes itself, on its own

Yes
No, and..

An agent can rewrite it. Nothing tells it to.

Design system data

Token management

A real source of truth for tokens

Yes

Types, aliases, history and versions

No, and..

A table of values copied from somewhere else

Component and asset management

Structured data, not embedded images

Yes
No
Theming and multi-brand

One system, many brands and themes

Yes
No

No theme layer — a brand is a separate copy

Design system versioning

Versions of the system, not the page

Yes
Yes, but..

Page history, not system versions

Documentation

Design system documentation blocks

Live previews, token tables, spec blocks

Yes
No, and..

Generic blocks. Images, not live components.

Writing, structure and collaboration

Real-time multiplayer editing

Yes
Yes
Custom domain and site theming

Publish under your own brand

Yes
Yes

Distribution and code

Code pipelines and exporters

Design data out as platform code

Yes
No
Design system data over API and SDK

Query the system programmatically

Yes
No, and..

Content API — pages, not system data

AI and agents

MCP over the design system

Agents read the system, not a page

Yes

Tokens, components and docs together

Yes, but..

Rovo and Atlassian MCP reach pages

Scoped contexts per team and brand

Each agent gets only its slice

Yes
No
Agent skills and knowledge files

Rules that travel with the system

Yes
No
Agents that write back

Change the system, not just read it

Yes
No

Agents edit pages, not the design system

Usage feedback loop

See where people and agents hit gaps

Yes
Yes, but..

Content analytics, not system adoption

Everything else your company writes

Meeting notes, project docs, handbook

The rest of how a company writes

No, and..

Not what it is for. Keep your wiki.

Yes, and..

The best of the five at exactly this

Migration

Switching is easier than staying

“We were prepared for a steep learning curve, but it turned out to be a smooth glide.”
Laura Fehre, Design Manager, Mews
Book a demo
  1. 1

    Open Confluence to your agent

    Confluence opens its content through Rovo and the Atlassian MCP server. Give Claude or Cursor read access to your space.

  2. 2

    Give it the keys to Supernova

    Hook Supernova’s edit capabilities into the same agent — it can write designs, code, Figma links, and docs straight into the system.

  3. 3

    Say the word. Watch it move.

    Ask your agent to port the space over. It rebuilds the structure in Supernova in minutes — no export scripts, no rewrite sprint.

  4. 4

    Keep Confluence for the company wiki

    Sprint notes, incident write-ups, the handbook, everything tied to Jira stay where they are. The design system just needed to be data.

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See how Supernova documents, syncs, and serves your system in one place.