Ep211: Going All In - How Monday.com Rebuilt Its Mission With Agentic AI

Ep211: Going All In - How Monday.com Rebuilt Its Mission With Agentic AI

From AWS for Software Companies Podcast by AWS - Amazon Web Services

June 21, 2026 · 44 min · Episode 211

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Daniel Lereya discusses how Monday.com redefined its mission around agentic AI, transforming its approach to product development and workforce automation.

With 250,000 customers and $1.2B in revenue, Monday.com's CPTO explains why they threw out their roadmap and rebuilt everything around agentic AI. Topics Include: Daniel Lereya joined Monday.com when it had just 30 people and five engineers. He grew the R&D org from five engineers to roughly 900 over a decade. Three years ago Daniel became Monday.com's first ever CPTO. Monday.com initially approached AI by adding small features across the product. They called this early phase "sprinkling AI dust" — helpful but not transformative. A pivotal board meeting made Daniel realise AI hadn't changed Monday's core value. Monday.com decided to rethink its mission from first principles around AI. The new mission: AI agents that actually execute work, not just manage it. AI gives businesses an "infinite workforce" regardless of company size. Agents can now do hyper-personalised work at a scale humans simply cannot. Monday's platform puts agents at the centre, replacing boards and dashboards. Shared context and human-in-the-loop handoffs make their agents uniquely powerful. Monday ran an "AI month" — pausing the entire 900-person builder org to transform. The month rebuilt team mindset and…

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