Monday.com's Elevate to focus on AI agents that do the work, not just assist

The company's AI lineup, which it calls the monday AI ecosystem, includes Agent Factory for creating specialized agents, monday sidekick for contextual assistance inside the workspace, and monday vibe, which lets users build custom business applications from natural-language prompts. Hands-on sessions at Elevate 2026 will cover building AI agents, creating applications through vibe coding and integrating automation into enterprise workflows.

Paul Nashawaty, principal analyst at theCUBE Research, said the event "signals a broader shift in application development: from building software that helps people manage work to building AI-powered applications and agents that execute work." He said the test for customers is whether they can move past rapid prototyping to production-grade applications with measurable business value, maintainability and enterprise controls, and that Elevate's significance "will ultimately be determined not by how quickly an app can be generated, but by how reliably it can be deployed, governed and scaled."

Sam Weston, analyst at theCUBE Research, cited survey data putting AI capabilities inside at least one stage of the software delivery lifecycle at 92% of organizations, up from 71% in early 2024, and said 79% of organizations expect widespread AI agent adoption within three years. "Elevate26's focus on building with AI agents and human-agent collaboration arrives at a pivotal moment for enterprise leaders," he said.

According to SiliconANGLE's preview of the event, sales teams could use agents to qualify leads and update records, while service organizations could automate ticket routing and resolution. The vendor's pitch is that these activities can be connected inside a shared operational environment, addressing application backlogs and automating processes that span departments.

Giving agents wider responsibility also raises questions the conference agenda is set to address. Agents that can read sensitive information, modify records or initiate transactions need defined permissions and oversight, particularly when their work crosses organizational boundaries, and companies adopting AI-powered work management must decide how agents authenticate before such workflows go into production.

Monday.com is not alone in pushing agents deeper into enterprise software. The shift has moved the category's center of gravity from tracking assignments toward running the process itself, and the event's sessions are weighted toward implementation rather than demonstration, reflecting the difficulty enterprises report in taking experimental AI applications into systems that produce consistent results.