Dev Interrupted How monday.com paused its roadmap for 30 days to hit AI escape velocity | Sergei Liakhovetsky
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Mar 3, 2026 Sergei Liakhovetsky, VP of R&D at monday.com who led their 30-day AI push and major infrastructure rebuilds, discusses pausing roadmaps to align 700 engineers on production-grade AI work. He covers rebuilding data foundations, a cell-based architecture, launching Magic, Vibe, Sidekick and Agent Factory, and how reliability shifts when platforms become GPU-bound.
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Trust Demands Rebuilding Data Foundations
- Trust is the primary currency for enterprise adoption and requires rearchitecting data and scale.
- monday.com rebuilt MondayDB (SQL→Cassandra→in-cache DBs) to support millions of items per board and restore performance for large customers.
Run An AI Month That Ships To Production
- Do run a focused company-wide AI month that ships production work not just demos.
- monday.com paused roadmaps, engaged 700 builders, and set rules that projects must fit the roadmap and reach production.
Align Experiments With Team Commitments
- Do map experiments to existing team commitments and product roadmaps to avoid wasted work.
- monday.com worked team-by-team for two weeks to align AI experiments with customer commitments and prioritized convertible ideas.