A Year's Backlog in 90 Days

Amichay Even Chen, VP Product at monday.com, put it bluntly:

"We shipped a year's worth of backlog in one quarter. Not because we worked harder. Because AI changed who does the work."

This isn't a marketing claim. 19+ features, 26 A/B tests – shipped in a single quarter. Here's what's behind the massive update and why it changes how teams work with monday.com.

The Shift: From Capacity to Judgment

The most compelling insight from the Q1 update isn't technical – it's organizational:

• Engineers have AI writing most of their code
• Designers prototype and ship on their own
• Analysts generate insights in minutes instead of days

The result: The bottleneck has shifted. From capacity → to judgment. "Can we build this?" stopped being the question. The new question: "Should we build this?"

This aligns with what we describe as Vibe Coding – and what we identified as the decisive paradigm shift in our Agentic Engineering Framework.

All Q1/2026 Features at a Glance

📱 Mobile & Platform Integration

Feature	What it means
Vibe Apps on Mobile	For the first time, Vibe Apps can be used on iOS and Android – a game changer for field teams
Replace Homepage	Your Vibe App can now replace the monday.com homepage – custom dashboards as the default landing page
Dashboard Widgets	Vibe Apps can be embedded as widgets directly into existing dashboards
Custom Item Views	Items can be equipped with custom Vibe App views – context exactly where it's needed

→ monday Vibe Getting Started Guide

🎨 Design & Branding

Feature	What it means
New App Design System	More consistent, professional apps through a revamped UI framework
Upload Images for Theme	Upload an image and monday extracts a visual theme for your app
Brand Extraction from URL	Enter a website URL – monday automatically extracts colors, fonts, and style for your app branding
Reusable Templates	Save built apps as templates and reuse them across your organization

→ Best Practices, Features & Capabilities

🔧 Builder Experience

Feature	What it means
Chat Before You Build	Chat with the AI before building – clarify requirements before the first line is generated
Speech to Prompt	Prompt via voice input – it doesn't get more natural than this
Safe Edit (No Auto-Publish)	Make changes without them going live immediately – finally a staging mode
Notify When Building is Finished	Get notified when your app is done generating – no more watching the screen
Ownership Transfer	Transfer app ownership to other team members
Connect Additional Boards	Apps can now pull data from multiple boards simultaneously

→ monday Vibe FAQs & Troubleshooting

📧 Communication & Output

Feature	What it means
Gmail/Outlook Integration	Send and receive emails directly from Vibe Apps
Emails & Activities	Centralized view for the entire communication history of a contact
File Preview (Image/Video/PDF)	Preview files directly in the app – no download required
PDF Export	Export apps and their data as PDF

→ Gmail Integration · Emails & Activities

🧪 Testing & Iteration

• 26 different A/B tests running simultaneously – monday is aggressively testing which UX patterns work best. The iteration pace is unprecedented.

What This Means for Teams

This update transforms monday Vibe from a "nice to have" feature into a serious app platform:

1. Citizen developers become real: With mobile support, Safe Edit, and templates, non-developers can build and maintain production-ready apps
2. CRM goes native: Gmail/Outlook integration plus Emails & Activities make separate CRM tools redundant for many teams
3. Enterprise-ready: Ownership Transfer and Safe Edit solve two of the biggest governance concerns in organizations
4. Design quality improves: Brand Extraction and the new Design System ensure Vibe Apps no longer look "homemade"

Context: Why the Pace Matters

26 A/B tests in one quarter – that's not a normal pace. Amichay Even Chen himself says: "The pace doesn't feel normal. I think that's the point."

monday.com is leveraging a flywheel effect: The AI tools they give their customers, they use internally themselves. Engineers write code faster, designers ship faster, analysts measure faster. This accelerates the platform, which in turn accelerates its users.

This is exactly the AI capacity shift we observe with our clients – and what we describe as a productivity multiplier in the Vibe Coding context.

Further Resources

• 📘 monday Vibe – Getting Started
• 🛠️ Best Practices & Features
• ❓ FAQs & Troubleshooting
• 💰 Permissions & Pricing
• 📧 Gmail Integration
• 📧 Emails & Activities
• 🔗 Our monday Vibe Apps Guide
• 🎨 Brand & Assets Kit

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Based on the LinkedIn post by Amichay Even Chen, VP Product at monday.com, and our own research.