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monday.com Q1 2026 Updates: Campaigns, CRM, AI & Platform Features

monday.com Q1 2026: What's New Webinar Summary

This webinar, hosted by Omer from the monday.com Academy team, showcased the major feature releases for Q1 2026 across the monday.com ecosystem. The session was divided into three core product areas: monday.com Campaigns, monday.com CRM, and broader platform enhancements, followed by a live Q&A. A central theme was the deep integration of AI to automate tasks, provide insights, and accelerate workflows.

Monday.com Campaigns: AI-Powered Marketing & Sales Alignment

Presented by Alicia Cavalli, the focus was on connecting marketing efforts with sales data and introducing AI-driven efficiency.

  • Brand & Assets: A new feature that automatically extracts brand assets (logo, colors, fonts) from a URL in seconds, ensuring all campaigns are on-brand.
  • AI Campaign Creation: Users can now generate full email campaigns using a natural language prompt. The AI pulls from your Brand & Assets and learns from past successful campaigns to suggest templates.
  • Email Activity in CRM: A critical update: campaign email activities (sent, opened, clicked) now automatically sync with the CRM's contact and lead boards, giving sales reps full context on prospect engagement.
  • Shared Contacts: For customers with both Campaigns and CRM, the marketing contacts view now lives directly within the CRM, providing a single source of truth. This is one of several 4 Compelling Reasons Your Company Needs Monday.com Now.
  • Upcoming Features (Q2 & H2 2026):
    • Landing Pages (end of Q2)
    • Smart Send Timing (send emails at recipient's local time)
    • Mailing List Preferences (allow unsubscribes from specific email types)
    • Multi-Channel Support (SMS, WhatsApp, ads)
    • Integration with monday.com Work Management for a seamless marketing planning-to-execution flow.

Monday.com CRM: AI Agents, Deal Insights, & Streamlined Quotes

Presented by Bo from the CRM team, the updates focused on the pillars of AI executes real work, lead-to-delivery flow, and built-in foresight.

  • Revamped Quotes & Invoices: A completely new, intuitive editor allows for easy template creation with custom fields, taxes, and line items. A new workflow trigger can automatically update a deal's total value when a quote is created.
  • Deal Insights Widget: An AI-powered widget on deal items that analyzes negative and positive signals (e.g., "no activity in 30 days" or "meeting scheduled") to flag deals at risk. It also provides a suggested next action, like generating a follow-up email.
  • AI Email Assistant: A new assistant within the email composer can write, rephrase (e.g., make more formal), shorten, or expand email drafts with a few clicks.
  • Sidekick for CRM: The AI assistant now understands all CRM context, including email and call activity. It can answer questions like "What deals are at risk?" at the board level or "Who is my most influential contact?" at the account level. For a broader overview of these capabilities, see 10 Game-Changing AI Features in monday.com You Need to Know.
  • New: CRM Lead Agent: An AI agent that autonomously sources leads based on your Ideal Customer Profile (ICP). You define the criteria (e.g., title, company, location), and the agent finds and adds them to your leads board daily.

Platform & AI Governance: Building, Visualizing & Controlling

Presented by Aleah from the customer experience team, these updates enhance how teams build and manage work, with new tools for admins.

  • New AI Board Creation: Create a fully structured board (with columns, items, and sub-items) by simply describing it in natural language.
  • Enhanced Sidekick:
    • Can now add and populate columns (e.g., a drop-down for "Launch Channel") directly on a board.
    • Can generate charts and visual breakdowns of board data on demand.
    • Includes an upgraded image generation model for creating assets like social media graphics.
    • New: Sidekick for Workflows: Use conversational prompts to build and modify automation workflows. This builds on the productivity techniques covered in 99 Monday.com Tips to Boost Productivity: Master Automation, CRM, AI & More.
  • Monday Vibe Updates: The no-code app builder now has native email integration support (Gmail/Outlook) , allowing Vibe to guide users through connecting an email account to send messages directly from the app.
  • New Dashboards Widgets:
    • List View Widget: Pull in multiple boards into a single, sortable, and filterable list. Can now export to Excel.
    • Calendar Widget: Now supports start and end date ranges for viewing multi-day events and projects. Allows click-and-drag to create events.
  • Managed Templates: You can now push new board views (e.g., filtered views for different teams) from a template to all its existing instances instantly.
  • Content Directory Enhancements: Admins can now archive and delete boards directly from the Content Directory in admin settings, making cleanup easier.
  • New: AI Governance Center: A centralized admin panel to manage AI usage with tabs for:
    • Permissions: Control who has access to AI features by role and workspace.
    • Credits: View total usage, remaining balance, and purchase more.
    • Usage Limits: Set credit limits for specific users (e.g., 90 credits/user) with alerts.
    • Agent Directory: View and manage all AI agents.
    • Vibe Apps & Note Taker: Monitor usage and adoption of these features.

Key Takeaways

  • Sales & Marketing Alignment is Central: The new integration between Campaigns and CRM (shared contacts, synced email activity) breaks down silos.
  • AI is for Automation and Action: Beyond content creation, AI now sources leads, analyzes deals for risk, builds workflows, and creates board structures.
  • Control and Visibility for Admins: The new AI Governance Center provides the control needed to adopt AI confidently at scale.
  • Speed and Efficiency: From creating a board with a prompt to generating a complex quote, the focus is on reducing manual clicks and context-switching. For a step-by-step walkthrough of the basics, refer to the Complete Monday.com Tutorial For Beginners (Work Management Guide).

For more details on the January 2026 updates that set the stage for these Q1 innovations, check out Monday.com January 2026 Updates: Sidekick AI, Multi-Level Subitems & More.

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