Monday.com lets Sidekick turn questions into board views instantly

Monday.com gave Sidekick a more practical job on April 17, 2026: turn a reporting question into a board view that can be used immediately. The updated guidance says the AI assistant can recognize reporting intent, show a visualization of the request as an image, or create a new view directly on the board, with supported formats including Table, Gantt, Calendar, Battery, Chart and Numbers.

That matters because it changes the first step in reporting from picking the right widget to simply asking the question. Once Sidekick builds the view, it drops into the board’s views bar like any other native view, which means the result sits inside the same workflow teams already use rather than sending them into a separate analytics layer. For a non-technical team lead trying to answer a status question before a standup, that is a meaningful shift in how fast a board can become decision-ready.

The feature is limited to Board Views, not Dashboards, which keeps the experience tied to operational work rather than executive reporting. Monday.com also said users can add up to 100 board views per board, a sign that it expects these AI-made views to become part of everyday use rather than a one-off trick. Sidekick is accessed from the colorful AI star icon at the board level, reinforcing that monday.com is embedding AI where work already happens.

The update also sits on top of monday.com’s older board architecture. The company has long offered a Views Center and an Add View button, so this is not a new reporting product as much as a new path into an existing one. Monday.com’s broader AI system is described as context-aware and connected to boards, docs, workflows, apps, attached files, web search and advanced language models, which gives Sidekick more context than a simple chat box would have.

That broader design matters for product, engineering and sales teams inside monday.com. Product managers can see how the company is trying to reduce support friction for customers who do not know which view to choose. Sales teams get a cleaner demo story: ask for the insight, get the board view, keep the work inside monday.com. Engineers can also see the architectural direction, since the company’s AI-generated board flow already creates a relevant name and description, the right columns and settings, a preconfigured AI column and five example items. Sidekick now appears to be carrying that same prompt-to-structure idea into reporting, which makes the real test less about how polished the view looks and more about whether it helps teams decide faster.