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AI Project Manager Agent for Monday.com
Late and stuck items across your Monday.com boards raised with their owners, and one rollup of progress posted for the team.
When projects run across several Monday.com boards, nobody has a single view of what is late, and items marked stuck can stay that way for days. This agent reads your boards, finds late, stuck and unowned items, and raises each one through an update on the item itself. Your team gets one progress rollup across boards, and dates or owners change only with approval.
- Late, stuck and unowned items raised with owners on the item
- One progress rollup across all your Monday.com boards
- Date and owner changes made only after your approver agrees
$4,900
20–30 working days
Optional maintenance $249/mo
What it is
AI Project Manager Agent for Monday.com reads the items on your Monday.com boards, finds work that is late, marked stuck or missing an owner, and raises it through an update on the item. It posts one progress rollup across boards to your team channel, and asks your approver before changing dates or owners.
Why businesses buy it
Monday.com boards look clear one at a time, but a stuck status changes color and nobody follows up. Managers spend hours flicking between boards to build a picture, and by the next meeting the slip is already real. This agent reads every board in scope, raises problems where your team already talks, and posts one honest rollup. Owners hear about blockers sooner and leaders stop compiling reports by hand. The boards, rules and permissions are agreed on the Scope Card before you order, so nothing on your boards changes unexpectedly.
Problems this solves
Items marked stuck on Monday.com boards stay that way for weeks
The agent reads the items on your Monday.com boards and finds work that is late, marked stuck or missing an owner. It raises each one through an update on the item.
No single view shows progress across several Monday.com boards
It posts one progress rollup across your boards to the team channel. Leaders see the whole picture without opening each board or building a separate dashboard by hand.
Dates and owners change without the right person agreeing
Before changing dates or owners, the agent asks your approver. The field mapping is documented, so you know exactly which columns it reads and which it may update.
A good fit if
Projects run on several Monday.com boards, and no one has a single view of what is late across all of them.
Items get set to stuck and stay that way, because the person who could help never sees the status change.
Your team already discusses work in item updates, so that is where follow-ups should land.
Your Monday.com admin can supply an API token and agree on a 30-minute call what the agent may change.
Not the right fit if
You want approved status updates sent to clients from your boards. See AI Project Status Agent for Monday.com.
Your team needs meeting decisions captured and assigned. See AI Meeting Agent.
You track work in Jira. See AI Project Manager Agent for Jira.
Boards need restructuring, or old data migrating, before anything can be tracked. That is outside this Scope Card; add a note at checkout for a Change Quote.
How it works
- Your Monday.com admin joins a 30-minute call to choose the boards in scope, name the status and date columns that matter, and set what the agent may edit.
- Items are checked against your rules: past their date, set to stuck, unassigned, or unchanged for longer than you allow.
- Each problem item gets an update posted on it, addressed to the owner, so the follow-up sits in the item's own history.
- One rollup is posted to your team channel on schedule, covering every board in scope: done since last time, late, stuck, and coming due.
- Proposed changes to dates, owners or status go to your approver and are applied on the board only after a yes.
What you provide within 72 hours
Your portal lists these the moment you order. Delivery starts the working day after everything is in and your access is checked.
- A monday.com API token with access to the boards in scope.
- Your Monday.com admin for a 30-minute setup call.
- Which status and date columns count, and how long an item may sit unchanged.
- Ten sample items or updates that reflect how your team reports progress.
- The approver for date, owner and status changes.
- Access to your team channel and the one other system, with test boards if possible.
- One decision-maker for the final rules.
- An API key for your own AI model account (for example OpenAI or Google Gemini), created for this build with a spending limit.
The 72-hour rule. Send everything on your checklist, including access, within 72 hours of ordering so your build starts on time.
Timeline
Start
Intake verified; boards, columns and rules agreed.
Weeks 1–2
Item checks, follow-up updates and the rollup built.
Week 3
Boards, items and updates connected, channel linked.
Weeks 3–4
Fifty scenarios run on test boards.
Week 4
You review; two rounds of changes follow.
Go-live
Live across your Monday.com boards, handoff recorded, support starts.
| Option | Delivery time | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Standard | 20–30 working days | $4,900 |
| Express | 15–25 working days | $5,750 |
| Rush | 10–20 working days | $6,600 |
What you receive at handover
- The AI Project Manager Agent for Monday.com, configured across your agreed boards
- A two-way Monday.com connection with documented field mapping, plus up to one more system
- Access through user invites or keys under your control, with nothing sent by email
- A test report on sandbox or test records
- Admin guide plus the recorded handoff session
- 30 days of support after go-live
Expected benefits and how to measure them
- Can shorten the time items spend marked stuck
- Helps leaders follow several boards from one update
- Makes owner and date changes pass through an agreed approver
- Items marked stuck
- Filter your boards for the stuck status and record the count weekly, starting the week before launch.
- Items with no owner
- Count items with an empty person column on active boards at launch and at each month end.
- Late items at month end
- Count items past their date column at the end of the month before launch and each month after.
Before you start: Record how many items are late, stuck or unowned across your boards today. Note how cross-board progress is reported now.
These are things to track, not promised results. Outcomes depend on your data, your team and your market.
Running costs
The build price is one-time. Afterwards, AI model usage and hosting cost roughly $50 to $250 a month in your own accounts, depending on the number of boards and workflows. Your Monday.com subscription is unchanged; licenses and upgrades are outside the build.
Usage during build and testing is billed to your accounts too.
Ask about running costsCustom requirements
Restructuring boards, migrating old items, custom Monday.com objects or a seventh workflow are priced through a written Change Quote. Add a checkout note and we send it to you.
Request a custom versionKeep it running
Monthly maintenance covers monitoring, fixes and a monthly allowance of change hours, such as adding a new board to the rollup. It bills monthly and can be cancelled any month.
$249/mo (the minimum fee, includes 2 change hours)
Optional. Starts after the post-launch support period. Cancel any month.
How maintenance worksHow this compares
| Do it yourself with a SaaS tool | Hire a custom agency | Upmark Labs | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | A dashboard app for Monday.com bills monthly | A PMO analyst compiles rollups by hand | Ours is one fixed price, shown before you buy |
| Cross-board view | A dashboard you have to open and read | A spreadsheet updated weekly | Ours posts one rollup across boards to your channel |
| Stuck items | A status color changes with no follow-up | Raised at the next meeting | Ours posts an update to the owner on the item |
| Delivery | You configure the widgets and rules | Hiring takes weeks | Ours has a fixed delivery time shown before you buy, with faster options |
Questions about this product
What Monday.com data does the project manager agent work with?
Boards, items and updates. It reads items and their status and date columns on the boards in scope, and posts updates on items to reach their owners. Edits to dates, owners or status follow your approval rules. The mapping your admin approves sets the boundaries, and custom Monday.com objects are excluded.
Can AI Project Manager Agent for Monday.com report across several boards?
Yes. The boards in the agreed mapping all feed one rollup posted to your team channel, showing what was done, what is late, what is stuck and what is coming due. If you want separate rollups per team, each can be one of the six workflows on the Scope Card.
What happens when an item is set to stuck on Monday.com?
If the item stays stuck beyond the time you set, the agent posts an update on it addressed to the owner, asking what is needed. If it still has not moved by the next checkpoint, it is raised in your team channel and listed in the next rollup.
How fast can the Monday.com project manager edition go live?
Timing starts once your Monday.com token, board selection and approval rules are verified, which is due within 72 hours of ordering. Standard, express and rush delivery times are shown in the delivery panel before you buy, so you can choose the pace that fits. Choosing your boards before you order keeps intake short.
Does the Monday.com agent change our boards without asking?
Not unless you allow it. Posting updates on items needs no sign-off, but changing a date, owner or status is proposed to your named approver and applied only after a yes. The field mapping also limits which boards and columns it can ever touch.
What does the Monday.com project manager agent cost to run?
Roughly $50 to $250 a month for AI model usage and hosting, billed in your own accounts and rising with the number of boards and active workflows. Your Monday.com plan is unchanged. Monthly maintenance is optional and starts after the 30 days of support, for changes such as a new board in the rollup.
Guides on this topic
All guides See every late item across your boards in one place.
Order AI Project Manager Agent for Monday.com and stuck, late and unowned items are raised with their owners on the board, with one cross-board rollup posted to your team.
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