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Omri Bruchim is an engineering leader at monday.com building monday sidekick, an AI assistant that helps people understand and prioritize their work. His career spans mobile infrastructure, no-code software, real-time data systems, and enterprise AI.

From mobile platforms to enterprise AI

Bruchim studied at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and earned an MBA from Tel Aviv University. After engineering and mobile leadership roles at Soluto and Asurion, he joined Wix, where he worked on mobile infrastructure, React Native, and application performance. His open-source react-native-perf-logger reflects that early focus on understanding production software.

He later co-led Branded App by Wix, which enables businesses to create native mobile applications without writing code. Building the product involved organizing engineering, design, analytics, and product teams around direct relationships with customers, as described in Wix’s account of its mobile app builder.

Bruchim subsequently co-founded drift.dev, serving as chief technology officer of a startup focused on monitoring and controlling real-time data pipelines. He brought that experience with streaming infrastructure and rapidly changing information into his AI work at monday.com.

Teaching assistants what work actually means

Bruchim’s central argument is that connecting an assistant to workplace applications does not teach it which commitments matter or how projects, people, and decisions relate. His work on Sidekick concentrates on three practical ideas:

  • Systems of context: Enterprise assistants need relationships between records, not simply more search results. A code change, for example, becomes meaningful when connected to its pull request, project task, and the customer problem behind it.
  • Monday world model: A contextual representation of people, projects, dependencies, and commitments gives Sidekick a working understanding of an individual’s responsibilities. Bruchim describes that effort in his account of building the world model.
  • Precomputed work context: Bruchim and colleague Tomer Ast describe an architecture that combines durable behavioral patterns with fast-changing signals, isolates unreliable sources, and checks important information against live data. Their AI Engineer conference talk also acknowledges cold starts, biased signals, and the difficulty of identifying genuinely consequential developments.

Bruchim’s interest also extends to how an agents-first world affects people, connecting production AI design with the human consequences of increasingly capable assistants.

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Sidekick’s architecture combines a durable model of how someone works with fresh signals about their day, preparing context before an agent is asked to prioritize.

  • What should I focus on right now?
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  • An assistant where the work happens
    2:30 ↗
  • Why meaning must be built before the request
    4:30 ↗
  • Three things the agent can reason over
    8:11 ↗
  • One engine learns the person; another follows the day
    9:05 ↗
  • Rapid updates and gradual consolidation
    10:16 ↗
  • Precompute context, then refresh selectively
    11:14 ↗
  • A growing model still trails reality
    12:30 ↗
  • Turning Omri’s breadcrumbs into today’s context
    13:28 ↗
  • Connect the work before asking the agent to act
    15:01 ↗

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