As AI continues to reshape the sales landscape, monday.com has introduced built-in predictive features into its CRM suite, leveraging advanced large language models (LLMs) to surface signals from customer conversations. While these enhancements add an impressive layer of intelligence, a new generation of no-code AI tools is pushing the boundaries even further.
Enter AutoBrain - a powerful monday.com app that empowers users to create machine learning models based entirely on their own board data, with no technical knowledge required. In this article, we compare monday.com’s native Sales AI with the AutoBrain app, revealing why many teams find them complementary, but often turn to AutoBrain for serious, scalable prediction needs.
What is monday.com Sales AI?
monday.com’s Sales AI uses cutting-edge LLM-powered tools to extract and analyze patterns from user interactions, especially in emails and deal-related threads. It surfaces insights like:
- Sentiment analysis
- Data Enrichment
- Data Extraction
This technology is excellent for enriching your CRM with additional data points derived from communication. It's particularly valuable in high-touch sales environments where detailed correspondence helps reveal deal dynamics. However, while it provides useful enrichment, it is not a decision-making engine. The extracted insights are not based on your historical data, unique customer base, or business-specific signals.
Introducing AutoBrain: Predictive Intelligence from Your Own Data
AutoBrain is a no-code machine learning engine embedded within monday.com. It allows users to build tailored predictive models using any board data - from sales pipelines to support tickets or marketing metrics.
With a few clicks, users can:
- Define a business objective (e.g., "Which leads are likely to close?")
- Select a target column (like "Won"/"Lost", "Renewed", etc.)
- Train a model that learns from your buisness and propsects historical trends
- Trigger predictions via monday automations
Side-by-Side Comparison: monday.com Sales AI vs AutoBrain
| Feature | monday.com Sales AI | AutoBrain |
|---|---|---|
| Prediction method | LLM-based text analysis | Data-driven AI |
| Data source | Email threads & messages | All monday.com board data |
| Pricing | Thousand of dollars, with usage limits | Starts at $49/mo |
| Customization | Predefined generic model | Fully customizable to your data |
| Scalability | Limited by quota | Flexible and scalable plans |
| Best for | Correspondence "only" sales | Data oreinted businesses |
Pricing: Clear Value for Growing Teams
monday.com’s AI features are bundled with enterprise CRM plans and typically come with usage limitations (only a few thousand predictions per year).
In contrast, AutoBrain offers 10,000+ predictions monthly starting at just $49/month, with more volume and flexibility at every tier.
Flexibility: Train on What Actually Matters
monday.com's AI focuses on interpreting email threads. It helps surface otherwise hidden insights by extracting additional attributes from sales communications. However, if your signals come from forms, product analytics, support notes, or third-party systems, you're left in the dark. AutoBrain, by contrast, lets you train on any column - from status to numbers, categories, and even sentiment fields extracted by other tools.
That means you stay in control of the data you use to forecast your future.
Analogy: Don’t Let Generic Forecasts Drive Your Business
Think of monday.com’s Sales AI like a weather app that gives you general forecasts for your city. Useful? Sure. But AutoBrain is like installing a personal weather station in your backyard - it knows your exact conditions and gives you predictions based on your own environment.
Use Them Together: Enrich + Predict
Many teams combine both tools for optimal results:
- Use monday AI to extract additional fields from conversations (like tone, urgency)
- Feed those fields into AutoBrain to build precise prediction models trained on your data
Bottom Line: There’s No One-Size-Fits-All in Business
monday.com’s Sales AI is a great step forward for conversational insight. It gives you valuable enrichment by adding extra data points from your correspondence. But for decisions that matter, you need forecasts trained on your clients, your outcomes, and your reality.
AutoBrain delivers just that - and scales with you as your sales strategy grows smarter.
