AWS Summit London - how monday.com hit $1m ARR in ten weeks, and what a children's literacy charity has in common with it

Frankie Smith, Interim CEO of Bookmark Reading Charity, needed at least 300 more reading volunteers to meet the demand from UK schools – and recruiting them was never going to be quick.

Every volunteer has to be vetted and trained, and that process exists for good reason. Amichay Even Chen, Product Lead at monday AI, had 250,000 customers asking for features that never made the roadmap because they were too complex to build. Both organizations have found a way forward with AWS.

Bookmark – building an AI reading companion that puts safeguarding first

One in four children in UK primary schools cannot read to the expected standard. Bookmark has spent years trying to address that through a volunteer reading program – trained adults who sit with children once a week and read with them. It works. Independent evaluation shows 95% of teachers see increased confidence in children on the program, and 80 ...