Assaf Elovic is a Head of AI based in Tel Aviv with 10 years of experience building production-grade AI products and teams, currently leading AI strategy, product, engineering and responsible AI at monday.com. He created GPT Researcher — an autonomous, open-source deep research agent with 20k+ stars that generates long, cited reports — and co-built Tavily search. Previously he led R&D at Wix, co-founded Tiv.ai (YC alum, 5M users, $1.5M raised) and led AI at Servicefriend through acquisition by Meta. His work spans hands-on backend engineering (Python, OpenAI integrations, vector search), product-led growth, and early-stage investing as a Sequoia scout. Trained in both economics and computer science with an MBA in tech entrepreneurship, he pairs academic teaching and patent-backed engineering with startup-scale execution. He’s noted for translating research-grade models into secure, scalable features that drive adoption across millions of users.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship (MoTIE), Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship (MoTIE) at Tel Aviv University
Bachelor’s Degree, Economics, Bachelor’s Degree, Economics at IDC Herzliya
LLM based autonomous agent that conducts deep local and web research on any topic and generates a long report with citations.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Contributions:49 releases, 305 reviews, 471 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Assaf's commits primarily involve adding and modifying base files within the project, with a focus on configuration settings. The most significant changes include the implementation of configuration options. Key technologies and areas of focus include Python, .env files and usage of the openai library.
Contributions:8 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
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