Alexis Ohanian

Cal.ai — World's first open source AI scheduling assistant

Think of Cal.ai as your all-in-one AI scheduling assistant. With just a few easy steps, Cal.ai will set you up with your own personal email assistant that will automatically schedule meetings for you.

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Peer Richelsen
Hey everyone, it's Peer from Cal.com and we're crazy pumped to be launching Cal.ai with all of you today. It's been a wild journey with many ups and downs to get this shipped but we're very proud of the outcome. I'm planning to use cal.ai pretty much ever day, so i'll personally make sure it'll be dope and get even better. Hit me up if you have any questions or fedback and post them in our GitHub: https://github.com/calcom/cal.co...
Peer Richelsen
@ambitendency oh right, just head over to go.cal.com/ai and install the app, we've applied the trial for everyone right now
Alexis Ohanian
As someone who greatly values productivity and efficiency, I'm hyped about Cal.com's new AI scheduling tool. It's been cool to see GPT enable so many new use cases. Really excited about what Peer, Bailey, and the team have built here!
Peer Richelsen
@alexisohanian Thank you for hunting us Alexis! 🙏
André J
I really like the name! I think it could be clearer about what it actually is. Is it a calendly replacement, is it an otter.ai replacement ? or is there another differentiator here?
André J
@peer_rich Yes but as a potential customer then I am asking my self. Why would I switch from callendly and otter to cal.ai? What is the benefit of having this rolled into one? Also it seems like it's a google meet rolled into it as well. Bundling is fine, but it's not a differentiator that will convert users per se. As a potential customer I would want to know the tremendous benefit of having all these features in one. Then When I understand this benefit I would make the effort to ditch what I currently use and adopt this new better solution. Right now that argument isn't made clear in the communication on the website. # my 2 cents
Christian Eggert
@peer_rich @sentry_co Switched a year ago from calendly and never looked back. Simply a much better product experience. If you're happy with calendly, just stick.
André J
@peer_rich @eggertxyz So in your experience what makes it better?
Kai Moon
@peer_rich @sentry_co @eggertxyz couldn't agree more! I switched from Calendly and also never looked back.
Felix Magedanz
Can’t wait to have access. Cal is already saving me much time, and Cal.ai is going to be next level efficiency.
Peer Richelsen
@flxmgdnz lets goo! let me know if you need help and thank you for the support!
flo merian
Launching soon!
recently switched to cal.com and it feels just right. open source and beautifully crafted, it just works. eager to give cal.ai a spin!
Alexis Ohanian
@fmerian I love reading customer comments like this!
Timur Ercan
I am pretty sceptical about most AI products, since there is so much noise, but but this really awesome. Cal only ships stuff that's actually usable day and I am really hyped to try it out ❤️🚀
Sandy
what else can it do or do you plan for it to do?
Peer Richelsen
@sandymakesplans we eventually plan to let cal.ai do everything you can do today with UI
Sandy
@peer_rich right now, this is the mvp?
Peer Richelsen
@sandymakesplans yeah this is the first working version with a lot more cool stuff to come
Bailey Pumfleet
I’m super excited to be launching Cal.ai finally. This is an incredibly useful way to interact with cal.com and schedule meetings more naturally, and we’ll continue to extend this with more ways to communicate with it (SMS, Telegram, Raycast etc). It’s going to be awesome.
Peer Richelsen
@baileypumfleet Raycast 👀
Maestro
This looks like having a personal scheduling wizard. Great job on turning this idea into a reality team :)
Peer Richelsen
@notionmaestro thank you Notion Maestro! We also hope to provide a nice API for this so people can plug this into their other tools (such as notion)
Rami
Finally! Hopefully it can automatically rebalance calendars so that we have no idea what the next meeting is 😁
Peer Richelsen
@kingromstar yeah i think the rebalancing is a whole another can of worms that I don't think we should be touching yet
Dexter Storey
I love not thinking about scheduling anymore. I got a DM from someone on twitter who wanted to book a user interview -> From my phone, I just emailed dexter@cal.ai: "Find a time to meet with [their email address]" and closed the mail app. I didn't have to think about it at all -> The AI got in touch with the person I wanted to meet, found a good time and put it on my calendar. I got a notification with a video link some time the next day -> clicked it and was chatting with my new friend in a different timezone halfway around the world. Literally 10 seconds of logistics all included. It's not perfect yet - lot's to polish and tons of exciting ideas coming in to explore - but I think with this tech - we can see a path to ending Calendar BS and giving everyone a personal assistant in their pocket. PLUS IT'S FREAKING OS so you can stand it up locally or use it as a framework for building your own AI assistants! BTW, if you ever have questions about the tech or want to chat about AI -> You can now literally just email hi@cal.ai "Book time with @dexter to talk about AI" 🚀✌️
Aria Minaei
Just gave it a go and it's definitely the easiest meeting I've ever scheduled! No context switching, no distractions, and works even better on mobile too.
Ilko Kacharov [Team-GPT]
Congrats on the launch, product looks amazing, can't wait to try it out
Esus 🛡️
Always love a Cal.com launch! Congrats on the launch Cal team! Design looks fire. :D
Peer Richelsen
@esus thank you! The design team -- as always, crushed it!
Rajiv Ayyangar
So excited for this, as a longtime cal.com user! Do I just cc my username@cal.Ai?
Peer Richelsen
@rajiv_ayyangar yes! for i.e. for cal.com/peer its peer@cal.ai
max
Great idea to make ai do another, otherwise manual task of adding / scheduling events! Can be a significant helper for someone having and managing a lot of cal events. The landing page could be a bit more clear. You also got a text there saying "One on on with Sally" on one of the images.
Lewis Thombs
Definitely going to try this!
Joseph Jacks
Cal was already saving me hours a week of wasted time to schedule meetings with people … now Cal AI is taking it all to an entirely new level. Amazing. ❤️‍🔥🚀
Nathan 🔸 Tarbert
Congrats @peer_rich & @alexisohanian for the amazing launch! I love CAL.com and I can't wait to try out Cal-AI!
Steven Tey
Incredibly excited for this – congrats on the ship!!