zerzar

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by zerzar 6y ago
Could you explain what you mean by higher priority to me vs others? Currently each meeting has an urgency defined by the organizer (ASAP, this week, etc) and automatic rescheduling will happen based on that. We don't currently support
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by zerzar 6y ago
Thanks Nick!
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by zerzar 6y ago
Office has most of the market share but there are still millions of employees using G suite to book meetings so it is a significant initial target for us. We will expand to outlook in the future
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by zerzar 6y ago
This is exactly what our paid product does: https://zynq.io :)
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by zerzar 6y ago
Thats a good point! Every company (F500 or not) has different cultural/social norms about how they treat attendees (and even cc on emails!)
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by zerzar 6y ago
thank you for the feedback! we are certainly not married to the name, but simply prioritizing the product/features ahead of it currently
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by zerzar 6y ago
ah got it - yeah most large companies have proprietary systems to help with that since its not a simple problem at scale. do you work in recruiting? If so, I'd love to understand the problem space more deeply in that domain!
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by zerzar 6y ago
Good idea, this is also a feature on Google Calendar. IME it is not used much unfortunately, and the challenge is balancing the work a user needs to do up-front vs. the benefits. Definitely thinking about creative ways to get this informati
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by zerzar 6y ago
ammon - thanks for chiming in! I have not used x.ai in a while and it looks like you guys have added some really awesome features since then. looking forward to trying it out again!
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by zerzar 6y ago
Sorry for the confusion - our paid product does more than just meeting priority inference, it allows you optimize meeting room utilization and is targeted to companies to help them better utilize office space. We launched this free version
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by zerzar 6y ago
Would love to learn more about the use-case for recruiting! Are you thinking in terms of scheduling when the candidates come in / hop on the phone based on interviewer availability?
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by zerzar 6y ago
x.ai focuses on scheduling meetings with people outside your company (so there is still a manual step of choosing a time) and doesn't work great for 5+ people. We're focused on internal company meetings, and so we can automaticall
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by zerzar 6y ago
For our paid product, we allow the company to set priority based on roles (mostly for executives) and also to tune the algorithm to work differently (prioritizing meeting space utilization vs. individual focus time)
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by zerzar 6y ago
Optimizing scheduling in a system that is already at or over capacity (i.e. double bookings) is a very challenging problem and we don't claim to solve that problem. It would require manual user input which doesn't work very well.
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by zerzar 6y ago
We think of priority based on time sensitivity - not importance. For example, if I have a 1:1 with my direct report, it is very important but not time sensitive. This allows us to move that 1:1 if needed to accommodate a more urgent meeting
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by zerzar 6y ago
Absolutely, especially if it required others to move meetings around to accommodate. We've spoken to a few EAs at big tech companies that spend 3+ hours on some days doing just this and they were incredibly excited to try out the produ
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by zerzar 6y ago
Ah I see, do you mean in case you need to do some prep/post-meeting work for a meeting and if its sandwiched, there is no time to do it? I can see that being a problem as well, we are adding functionality to cycle through suggested tim
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by zerzar 6y ago
we define focus time as 3+ hours of uninterrupted time chunks. If you already have less than 3 hours of free time during the day, we prefer to give you a break than to further stack meetings together.
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by zerzar 6y ago
Thanks @indigomm! The first permission is needed for us to book meeting rooms (not relevant in the current WFH environment, but historically what we have been doing) The second permission is just read & write on your calendars (since we
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by zerzar 6y ago
Google/MS can certainly add this feature (for enterprise accounts) but it would not be trivial. IME "next available" means urgent, and that was not true for 80% of my meetings at work. There were many times I booked a meeting
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by zerzar 6y ago
One way we try to solve this problem in our paid product is by prioritizing more urgent meetings (marked ASAP in our tool) and dynamically moving flexible ones (marked "This Week / Next Week / etc.") around if possible t
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by zerzar 6y ago
We currently look only at the logged in account, but we have been toying with the idea of looking at both your personal & work calendar -- especially during the current WFH times. Out of curiosity, how do you currently handle the case o
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by zerzar 6y ago
Our main business is improving utilization of physical meeting spaces (via the same scheduling product) - we are building out an E2E solution including meeting room tablet SW, guest check-in experiences & real estate planning analytics.
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by zerzar 6y ago
Thanks Jay!
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by zerzar 6y ago
Ah I see, is the use case for things like doctors appointments vs more repeated tasks like picking up kids from school?
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by zerzar 6y ago
Clockwise allows you to move existing meetings to maximize focus time for yourself (and possibly team if everyone is using it) We're a scheduling tool that helps you create meetings and optimize for focus time for everyone invited as w
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by zerzar 6y ago
Find a Time tries to find the most recent upcoming free slots and suggests them. We try to be smarter - by automatically picking the most productive time for everyone. This means picking a time where everyone's uninterrupted focus time
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by zerzar 6y ago
We let you set what times in the week you want to have meetings - no need to block off your calendar!
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by zerzar 6y ago
thanks for the heads up, noted!
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by zerzar 6y ago
One way we try to solve this problem is by prioritizing more urgent meetings (marked ASAP in our tool) and dynamically moving flexible ones around if possible to free up space. This is enabled by default on our paid version. Would that be u

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