Clockwise

What Clockwise does

Clockwise was an AI-powered Time Orchestration platform founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Francisco. The company built a calendar management solution that automatically optimized team schedules, protected focus time, and rescheduled meetings to better times based on availability and team preferences. Its core product processed structured calendar data, including events, schedules, time blocks, and meeting preferences, using optimization algorithms and process automation to address the "shared time" problem in the modern workplace. Proprietary features included Focus Time management, Smart Hold events (Travel Time, Meeting Breaks, Personal Calendar sync), Automatic Meeting Rescheduling, and Flexible Meetings. The platform integrated with Google Calendar and Outlook and was listed as an integration within the Asana marketplace.

Clockwise operated on a subscription-based SaaS revenue model with annual plans and distributed through a hybrid go-to-market combining enterprise field sales with product-led growth. Self-serve features such as Smart Holds, Focus Time blocks, and Scheduling Links enabled individual user and team adoption. The platform served 40,000 organizations including notable enterprise customers Netflix, Uber, Atlassian, Twitter, Asana, Etsy, HubSpot, Plaid, Kickstarter, Reddit, Amplitude, Instacart, DigitalOcean, and SeatGeek. At scale, Clockwise reported creating over 8 million hours of Focus Time and rescheduling 23 million meetings. The company raised approximately $76 million in total venture funding, with the largest round being a $45 million Series C in January 2022 led by Coatue with participation from Atlassian Ventures and existing investors including Accel, Bain Capital Ventures, Greylock, and Salesforce Ventures.

In March 2026, Salesforce acqui-hired the entire Clockwise team, including co-founders Matt Martin and Gary Lerhaupt, into its Agentforce AI division. The transaction was structured as a personnel acquisition rather than a purchase of the operating business. Clockwise's product was discontinued on March 27, 2026, with user data scheduled for deletion and prepaid subscription customers receiving prorated refunds. The company partnered with Reclaim to facilitate migration for displaced customers.

Name

Clockwise

Legal name

Clockwise

Website

https://getclockwise.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Acquired

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Clockwise was an AI-powered time orchestration platform that automatically optimized team schedules, protected focus time, and rescheduled meetings for 40,000 organizations including Netflix, Uber, and Atlassian. Salesforce acqui-hired the team for Agentforce in March 2026, and the product was discontinued.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Calendar Management Software

NAICS

Office Administrative Services (5611)

SIC

Computer & Office Equipment (3570)

akta.pro primary industry

Workforce Management & Scheduling (BPACAPAI)

akta.pro secondary industries

Time, Attendance & Scheduling Administration (BPACAIAE), Email, Calendar & Scheduling (BPAMAMAC)

Keywords

• Calendar management software
• Time orchestration platform
• AI scheduling assistant
• Meeting optimization tools
• Focus time automation

Headquarters

HQ city

San Francisco

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Subscription-based SaaS: Clockwise operated on a subscription revenue model with annual plans. The company offered prorated refunds for prepaid subscriptions extending past the March 27, 2026 shutdown date.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Clockwise was an AI-powered Time Orchestration platform that optimized team schedules by automatically creating Focus Time blocks, rescheduling meetings to better times based on availability and team preferences, and managing Smart Hold events such as Travel Time and Meeting Breaks. The platform served enterprise teams and individual professionals looking to reduce meeting overload and protect deep work time through AI-driven calendar management.

Product overview

Clockwise was a unified AI-powered Time Orchestration platform focused on calendar management and team scheduling optimization. The single core product offered features including automatic Focus Time creation, meeting rescheduling, Smart Holds (for Travel Time, Meeting Breaks, Personal Calendar sync), Flexible Meetings, and Clockwise Scheduling Links for external meeting booking. The platform served enterprise customers including Netflix, Twitter, Uber, Atlassian, and others, processing over 8 million hours of Focus Time created and 23 million meetings rescheduled before the product was discontinued on March 27, 2026 following the acqui-hire of its team by Salesforce.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Clockwise (Core Platform) An AI-powered Time Orchestration platform that optimizes team schedules by automatically creating Focus Time blocks, rescheduling meetings to better times based on calendar availability and preferences, and managing Smart Hold events such as Travel Time, Meeting Breaks, and Personal Calendar sync. Targeted at enterprise teams and individual professionals to reduce meeting overload. The product was discontinued on March 27, 2026 following the acqui-hire of the Clockwise team by Salesforce.

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 8 million hours of Focus Time created for users
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers13 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

AI capability3 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• ReclaimminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerFollowing Clockwise's shutdown announcement, the company partnered with Reclaim to recommend it as an alternative for customers. Reclaim offered 100% price match guarantee for migrating teams, priority migration support, dedicated onboarding webinars, and enterprise onboarding assistance.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Doodle: Doodle is a scheduling and meeting coordination tool with group polling and booking pages. It addresses the same shared-time problem Clockwise targeted, especially for cross-company meeting coordination.
• Calendly: Calendly is a leading scheduling links and meeting booking platform serving enterprise teams. It overlaps with Clockwise Scheduling Links and the team meeting coordination use case, with a much larger installed base.
• Motion: Motion is an AI-powered calendar and task management platform that auto-schedules work blocks and meetings. It competes directly with Clockwise's Focus Time and automatic meeting rescheduling capabilities.
• Reclaim.ai: Reclaim is the most direct peer — an AI calendar and scheduling platform offering Focus Time, Habits, Smart Meetings, and scheduling links. Clockwise formally partnered with Reclaim to migrate customers at shutdown, confirming category and feature parity.

Emerging players

• Vimcal: Vimcal is an AI calendar app focused on time blocking and scheduling speed for power users. It overlaps with Clockwise's calendar optimization and flexible meeting features for a similar knowledge worker audience.
• Trevor AI: Trevor AI offers AI-driven daily planning and task-to-calendar scheduling for individuals and teams. It overlaps with Clockwise's focus-time and task-blocking features but focuses more on individual productivity.

Others

• Salesforce (Agentforce): Salesforce is now the acquirer of Clockwise's team via the Agentforce division. It is included as an ecosystem participant because the Clockwise team's scheduling expertise is being deployed inside Salesforce's agentic platform, making Salesforce both a downstream channel and a competitive endpoint for the capability.

Broad incumbents

• Microsoft Outlook: Outlook is the dominant enterprise calendar and email platform and increasingly includes AI-powered scheduling and focus time features via Copilot. Clockwise integrated with Outlook and competed against its native capabilities.
• Microsoft Bookings: Microsoft Bookings is part of Microsoft 365 and provides scheduling and booking for businesses. It is bundled with Outlook, putting direct pricing and distribution pressure on standalone scheduling tools like Clockwise.
• Google Calendar: Google Calendar is the default calendar for many of Clockwise's enterprise customers and increasingly embeds AI scheduling and focus time features directly, representing a structural bundling threat to any third-party scheduling layer.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/getclockwise
• Facebookfacebook.com/getclockwise
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/clockwise-inc.

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds4 records

Investors9 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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