CLIPSE

Name

CLIPSE

Legal name

Clipse, Inc.

Website

https://clipse.us

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Salt Lake City

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, Infrastructure, Operations

Revenue model

1. Active User Subscription: Primary revenue stream at $15 per active user per month. Users are billed only when their availability was checked by an external partner that month—no activity means no charge. Free to start with no credit card required.
2. SDK Per-Connected-User: Usage-based pricing for SDK integration at $0.10–$0.50 per connected user per month. Includes unlimited API calls, priority email support, and React Native SDK for mobile apps.
3. Freemium Core Tier: Free tier allows organizations to connect calendars and share availability with partners without charge. Generates revenue from active users whose availability is checked by external partners. Freemium model drives adoption and network effects.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

CLIPSE sells a privacy-safe cross-company scheduling platform that synchronizes calendar availability between organizations without exposing event titles, attendees, or descriptions. The product is delivered as native add-ins inside Google Calendar and Microsoft Outlook, as an embeddable JavaScript/TypeScript SDK for third-party applications, and as an MCP endpoint that AI agents can call to find mutual availability. Revenue is generated via per-active-user subscriptions and per-connected-user SDK pricing, with a free tier available to drive network adoption.

Product overview

Clipse is a cross-company scheduling infrastructure that consists of the core Clipse platform (a privacy-safe availability layer native inside Outlook and Google Calendar), the Clipse SDK for developers to embed mutual availability into any application, and an MCP endpoint enabling AI agents to schedule across organizational boundaries. The platform reads only busy/free/tentative status — never event titles, attendees, or descriptions — and stores zero calendar data. NIST 800-53 approved for financial services environments.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Clipse (Core Platform) Privacy-safe cross-company scheduling infrastructure that connects any calendar, any company, and any AI agent — without exposing calendar events. Reads only busy/free/tentative status in real time. Zero calendar data stored. NIST 800-53 approved. Native inside Outlook and Google Calendar, callable by AI agents via MCP.
• Clipse SDK (@clipse/sdk) JavaScript/TypeScript SDK that enables developers to embed mutual availability scheduling into any application. Supports React Native for mobile. Authenticates users via Google or Outlook OAuth (read-only) and returns available time windows without storing calendar data. Distributed via npm.
• MCP (Model Context Protocol) Endpoint Native MCP endpoint allowing AI assistants such as Claude and Copilot to call clipse.findMutualAvailability() for cross-organization scheduling. Returns mutual availability windows without exposing calendar content, event details, or attendee lists.

Quantifiable outcome

• 10X ROI on scheduling efficiency
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration6 records

AI capability3 records

Feature7 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Supernova FinancialcoreTechnology or IntegrationTrusted partner in the Clipse Partner Network. Represents a financial services organization using Clipse for cross-company scheduling with mutual trust relationships established.
• Leader BankcoreTechnology or IntegrationMutual access granted in the Clipse Partner Network. Banking organization using Clipse for cross-company scheduling with explicit two-way consent.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Calendly: Calendly is the dominant one-way scheduling tool that Clipse explicitly compares against. Both serve cross-organization meeting scheduling, but Calendly is link-based and one-directional, while Clipse offers real-time mutual availability across companies — making them the closest direct substitute.
• Doodle: Doodle is a polling-based scheduling tool referenced directly in Clipse's comparison table. Both target cross-company meeting coordination, but Doodle relies on manual polling rather than real-time mutual availability, positioning it as a direct competitor in the same category.
• SavvyCal: SavvyCal is a scheduling tool that emphasizes mutual availability and calendar overlay features, overlapping directly with Clipse's value proposition. Both target professionals who need to reduce back-and-forth in cross-organization meeting coordination, with SavvyCal positioning as a more visual alternative to Calendly.

Broad incumbents

• Microsoft FindTime: FindTime is Microsoft's polling-based scheduling add-in for Outlook that Clipse explicitly compares against. As part of the Microsoft 365 suite, it bundles scheduling into existing enterprise contracts, making it a broad incumbent that Clipse must displace within Outlook shops.
• Zoom Scheduler: Zoom Scheduler (formerly Zoom Scheduling) bundles meeting scheduling into the broader Zoom collaboration platform. Listed as a "Coming Soon" integration for Clipse, it represents an incumbent bundling threat where the scheduling feature comes bundled with video conferencing at no marginal cost.

Emerging players

• Reclaim.ai: Reclaim.ai is an AI-powered calendar and scheduling tool that overlaps with Clipse on intelligent time-coordination use cases. Both target productivity-focused teams and integrate with Google Calendar/Outlook, though Reclaim focuses on internal calendar automation while Clipse specializes in cross-organization availability.
• Clockwise: Clockwise is an AI calendar optimization platform for teams that integrates with Google Calendar and Outlook. While Clipse focuses on cross-company availability and Clockwise on internal team scheduling, both compete for the same enterprise productivity buyer evaluating calendar add-ins.
• x.ai (now Breeze by Salesforce): x.ai offered AI-powered scheduling assistants that competed in the same cross-company scheduling category. Both Clipse and x.ai leverage AI for scheduling automation, though Clipse's MCP-native approach for cross-org availability is structurally different from x.ai's human-in-the-loop assistant model.
• Cron (Notion Calendar): Cron, now Notion Calendar, is a modern calendar app that integrates scheduling into the Notion productivity stack. As Notion is listed as a "Coming Soon" integration for Clipse, Cron represents an emerging platform player that could either become a partner or a competitor depending on how cross-org scheduling features evolve.
• Clara Labs: Clara Labs provides AI-driven scheduling assistants that handle cross-company meeting coordination through natural language. Both Clipse and Clara target the same pain point of enterprise scheduling friction, with Clara taking a human-supervised AI assistant approach and Clipse offering API/MCP-native programmatic availability.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/ClipseCal
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/clipse

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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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