Articles from Calendly

For most professionals, meetings move business forward, but the busywork around meetings can slow work down. The call summaries, action items, and follow-up takes time that disproportionately falls on professionals whose work runs on meetings. Calendly, trusted by millions to simplify meeting complexity, built two tools to fix that. Calendly today announced Callie™ (beta), an AI assistant, and Calendly Notetaker, forming a suite of AI tools designed to remove the friction – and frustration – surrounding meeting scheduling and busywork, achieving an end-to-end meeting workflow.

Calendly, the world’s most popular scheduling automation platform for businesses of all sizes, today announced an integration with LinkedIn to more seamlessly allow Premium Business subscribers to book meetings directly from their profile with the “Book an Appointment” button. The enhanced integration enables small businesses, solopreneurs, and other professionals to easily sign up for Calendly directly within LinkedIn, allowing them to grow their relationships and businesses more efficiently.

Calendly, the only centralized scheduling automation platform built for scaling across the organization, today released its second annual report, The State of Meetings. It uncovers how internal and external meetings shape productivity, decision-making, and collaboration across industries, roles and generations, and outlines strategies for making meetings more effective in today’s hybrid work environment.

Calendly, the platform helping individuals and teams schedule more productive external meetings and achieve faster business growth, today announced increased interest in scheduling automation from the professional services industry. In April 2024, the company saw a 34% year-over-year increase in professional services signups.

Calendly, the only centralized scheduling automation platform built for scaling across the organization, today announced a new web browser extension to help customers work smarter and more efficiently. Customers can instantly book their next meeting or make changes to one already scheduled, schedule a meeting on behalf of others, and keep track of meeting contacts–all from wherever they’re already working online.

Calendly, helping individuals and teams schedule more productive external meetings and achieve faster business growth, today announced strong customer momentum from the financial services sector, reporting a 73% increase in financial services ARR in the second half of 2023 compared to the first half. Organizations like CI Assante Wealth Management, Mercer Advisors, Leader Bank, Buckingham Wealth Partners, The Federal Savings Bank, and Churchill Mortgage are using Calendly to deliver more seamless, personalized scheduling experiences and increase team efficiency.

Calendly, the only centralized scheduling automation platform built for scaling across the organization, today announced the appointment of Jigar Desai as its Chief Technology Officer. Desai brings more than 25 years of experience leading product and engineering teams at startups and global tech companies. He will lead the engineering, quality assurance, and security teams, as well as shape Calendly’s product roadmap.

Calendly, the only centralized scheduling automation platform built for scaling across the organization, today released its inaugural State of Scheduling Report. The analysis explores how workers manage their time, along with habits and attitudes towards meetings and their impact on productivity, performance, and relationships as AI and hybrid work become more widely adopted. Inefficient scheduling is curbing productivity as 1 in 4 workers spend 3 - 4 hours a week – or half a work day – scheduling meetings alone. HR professionals are faring worse, spending the equivalent of four weeks a year scheduling meetings.

Calendly, the only centralized scheduling automation platform built for scaling across the organization, today revealed findings from a newly commissioned Total Economic Impact (TEI) study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Calendly that found customers achieved a 318% ROI and $687,000 in total net benefits over three years by using its technology. The Forrester study found Calendly greatly improves customer satisfaction and retention rates, hiring cycles, cost savings, team productivity, and other key business metrics tied to performance for external teams within the enterprise.

Calendly, the only centralized scheduling automation platform built for scaling across the organization, today announced its momentum in the enterprise with new key growth metrics, customer logos and expansions, and product capabilities. Adoption of Calendly for Enterprise grew 61% year over year in July, with 86% of the Fortune 500 and 14 of the top 15 Fortune 500 financial companies using Calendly as more organizations realize the value of scheduling automation. Customers spending greater than $50,000 on Calendly grew 400% year over year in June.

Calendly, the only centralized scheduling automation platform built for scaling across the organization, today announced the appointment of Stephen Hsu as Chief Product Officer. Hsu will lead the execution of Calendly’s product roadmap and strategy to build purposeful scheduling solutions for departments and industries. He’ll oversee the product management, growth, and user experience teams to serve solopreneurs to the world’s largest organizations with end-to-end scheduling automation.

Calendly, the modern scheduling platform for high-performing teams and individuals, today announced Calendly Routing, a new solution built to empower sales and marketing teams to qualify, route, and schedule meetings with high-value leads and customers instantly from their company’s website. The new solution integrates with Marketo, HubSpot, and Salesforce to help sales, marketing, and customer success teams close deals faster using the essential industry tools within their tech stacks.

Calendly, the modern scheduling platform for high-performing teams and individuals, today announced the appointment of Jessica Gilmartin as Chief Marketing Officer, reporting to Founder and Chief Executive Officer Tope Awotona. Gilmartin brings decades of B2B and B2C marketing experience to Calendly to help drive adoption across sales, marketing, customer success, recruiting, and other high revenue-generating teams within mid-market and enterprise companies.

Calendly, the modern scheduling platform for high-performing teams and individuals, today announced the appointment of Adam Blitzer, COO of leading observability platform Datadog, to its Board of Directors. Blitzer joins Tope Awotona, founder and CEO of Calendly, and venture capital investors David Cummings and Blake Bartlett to help Calendly provide teams and organizations with a one-stop shop for external scheduling.

Calendly, the modern scheduling platform for high-performing teams and individuals, today announced the launch of Calendly Analytics, an intuitive reporting dashboard that allows team leaders to easily discover activity and trends — such as popular meeting days, top performers, and in-demand meeting types — to optimize scheduling and reach team goals faster. Through data-driven scheduling insights, revenue teams can accelerate pipeline, convert leads, speed up the sales cycle, improve customer retention, and drive more revenue.

Calendly, the modern scheduling platform for high-performing teams and individuals, today announced the acquisition of Prelude, a fast-growing recruiting operations platform designed to build an efficient and delightful hiring process. With this acquisition, recruiting teams and hiring leaders will optimize scheduling for interviewers and candidates, ultimately allowing the top SMB to enterprise companies to achieve their talent acquisition goals. The addition of Prelude means that Calendly can accelerate its ambition to deliver deeper solutions for enterprise teams and organizations, serving as the one-stop shop for external scheduling.

Calendly, the modern scheduling platform for high-performing teams and individuals, today announced the appointment of John McCauley as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). McCauley is a veteran finance leader who has spent his career scaling financial operations for global businesses and ushering them through exponential growth. He brings nearly two decades of B2B financial and strategic experience to his new role as Calendly experiences rapid adoption across sales, marketing, customer success, recruiting, and other high revenue-generating teams and companies.

Calendly, the modern scheduling platform for high-performing teams and individuals, today released Calendly Routing Forms, an automation feature that helps teams be more productive and provide a customer-centric scheduling experience through their organization’s website or via a link. Calendly Routing Forms use screening questions and routing logic to make it simple and efficient for teams to automate evaluating prospect and customer needs before routing them to a specific booking page to schedule a meeting.

Calendly, the modern scheduling platform for high-performing teams and individuals, today announced a new Developer Portal allowing customers and partners to embed, build, and integrate custom applications through the company’s suite of APIs. The portal gives developers access to tutorials, sample code, developer guides, and API references to easily integrate Calendly’s scheduling functionality into their software and improve productivity.

As part of its vision to offer workers more meeting tools to conveniently connect and collaborate, Calendly, the modern scheduling platform for high-performing teams and individuals, today introduced Meeting Polls, a new all-in-one tool giving users the ability to poll and vote on preferred meeting times. Users can poll attendees outside or within their organization to easily identify the most popular time to meet while accommodating personal preferences and time zones when scheduling with three or more people.