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Clockwise is an AI calendar scheduling tool that automatically moves your flexible meetings to create blocks of uninterrupted focus time. Connect it to Google Calendar, tell it which meetings are moveable and which are fixed, set your focus time preferences, and it continuously optimizes your calendar behind the scenes β protecting your deep work hours while still fitting in the meetings that need to happen.
The 'Flexible Meetings' feature is the core innovation: when you mark a meeting as flexible, Clockwise treats it as a puzzle piece that can move within a window (say, sometime Tuesday) to minimize fragmentation across the team's calendars. For teams using Clockwise together, it coordinates across everyone's calendars simultaneously to find meeting times that fragment the fewest people's focus time. This collective optimization is genuinely hard to do manually.
Clockwise is most powerful in team environments where most members are using it β the coordination benefits compound with adoption. As a solo tool, it's still useful for creating personal focus blocks and getting AI scheduling suggestions, but the magic is in the collective optimization. It integrates with Slack (showing focus time status) and Asana/Linear for task-aware scheduling. The main limitation is it only works with Google Calendar β Outlook users need to look elsewhere.
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