Kayak Co-founder Takes On Calendly With New Supercal Scheduling Platform

Kayak co-founder Paul English is backmost pinch a caller venture—this time, he’s taking connected Calendly. The entrepreneur has launched Supercal, a free scheduling level that’s designed to make booking meetings much businesslike and simple.

Supercal was calved retired of English’s individual acquisition pinch nan challenges of booking meetings. As a personnel of 8 boards of directors, English says he and others often struggled to coordinate schedules. He past group retired to create an email strategy for booking group meetings and to situation Calendly by building a akin instrumentality that offered akin functionality, but for free.

“Instead of having nan constricted type of Calendly aliases nan paid version, which is $12 a month, group tin get each those features and much for free astatine Supercal,” English told TechCrunch successful an interview. 

With Supercal’s group scheduling feature, you tin email a group of group and CC nan service’s AI, which sounds everyone’s calendars, finds a clip that useful for all, books nan meeting, and replies to nan email thread pinch nan details.

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Supercal lets you sync up to six calendars, truthful you tin support work, personal, and different schedules successful 1 place. It offers 8 different gathering types, including 15-minute, 30-minute, and 60-minute slots, arsenic good arsenic a VIP gathering type that provides afloat entree to your almanac for important situations.

There are besides breakfast, lunch, coffee, and meal gathering types. In nan future, these gathering types will characteristic an Open Table integration that will let you to book a gathering astatine a edifice aliases java shop, English says. 

Supercal includes further features for illustration pre-meeting discourse forms, automatic impermanent clip area detection, reminders, and prebuilt templates to thief you enactment organized.

While SuperCal is free to use, English and nan squad scheme to grow nan work pinch premium features that users tin unlock done a subscription, each while keeping nan existent features free.

“One of nan things we’re really willing successful agelong word is not conscionable mounting up nan meeting, but besides helping you make judge your meetings are really impactful,” English said. 

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For example, if you’ve group up a transcription work for your meetings, SuperCal could supply feedback connected really nan gathering went. This could see insights for illustration you said excessively accelerated astatine 150 words per minute, your measurement was excessively low, aliases you utilized excessively galore filler words. The extremity down this would beryllium to thief coach users to go much effective speakers successful meetings. 

Additionally, English sees SuperCal arsenic yet being capable to thief users trim down connected meetings and make them much impactful. 

He says that successful nan future, Supercal will beryllium capable to thief make meetings much businesslike by doing things for illustration providing feedback connected whether immoderate action items aliases decisions were made. Plus, it will beryllium capable to place meetings that person debased information and small progress, and propose that they whitethorn nary longer beryllium necessary.

Supercal is disposable connected nan web. The institution says it plans to research browser and email plugins, arsenic good arsenic iOS and Android apps, successful nan future.