Last updated: 2026-08-19
Founded in 2016, Clockwise is an AI scheduling assistant that runs a daily optimization pass across a whole team's calendars, automatically rearranging flexible internal meetings to protect blocks of uninterrupted focus time. It syncs with Google Calendar, Microsoft Outlook, and Slack, but only reschedules meetings between people inside the same organization.
About Clockwise
Clockwise was founded in 2016 and has raised $76M in a Series C led by Coatue, with participation from Atlassian Ventures, Accel, Greylock, and Bain Capital Ventures. The platform pairs a proprietary scheduling optimization engine with Prism, a natural-language AI assistant, to analyze calendar permutations across a team and automatically rearrange flexible internal meetings into protected blocks of focus time. It integrates with Google Calendar, Microsoft Outlook (beta), Slack, and Zoom, syncing changes in real time as schedules shift through the week.
Clockwise is used by more than 40,000 organizations, including Netflix, Twitter, Uber, Atlassian, and Asana, and has rescheduled more than 23 million meetings to create over 8 million hours of protected focus time. It only reschedules meetings where every attendee is internal, so its value scales with how many people across an organization adopt it; individual or partial use delivers a smaller benefit. Salesforce has since bought the company, and the product exits the market later in 2026.
Pricing
Free plan at $0 (unlimited users, lunch/travel holds, personal calendar sync, Slack integration). 75/user/month billed annually (flexible meeting rescheduling, focus time automation, group scheduling, team analytics). 50/user/month (enhanced analytics, admin controls, data export).
Enterprise is custom-priced and adds SCIM provisioning and advanced security. Paid plans bill annually only; there is no monthly option.
| Tier | Monthly price | What it includes |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | Per-organization, unlimited users |
| Enterprise | Free | Custom pricing, per-user annual billing |
| Teams | $6.75/mo | Per-user per month, billed annually |
| Business | $11.50/mo | Per-user per month, billed annually |
Key Features
- Intelligent Meeting Optimization: Analyzes up to 1 million calendar permutations daily per team to identify optimal meeting times and automatically rearrange flexible meetings to minimize disruption
- Focus Time Automation: Automatically creates and protects blocks of uninterrupted time (2+ hours) for deep work, adjusting dynamically as calendar changes occur throughout the week
- Prism AI Conversational Scheduling: Natural language scheduling assistant that interprets plain English requests like 'move all my 1:1s to later this week' and executes the change directly
- Team Analytics & Insights: Provides organization-wide metrics on focus time created, meetings moved, and meeting load by role, enabling data-driven scheduling decisions
- Cross-Calendar Coordination: Coordinates schedules across Google Calendar and Outlook (beta) with real-time Slack status updates so attendees see changes as they happen
- Flexible Meeting Management: Marks meetings as 'flexible' to indicate reschedulability; Clockwise respects fixed meetings and external attendee constraints while optimizing internal scheduling
Pros
- Teams that adopt it report getting 4-6 hours of protected focus time back per week
- Free tier supports unlimited users with lunch/travel holds, personal calendar sync, and Slack status integration
- Cheapest paid tier of the major AI schedulers, undercutting rivals like Reclaim AI and Motion
- Real-time Slack status sync keeps teammates aware the moment a meeting gets moved
- Team-wide adoption compounds the benefit: the more of an org on Clockwise, the more meetings it can shuffle
Cons
- Cannot reschedule external meetings; if your calendar is full of client or vendor calls, it has little to offer
- Works best only once most of the team has adopted it; a lone holdout gets little value
- No task-manager integrations remain live: the old Asana connection was discontinued and there is no Jira, Linear, or ClickUp link
- Microsoft Outlook support is still in beta, with fewer features than the Google Calendar version
- Being discontinued: existing users will need to migrate to another scheduler before it shuts down in 2026
Data Handling
- Compliance
- Privacy-focused by default; supports SSO and SCIM on Enterprise tier; does not sell data to LLM training
Frequently Asked Questions
How much does Clockwise cost in 2026?
Clockwise has a free plan at $0. The Teams plan is $6.75 per user per month billed annually and adds flexible meeting rescheduling, focus time automation, and team analytics. Business costs $11.50 per user per month with enhanced analytics and admin controls, and Enterprise is custom-priced for SCIM and advanced security. All paid plans bill annually; there is no monthly option.
Is Clockwise free to use?
Yes. The free plan supports unlimited users and includes lunch and travel holds, personal calendar sync, and Slack integration. It does not include flexible meeting rescheduling, automated focus time creation, or team analytics, which require a paid plan.
What are the best alternatives to Clockwise?
Reclaim AI is Clockwise's official migration partner and offers switchers a price-match guarantee. Motion adds built-in task and project management alongside scheduling. SkedPal is a better fit if you're scheduling your own to-do list rather than optimizing meetings across a team.
How does Clockwise compare to Reclaim AI in 2026?
Both auto-schedule focus time and reroute flexible meetings, but Clockwise cannot touch meetings with people outside your organization, while Reclaim adds deeper task and project-management integrations. With Clockwise shutting down, Reclaim is positioned as the closest like-for-like replacement for teams that relied on automatic rescheduling.
Is Clockwise shutting down in 2026?
Yes. Salesforce acquired Clockwise and the product will be discontinued on March 27, 2026. Clockwise has partnered with Reclaim AI to ease the migration, including a 100% price match guarantee for switching customers for 12 months.
Top Alternatives
- Motion: Pick Motion if you want built-in task and project management alongside AI scheduling, not just meeting optimization.
- Reclaim.ai: Pick Reclaim AI if you want a scheduler that outlives Clockwise's 2026 shutdown, with a price-match migration deal.
- SkedPal: Pick SkedPal if you want an AI to fill a personal to-do list into open calendar slots, not to coordinate a whole team's meetings.
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