Productivity platform ClickUp launched a revamped calendar tool that integrates tasks, docs, chats, and meetings in one place. The most interesting features of the calendar are an integrated AI meeting notetaker and AI-powered time blocking for tasks.
ClickUp already had a calendar product, but it was focused more on team management and scheduling. Last year, the a16z- and Tiger Global-backed company acquired calendar startup Hypercal. It is now using parts of that acquisition in the new calendar product.
The company is now focusing on personal productivity in the workplace by putting tasks at the forefront. Users can add tasks in a queue and have the calendar automatically block time slots for them based on their schedule. The calendar can also dynamically adjust due dates based on schedule and priority level changes. Alternatively, users can also drag and drop tasks in the calendar view manually and change pre-assigned priority level.
ClickUp is also introducing an AI-powered notetaker that joins your meetings — just like Read AI, Zoom’s AI assistant, Circleback, Granola, or Otter. The company said that, apart from taking structured notes and transcribing the meeting, it can also automatically assign action items and tasks to your teammates. In a survey conducted by the company, 71% of respondents said they would be comfortable in sending a proxy or an AI assistant to a meeting on their behalf.
ClickUp’s founder and CEO Zeb Evans told TechCrunch that the company trains its AI tool to pick up different signals from a person’s integrations (such as a GitHub assignee) and tune the prioritization algorithm accordingly.
What’s more, there is an AI assistant that can answer questions about tasks, documents, schedule, and meeting notes and transcripts. Plus, you can schedule a meeting by describing it to the AI assistant as well.
ClickUp is trying to be an all-in-one productivity platform for users. It already had task management and project management. Now, it is throwing in meeting note-taking and AI-powered scheduling. Other platforms are also trying to expand their offerings in the productivity space to become more useful to individual workers. Earlier this week, Read AI introduced a search copilot to let users search across meeting notes, Google Drive, One Drive, calendar, Microsoft Teams, Gmail, Salesforce, Jira, and more. Atlassian’s Trello, which mostly focused on project management, introduced new features for personal task organization last month.
Evans said that the company focuses on converging all these tools in one place, and that gives the company an advantage over specialized tools.
“I believe that all software in a few years will converge, and this is what we believe when we started ClickUp. We think that work management and collaboration communication categories would converge together, and that’s how our product is built. There is no separate app within our product. It’s all one thing,” he said.
