[hobofan]

How does this compare to solutions like e.g. Clara[0] that have been around for a decade?

A lot of similar solutions came up in the early chatbot era, when Facebook published Ducking and it became trivial to parse dates from natural language. I also looked into building such a product in the time, but ultimately found it hard to find an entry to the market: Most people that actually need something like this do have secretaries (who will also schedule a lot of other things in regards to the meeting) and most other people that have a less severe form of that problem rarely want to actually pay for such a product.

[0]: https://claralabs.com

[skorisep]

Great question! We have a lot of friends in the b2c space. What Vela is designed for is the subset of scheduling where nothing in the market works, specifically for businesses. Think a staffing firm coordinating across candidates, clients, recruiters, and client development to schedule interviews/meetings. Or another one doing 1,000+ interviews a week, wrangling across phone, SMS, and email. These are scenarios where companies tried every tool out there and eventually just did it themselves because tools couldn't meet their customers where they are and didn't handle the workflows/behaviors of their industries.