Scheduling meetings at 10 person sales organizaton involved painful email chains: "What times work for you?" "I'm free Tuesday and Thursday." "Those don't work for me, how about Wednesday?" This back-and-forth could take days for a simple 30-minute meeting.
Outlook's built-in "Schedule Assistant" exists, but it's clunky:
- Requires opening Outlook and navigating multiple screens
- Can't easily filter to specific team members
- Doesn't export availability in a format you can paste into emails
- No timezone conversion for remote participants
- Slow to use repeatedly when scheduling multiple meetings
- Depends on users blocking all time, including travel & personal time
Real Pain Point: Our team was wasting 1-2 hours per meeting just coordinating schedules. With several meetings per week, that's 5+ hours of pure overhead.