Aimful augments Google Calendar to protect your time from bad meetings: — ask the host to specify why you are needed — ask invitees to confirm in advance that they come prepared — collect topics before each recurring meeting
Hey team,
congrats on the launch! 🥳
Can we use Aimful to run better meetings with our customers and prospects or is it just for an internal company communication?
As an asynchronous and almost no-meetings company we do our meetings well (I believe), but when it comes to working with our customers who do not have the same mindset and often come unprepared, they don't read the prepared notes and then we spend most of the time reading it out loud. 🥲 Can Aimful help us with this?
Hey @sotak 👋, thank you!
Aimful is for all the meetings in your calendar, even when you're invited by your customer or prospect. We are using set of one-click actions that makes the meeting really valuable for all the attendees.
e.g. You can politely ask the meeting host what contribution they need from you so you can come prepared for the meeting.
@sotak We send a notification to external invitees as well so they can view all the actions and use the web-based UI to perform all the actions, like see what is required (though that part is also copied into the meeting description) and confirm that they have gone through the preparation - that way you know, even before the meeting starts, if they have done it.
Hey PH community 👋
I’m Dan Co-founder & Product Owner of Aimful. We are excited with the whole team (shoutout to @veronika_gabrielova@honzakral@jiri_janousek) to announce launch of Aimful.io for Google Calendar
❓Why are we building Aimful
Calendar apps haven't evolved for decades. Especially the meeting invites. All recent innovations are about keyboard shortcuts + smart scheduling + time zone support.
🤔 However, nobody seems to ask:
— what should be the results of the meeting?
— is it necessary for you specifically to attend?
— what is the expected contribution from you?
— is meeting the best format to reach what is needed?
Why doesn’t your calendar autonomously ask the host to answer these questions, if the meeting invite is poorly prepared?
Instead of building a new calendar (which we would love to do!), we decided to start with augmenting an existing one.
4️⃣ Versions later…
We have already killed 4 previous versions. They were invaluable, they taught us about the hidden workings of meetings that are rarely talked about. Each time we took the lessons learned and produced a new version.
🙏 We're hungry for honest feedback
Help us shape the product. Help us design the product around you.
Special thanks to @kevin for hunting us!
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