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ANCI AI · Release 3.0

How ANCI AI Works

ANCI AI is an AI scheduling agent that works the way a great executive assistant does. Connect your calendar, ask for what you need, and it handles the rest: inside your company, outside it, and across time zones.

ANCI AI connected to Google Calendar, Outlook, Gmail and your team
Get started

Three steps to your first meeting

Setup takes a few minutes, and you can start scheduling straight away.

1

Connect your calendar

Sign in with Google or Microsoft and connect Google Calendar or Outlook. There’s no new password to remember, and your company’s sign-in rules protect ANCI AI too.

ANCI AI checking calendars
2

Meet your people

ANCI AI builds your list from the meetings you already have: teammates, clients, vendors and candidates. If you manage an executive’s calendar, tell it whose, and it works on theirs as well.

Your contacts in ANCI AI
3

Ask for what you need

Type or say it, the way you’d ask a colleague. ANCI AI works out who, when and where, checks every calendar, and shows you exactly what it will do.

YouFind 30 minutes with Dan at Acme next week
Behind the scenes

What happens after you ask

  1. Reads your request

    Who’s invited, how long, which day, and where: a Zoom, a Teams call, a phone call or a room.

  2. Checks every calendar

    A time has to be free for everyone on the invite and inside everyone’s working day, on their own clock.

  3. Shows you a card

    Who, when, where, whose calendar, and who is free. Nothing happens yet.

  4. Waits for your yes

    One reply books it. If something is unclear, like which John you mean, it asks first.

  5. Books it, or writes to them

    Teammates get the invite. Guests outside your company get a short email with a few times to choose from.

  6. Follows through

    It reads guest replies, books the time they pick, nudges quiet guests if you want it to, and keeps everyone updated when plans change.

ANCI Chat
Find 30 minutes with Dan at Acme next week
Dan is outside your company, so I’ll email him. These times are free for you: 1 — Tue 10:00am 2 — Wed 2:30pm 3 — Thu 11:00am EMAIL — send Dan these times?
email
✓ Sent. I’ll tell you when Dan replies.
Dan: The second one works for me.
✓ Booked: Wed 2:30–3:00pm with Dan Whitfield (Acme). The invite is on both calendars.

An example conversation. Dan’s reply arrives by email.

What you can ask

One assistant for every kind of meeting

Schedule with people outside your company

ANCI AI emails clients, vendors and candidates, handles the back-and-forth, and books when they reply.

YouSet up a call with Tom in London on Thursday

Find time with anyone

Teammates, groups and whole teams, across time zones. You get a short menu of real options.

YouFind an hour with the sales team tomorrow afternoon

Schedule for your executive

Book, move and cancel on a calendar shared with you, in your executive’s name.

YouMove Sarah’s 2pm to Thursday

Reschedule, cancel or swap

Name the meeting the way you’d say it. ANCI AI finds it, shows it to you, then changes it.

YouSwap my 10am and my 2pm

Repeating meetings and blocks

One series on your calendar, not a pile of copies.

YouBlock 12 to 1 every weekday for lunch

Answer calendar questions

Your day, your week, your free time, or what happened with a request.

YouWhen am I free tomorrow?
Works with

The tools you already use

ANCI AI reads and writes your existing calendar, so meetings show up where they always have.

Google CalendarOutlook & Microsoft 365Gmail & Outlook emailZoomMicrosoft Teams meetingsPhone calls
Trust

You stay in control

Nothing happens without your yes

Every booking, change and email to a guest is shown to you first.

It asks, it doesn’t guess

Two Johns, a possible typo in an address, or 7am versus 7pm: ANCI AI asks.

Sign in the way your company does

Google or Microsoft sign-in, with your company’s two-step verification and rules.

Questions

Good to know

What is ANCI AI?

ANCI AI is an AI scheduling agent that works like a great executive assistant. It finds time across calendars and time zones, schedules with people inside and outside your company, and never books, moves or sends anything without your yes.

How does ANCI AI schedule with people outside my company?

It can’t see their calendars, so it emails them a few times that work for your side, reads their reply and books the time they choose. If they suggest another time, it checks your calendar and asks you once.

Does ANCI AI book meetings without asking?

No. It shows you exactly what it will do and waits for your OK. You can choose to skip confirmation for teammates, but warnings are always shown.

What are Team Booking Links?

A Team Booking Link is one link for your whole team. Share it by email or embed it on your website, and guests pick a time when the team is free. Every person also has a personal booking link.

Which calendars does ANCI AI work with?

Google Calendar and Outlook / Microsoft 365, with Zoom, Microsoft Teams and phone calls as meeting locations.

What happened to Zara AI?

Zara AI is now ANCI AI. Same scheduling engine, rebuilt for Release 3.0 with scheduling outside your company, scheduling for executives, and a new app.

Give ANCI AI your next meeting

Start with someone outside your company and watch it handle the back-and-forth.