Salesforce snaps up the team who built calendar app Clockwise to work on Agentforce
Just the team, not the tech
Salesforce's Agentforce team is getting an infusion of new talent by hiring the team behind Clockwise, a calendar scheduling app, but the app itself isn't sticking around.
“We will be bringing our deep expertise building reliable, agentic software to the Agentic Enterprise,” Clockwise CEO and cofounder Matt Martin said in a LinkedIn post. “Now for the sad part: as part of this transition, the Clockwise services will be going away.”
Clockwise said that, as of March 27, it will no longer be available.
In a statement to The Register, Salesforce said it was not buying Clockwise or its technology.
“I want to clarify that this was not an acquisition,” a spokesperson said in an email. “Salesforce is not acquiring Clockwise or its technology. We look forward to welcoming members of the Clockwise team to Salesforce, where they will join the Agentforce team.”
It appears that the Clockwise team will be joining a Salesforce organization led by Gary Lerhaupt, who along with Martin cofounded Clockwise. Martin also previously worked for Salesforce as a software engineer between 2014 and 2016 before leaving to cofound Clockwise in 2016.
The Register has reached out to Martin and Lerhaupt directly on LinkedIn but neither has responded.
Lerhaupt left Clockwise last year and, in a comment on his farewell post, stated that he was going “into the great wide open,” which turned out to be a desk at Salesforce HQ, where he is vice president of product architecture for Agentforce.
Lerhaupt posted a welcome message to his new colleagues on LinkedIn.
“In a twist maybe only Silicon Valley could write, this crew is joining Salesforce,” he said of Clockwise’s employees. “More specifically, they're joining my charter to build Agent Interoperability and Orchestration within Agentforce. I couldn't be more excited to build the future of AI alongside them again!”
Martin is also apparently joining that team as well, with one Salesforce engineer telling him “Welcome back to the Mothership – see you at onboarding” on LinkedIn and Martin replying “See you soon!”
As for the Clockwise product, it is recommending users transfer to rival scheduler Reclaim, as the Clockwise product and services will soon disappear and all data is being deleted. Clockwise said Reclaim is offering price matching for all migrating Clockwise customers.
On Clockwise’ FAQ page, it said Salesforce will not have access to users' data.
The company is working on refunding customers who have prepaid for services past March 27.
“Smart Hold events created by Clockwise (such as Focus Time, Travel Time, Meeting Breaks, and Personal Calendar synced events) will be removed from your calendar. Flexible Meetings will stop moving and the green Clockwise sparkle will be removed.” ®