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Clara Labs — An intelligent scheduling assistant you can trust
Clara Labs saves you time by scheduling your meetings for you. Simply cc Clara on your email conversations and it will do the rest.
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@adammarx13 excited to support you, Adam! Startup CEO, yes?
Feel free to email me, maran@claralabs.com, and I'll send you my Clara preferences. May help you think through how to get Clara to help you spend your time well as a startup founder.
If I can suggest *one* thing when you start with a trial - leave your conceptions about "bots" behind. Clara is not a bot; a bot is only a *fraction* of what we've designed here. Clara is as smart as a person... but 24/7, cheaper, and more reliable.
Clara was designed to manage the hundreds of tiny details every week that you may otherwise forget or not have time to do. Clara is a *much* more robust system than most people recognize on the outset... a problem we're trying to solve via better trial onboarding (a work in progress!).
For example:
- If you want travel time added to your meetings so you know how long it'll take to get somewhere?
- An additional 15 minute block in between meetings to cushion in case they run over?
- To block meetings in the afternoons so you have your mornings clear, unless you specify otherwise?
- To add your cell details to every conference call event description so there's always a back-up phone option?
Clara can do all of this, and loads more.
Just signed up for my free trial. Looks pretty cool. Any plans to support additional languages in the future? I'd be happy to help out with Spanish so I can use it down in Mexico =D
I've been using Clara for while now, and even stopped using x.ai (which was free at the time) because Clara was so much better. The only thing I wish she could do for me is predict my location and plan meetings accordingly, since I'm on the road a lot.
For example, some days I'm in Palo Alto, and some days in San Francisco. But I never want to do both because of the crazy travel time. So batch my meetings accordingly, based on the location of the person I'm meeting.
Also if my calendar says "Jake in NYC", she should recognize that everyone I'm meeting those days is in NY and should be scheduled on ET.
Any plans to implement something like this?
Even without this though, probably the biggest productivity enhancer I've used in the last few years! Keep the hits coming!
@iamjakestream expect more locations solutions to come your way, Jake! And thanks for the kind words.
Been using Clara for a few months, and I love it. Scheduling takes so much cognitive load; I love being able to just CC Clara. One of my favorite features is "code words"... you can make a code word like "quick meeting" => "do a phone call instead of in-person", so when you say "Let's have a quick talk", Clara magically knows your preference.
Definitely worth checking out!
I keep hearing about x.ai from friends but this looks great! I'll definitely give it a shot. Pricing is a bit steep, though! @marannelson
@davidsfeng please do give it a shot, and reach out to me - maran@claralabs.com. Would love to know about your experience and feedback!
Thanks David.
Congrats @marannelson…really loving this product. It's understanding some pretty complex requests seamlessly, and dealing with ambiguity on locations, etc like a BOSS. Unfortunately it's just out of my price range…would love to see a Bootstrappin' plan :D
@adcooley thanks Austin! email me? maran@claralabs.com -- would love to talk more about your use-case.
I've been using Clara for about six months to schedule sales calls and have noticed a dramatic improvement in speed and ability to handle interactions with human warmth. It's (She's?) awesome!
@joshuaweiner thank you kindly! We're actually putting together sales-specific case studies now. One of the big boosts our customers see when they start with Clara is the ability to close a lot more meetings..
As we scale up, Clara's response times get faster and Clara learns to handle challenging cases more elegantly. It's a win-win -- as we have more customers, everyone gets a faster and smarter Clara.
I am searching for this but as an entrepreneur restarting my life after trauma, this price tag makes the journey seem much harder. Anyone have other suggestions?
Hi Corley - thanks for the congrats! Definitely.
Firstly, we love being here. PH has really cataloged Clara’s growth over the last two years... our team has grown, our customer base has grown, and *finally* we can introduce the machine learning platform we’ve spent all our time building. Dubbed “Exo”, it is the technology that pairs human intelligence with machine predictions.
Exo has allowed us to work through our backlog of waitlist customers and we are excited to open up and scale Clara for all. Now you can sign up for Clara and get started today -- claralabs.com.
Exo has enabled:
- What we call "Cooperative Intelligence" https://blog.claralabs.com/coope...
- Clara to compose millions of emails at near-perfect accuracy, scheduling meetings on behalf of hundreds of thousands of people.
- Clara Remote Assistants, the contractors who make sure scheduling emails are human and accurate, to become 2.5x more efficient in the last six months.
- Hyper-responsiveness: days, nights, and weekends alike, Clara’s average response time is under 1 hour.
We're incredibly excited to bring Clara's service to more people. As a user myself, it has truly changed my life for the better.
@ourielohayon That's what I wanna know, seems like the same product at first glance?
@rubencodes @ourielohayon Hi there! Good questions; thanks for asking them.
On the backend, Clara is really in a class of its own.
From day one, Clara was designed to fall back on “humans in the loop” wherever needed. A huge amount of resource has gone into building our machine learning platform Exo, and scaling what we refer to as "Cooperative Intelligence". The investments we made would’ve been wildly different if we’d, instead, designed aiming for “fully AI, ASAP”.
The integrity and magic of Clara is in elegantly managing the edge-cases a bot couldn’t. Trusting work this complex and important to a company really gunning for full AI is, in our experience, a huge risk.
Our customers mean everything to us. We've spent years scaling with near-perfect accuracy. Clara will ensure your scheduling is handled as reliably as you need it to be, full stop.
If you want to get into the nitty-gritty, see more here: https://blog.claralabs.com/coope...
I love the idea of this, I have gone through Doddle, Calendly and Hubpot Meetings, all fall short in the automation front. However, $200 a month is too rich for someone who wants to simplify scheduling. Any chance of getting down to a sub $100 tariff?
As a business plan, I can't see the scalability of this at is current service and price point. Cost vs Time is always an interesting conversation however at $2400 per year many businesses will be thinking they might invest elsewhere. Would be interested in understanding the future business model and target market in more detail.
Cool product. I tried it out but ultimately had to drop it because it was tough changing preferences via AI. I understand scheduling via AI but preferences are better set through a UI in my opinion. You want settings set quickly and confirmed immediately. If I recall correctly, you email them in, and there is a long delay while the AI processes. Then you have to keep emailing AI asking what your preferences are but often they just haven't taken effect yet.
@jodyglidden we actually just shipped Clara's first traditional GUI dashboard - a screenshot is above! Today it includes status updates of everything we're managing, but preferences editors are shipping soon.
Thanks for adding your thoughts, and feel free to email me maran@claralabs.com if you need anything.
Would love to try this, price point's a bit high though. Plans to expand beyond scheduling?
@rotemthegolfer Rotem I love this GIF. That said: really, try Clara. If you have even 8 meetings a week, you're spending half an hour a day coordinating them without even noticing.
Bigger than the time savings? Clara gives you *peace of mind* because you start doing your job better. Things you "should've" done but forgot to do? "Add my phone number just in case to the event description", "Include details about the parking garage nearby", "Actually follow up when you tell me to 'follow up in a week!'" -- they all just start happening. And you don't drop the ball.
Clara is an indispensable partner to *people managers*.
@marannelson I understand the benefits here but I think you should have a plan for startups. 200$ a month is a lot!
@hellorocketman Thanks kindly! It's the work of the marvelous and talented Tuhin Kumar.
Cool! I'm looking for a good option. How are you measuring accuracy rates, and what is it?
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