Scheduling that
academics finish.
Defenses, proposals, talks, committee meetings, journal clubs. Set one up in three questions, invite anyone by email (they don't need an account), and see who's coming without chasing a single reply.
- Free during beta
- No account needed to be invited
- ORCID sign-in
PhD defense: Maria Chen
Guest lecture: protein folding at scale
Finding a time · 4 of 5 replied
Researchers from
The core primitive
Structured asks from verified researchers
Post one concrete need (a co-author, a PhD advisor, a grant co-PI) and the right people find it in a filterable feed. Choose who sees it: everyone, verified only, or specific invitees.
NSF co-PI for genomics ML proposal
Co-author for a sim2real review
Prospective PhD in comp neuro
How it works
Three questions. That's the whole form.
What are you scheduling?
A defense, a talk, a lab meeting. Tap one and we set sensible defaults for the rest, including who can see it.
When and where?
Pick a date, or propose a few times and let everyone mark what works. The winning slot becomes the event.
Who's coming?
Paste in email addresses: your committee, an external examiner, a whole cohort. They get an invite whether or not they've heard of us.
Why this exists
The hardest part of a defense is finding the hour.
Five academics, four calendars nobody else can see, one external examiner in another timezone, and a room that has to be booked before any of it is settled. It gets solved with a twenty-message email thread, and then it gets solved again when someone moves.
General-purpose event tools assume a public listing and a ticket. Academic scheduling is the opposite: a named handful of people, half of whom will never make an account for your software, and a date that has to survive being changed twice. So invitations here go to an email address, replies come back to one place, and when the time moves, everyone is told without you writing the email.
Also here
The rest of the network.
Under the events: a verified researcher directory, structured asks for co-authors and advisors, and a feed of new papers in your field. They're a tab away when you want them.
A verified directory
Researchers with an ORCID iD attached to a real publication record. Search by field, method, or institution.
Structured asks
Looking for a co-author, an advisor, a student, a grant co-PI? Post it in a form people can actually answer.
A feed of new work
New preprints and papers in the fields you follow, from the people you follow. Save what matters.
Verification that means something
ORCID or an institutional email. It's what keeps the inbox from drifting toward the spam dynamics of every other network.
Tour the demo
See how it feels from every tier.
Verification is the trust layer: ORCID gives full access, an institution email unlocks student flows, and anyone can browse. Tour the app as three different researchers to see exactly where the gates fall.
Dr. Maya Chen
PI · Stanford CS
Full access. Post any kind of ask. Send and receive intros under any category. Verified badge on profile.
- →Full feed (no banner)
- →All 4 ask types in 'Post an ask'
- →All 5 'Open to' categories
- →6 active inbox threads
Lucas Bauer
PhD candidate · ETH Zurich
Verified via .edu / .ac.* email. Can post PhD-search and collaboration asks. Sends + receives student intros only.
- →Institution-tier banner
- →Only 2 ask types available
- →Faculty intro categories greyed out
- →2 inbox threads
Kavya Patel
Industry researcher · Gmail
No verification at all. Can browse and respond to asks. Posting and sending intros are blocked with a clear nudge to verify.
- →Amber 'limited account' banner
- →'Post an ask' button hidden
- →Intro pages show the gate, not the form
- →2 inbox threads (responses she sent)
Demo data is read-only. Switch tiers any time from the banner.
Questions
The ones we actually get asked.
Do the people I invite need an account?
No. Invitations go to an email address. Your external examiner can RSVP, see the details, and get told when the time changes without ever creating a login. Accounts are for people who want a profile and a calendar of their own.
What does verification actually unlock?
Anyone can browse and create an event. ORCID verification gives you full access to the network side: posting any kind of ask, sending intros in any category, and a verified badge. An institutional email sits in between and unlocks the student flows.
What happens when the time moves?
You change it once. Everyone who was invited is emailed the new time, and the calendar entry they already added updates with it. The whole point is that you don't write that email.
Is it free?
Yes, throughout the beta. Scheduling is the part we intend to keep free, because it only works if the external examiner who'll never sign up can still be invited.
Can I use it on my phone?
Yes. It's built mobile-first and there are native iOS and Android apps wrapping the same experience. Most people create an event on a laptop and check who's coming on a phone.