Cadence.
Scheduling

Meetings that book themselves.

Most scheduling is a pile of emails asking which day works. Cadence has three ways to skip them: a booking link for open hours, a poll for a group, and an approved proposal for outreach. All three put the result on your calendar, and none needs the other person to have an account.

Illustration: a quiet meeting room with a round table and a ring of empty chairs under a pendant lamp glowing cool teal.

Openings: a link for your open hours

An opening is a booking link with rules.

  • Weekly windows, such as Mondays and Wednesdays from 1:00 to 3:00 in the afternoon, in the time zone you choose.
  • A meeting length, buffer time before and after, a minimum notice, how many days ahead people can book, and an optional limit per day.
  • Open slots are computed against your busy time on the calendars you pick, minus bookings already made, with the buffers applied.
  • An opening can be active, paused, or expired. A paused one shows no slots.
The Scheduling page on the Openings tab, listing booking links for office hours, board briefings, and a paused new hire chat with their lengths and status.The Scheduling page on the Openings tab, listing booking links for office hours, board briefings, and a paused new hire chat with their lengths and status.
Openings: three booking links, one paused.

What the invitee sees

  1. Open the link

    A public page at a link ending in the opening's name lists the free slots. No account or sign-in.

  2. Pick a slot

    The invitee chooses a time, then adds a name, an email address, and optional notes.

  3. Done

    Cadence records the booking and, when the opening names a calendar, creates the event on it. The page does not send a confirmation email yet.

Public endpoints are rate limited per address.

Proposals: a poll for a group

Offer several candidate times and share one link. Each person votes yes, no, or if needed on every option from a public page.

When you pick the winner, the proposal is finalized and, when it names a calendar, Cadence creates the event with the yes voters listed in its notes.

The Scheduling page on the Proposals tab, listing an open time poll for a board dinner and a finalized planning lunch, each with a voting link.The Scheduling page on the Proposals tab, listing an open time poll for a board dinner and a finalized planning lunch, each with a voting link.
Proposals: one open poll and one finalized.

Outreach proposals for Beacon

A stricter flow for scheduling that another fleet tool starts on someone's behalf.

Delivery to a provider calendar is tracked as an operation with retries and a clear failed or uncertain state, and the Outreach operations tab on the Scheduling page shows it.

Preview, then approve
Beacon asks Cadence for a proposal and gets a proof. The proposal is tied to a content hash, so an approval for one wording cannot activate a different one.
Checked again at the last moment
Before it goes live Cadence rechecks every proposed window against your busy events. A conflict returns a new preview that needs a new approval.
Hold, then confirm
An invitee picks a window from a private link. The window is held for a short time, and nothing is booked until they confirm.
Reschedule and cancel
The invitee can respond, move the meeting to a replacement window, or cancel. Each change is a versioned step that rechecks the calendar.

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Contact

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