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App Aims to Cut Down Meeting Scheduling Emails

  • Wired, Monday, January 12, 2015 5:55 PM
Executives Dennis Mortensen and Alex Poon were looking for a way to make scheduling meetings via email more effective. So they created the X.ai system, a virtual personal assistant that comes with its own email address. The tool, which is currently in beta, is accessible through an app. Rather than having the user involved in a thread of multiple emails, the virtual assistant uses data to determine availability and schedule meetings and helps the user clean up their inbox for more important messages.

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