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| Company | Calndr Inc. (ANCI AI) |
| Headquarters | Palo Alto, California |
| Founded | 2020, by Raj Lal (Founder & CEO); co-founder Lakshmi Chava |
| Product | ANCI — your assistant's AI scheduling agent |
| Who it's for | Executive assistants, meeting coordinators and the executives they support |
| Works with | Google Calendar, Outlook, Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams |
| Reach | 128 organizations in 49 countries use the company's scheduling products |
| Website | anciai.com |
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ANCI AI is an AI scheduling agent for executive assistants. Tell ANCI who needs to meet, and it finds the time, writes to the people outside your company, books when they answer and keeps the calendar clean — with nothing sent until the assistant says so.
ANCI AI, made by Calndr Inc. of Palo Alto, California, is an AI scheduling agent that works for executive assistants and the executives they support. The hardest meeting to set up is the one with someone outside your company: ANCI emails those guests the free times, reads their answers, handles the "how about Friday instead?" and books the meeting — on the assistant's calendar or the executive's. It works with Google Calendar and Outlook, adds Zoom, Google Meet or Microsoft Teams, and asks before anything is sent. Founded in 2020 by Raj Lal, its founder and CEO, the company's scheduling products are used by 128 organizations in 49 countries.
Most AI calendar tools work inside one company. The meeting that eats an assistant's week is the one with a client, investor or vendor elsewhere — weeks of back-and-forth. ANCI writes to those guests, reads their replies and books.
ANCI is built around the executive assistant: it does the coordination, the assistant keeps the judgment. Before ANCI writes to a guest or sends an invite, it shows what will happen and waits for the assistant's word.
Executive assistants send in the toughest scheduling puzzles they have solved — and see whether ANCI could solve them too. Entries close December 20, 2026; the grand prize is a $250 Amazon gift card. See the challenge →
Big-company assistants suggest; ANCI acts — it sends, follows up and books, and asks one clear question when it isn't sure. ANCI vs Copilot →
Raj Lal · Founder & CEO, Calndr Inc. (ANCI AI)
Raj had the idea in 2019 while working at Bill.com, after a morning staring at a calendar of meetings that had taken weeks of email to set up. He prototyped a fix, showed it to colleagues — including Lakshmi Chava, who became his co-founder — and quit a month later to build it full time. The company was founded in 2020.
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A 1 minute 46 second video of one request, start to finish.
Watch on YouTube →Play the executive assistant at a made-up company and give ANCI a real request.
Try it live — no setup →What ANCI does, step by step, and what it never does without asking.
How it works →Community Manager at MARL Accelerator (an investor in ANCI AI), working with startups from 50+ countries, cut her scheduling time from days to hours.
CEO of Valeria Klimova ESL, coordinates classes across five countries and saves her team hours every week.
CEO of Alpha B Group, manages more than 100 meetings a month.
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