Why I built meet_.

Hi — I'm Harry. Quick version of how this started.

A friend and I wanted to meet. He sent me his Calendly link. I gave it to my AI assistant and said "find a time and book it."

It spat the dummy. Couldn't navigate the Calendly UI. Came back with the agent equivalent of a shrug.

And I just thought — that's bonkers. You know? We've got AI agents that can read PDFs, write code, plan trips, draft contracts. The thing they can't do is the most mechanical, decision-light task in my week — pick a slot and book it.

I had a look around for something that did it properly. Couldn't find anything. So I built it. Mainly because it sounded like fun, and I was already paying for the AI subscription anyway, so it was low risk.

That's meet_.

Then I started onboarding the alpha group, and the thing shifted.

One of the early users — call him a typical case, because he turned out to be far from the only one — runs a few businesses across a few time zones. We hooked up his calendar and he had a fistful of Google accounts. Flights most weeks. A dev team in another country. The kind of life that makes a normal calendar grid laugh.

We spent about a cup of tea's worth of time on setup. meet_pulled his flights, worked out airport buffers, added recovery time after the red-eyes, and produced a printable 90-day itinerary. Once. Doesn't need to be asked again.

That was the moment I realised it isn't a scheduling tool. Every tool I'd looked at assumes you've got one calendar. One neat grid. One life. Plenty of people don't — founders, parents, anyone juggling a few things at once. What they actually want is something more like a PA. One that learns how they work, defends their time, and doesn't need to be asked twice.

That's where meet_ is heading.

A couple of things on what it won't do, while we're here. It won't sell your calendar data, and we don't train on it. It won't book over your boundaries, even if someone important asks. It won't pretend to be you in conversations you should be having yourself. And I'm really trying to avoid adding another grid to the internet.

On me — I've been doing product for a long time, mostly at scale, mostly in places where the operational complexity was the actual problem. Senior product roles at OVO, HSBC, Just Eat and lastminute.com over the years, plus a handful of startups before that.

Mostly I love building, and I'm deep into AI. meet_ is something I use every day — I built it for me first, and now I want other people to get the same out of it. More on the LinkedIn if you're curious.

If you want to talk, I read every email — harry@getmeet.ai. Or, since meet_ is good at this bit: grab 15 minutes.

— Harry
Founder, meet_ · Haiven Technologies Ltd