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BraveDay vs Clockwise
Clockwise optimizes a team's calendar for focus time. BraveDay protects focus too - but asks before it acts, works across every calendar, and also does booking links and team scheduling.
Clockwise is a calendar optimizer for teams: it shuffles flexible meetings to create shared focus time and syncs status to Slack. For a Google-and-Slack company chasing more deep-work hours, it's clever.
BraveDay shares the focus-protection instinct but takes a confirm-first approach - Beaver proposes, you approve - and it isn't Google-only. It's also a full scheduling tool: booking pages, team round-robin, routing and polls, which Clockwise doesn't do.
What Clockwise does well
Clockwise's automatic focus-time optimization across a whole team's calendars, plus its smart meeting-moving and Slack status sync, is genuinely useful for large Google Workspace orgs trying to claw back concentration time.
| BraveDay | Clockwise | |
|---|---|---|
| Focus / deep-work protection | Yes | Yes (core) |
| Approach | Confirm-first - you approve moves | Auto-moves flexible meetings |
| Calendars supported | Google, Outlook, Apple, ICS | Google (Outlook limited) |
| Booking links (let others book you) | Yes | No |
| Team round-robin & routing | Weighted, built in | No |
| Running-late overflow alerts | Yes | No |
| Conversational AI assistant | Beaver - chat, confirm-first | Rules-based automation |
| Clients, stock & POS | Native modules | None |
| Run it on your own server | Built and deployed for you | Cloud only |
Why teams pick BraveDay
It asks before it moves things
Clockwise auto-shuffles flexible meetings to make focus time. Beaver proposes focus blocks and reschedules and waits for your OK - no surprise calendar changes.
Scheduling, not just optimization
BraveDay also lets people book you and runs team round-robin, routing forms and polls. Clockwise optimizes your existing calendar; it doesn't take bookings.
Every calendar, and open
Focus protection works across Google, Outlook and Apple, and the whole platform can be deployed on your own server. Clockwise is Google-centric and cloud-only.
Choose Clockwise if
You're a large Google Workspace org that wants automatic, team-wide focus-time optimization and Slack status sync, and you don't need booking links.
Choose BraveDay if
You want focus protection that asks first, across every calendar, plus booking pages and team scheduling in one platform you can also run on your own server.
Questions
Does BraveDay protect focus time like Clockwise?
Yes - Beaver finds and holds deep-work time and adds running-late alerts. The difference is it proposes and you confirm, rather than automatically moving your meetings.
Can BraveDay take bookings? Clockwise can't.
Yes - booking pages, team round-robin, routing and group polls are all built in, alongside focus protection.