
The calendar assistant moved 23 million meetings and made 8 million hours of room for deep work. Now that its team has joined Salesforce and the service is gone, its best ideas - and its sharpest limits - are worth a proper postmortem.

Dust turns scattered company context into shared AI work - useful for teams ready to build repeatable agents, provided they watch the credit meter and keep humans in the loop.
The Denver software company wants to collapse chat, tasks, files, notes and AI into one calmer place. The hard part is persuading teams that another workspace is the cure for too many workspaces.
Optiverse is a Swiss AI meeting platform that turns everyday conversations into structured, actionable work. Its assistant, OptiAgent, transcribes meetings, writes custom summaries, extracts action items, pushes updates into CRMs, and makes past calls searchable across a company. Founded in Zurich in 2024 by researchers from ETH Zurich, EPFL, MIT and HSG, the company positions itself as the 'digital brain of the enterprise' and reports supporting over 1,000 companies while emphasizing Swiss-hosted, privacy-first data handling.