Imagine this: you're a service provider. A solopreneur. Maybe a consultant, therapist, coach, or freelancer. You live by your calendar—your time is your inventory.
You’ve got a slick booking page set up through Cal.com (or something similar). It syncs to your Google Calendar. Clients can book open slots. Life seems sorted.
Until it isn’t.
The problem nobody solves
A prospective client doesn't use your booking page. Instead, they send you a Teams invite. Or a Google Meet. Or maybe it’s an ICS file. You accept it. It appears on your calendar.
But Cal?
Cal doesn’t notice.
It keeps showing that slot as “available”—even though it’s now booked.
Unless you remember to manually block that time on your Cal interface, someone else might double-book it. You’re forced into reactive mode—racing to plug calendar holes before someone else stumbles into them.
The reality: availability isn’t one source
Modern time management is fragmented. Your “true” availability spans:
Google Calendar
Apple Calendar
Outlook (especially for enterprise users)
External invites accepted via email
Native platform events (Calendly, Cal, etc.)
Most scheduling tools treat themselves as the source of truth. They’re not. They’re just one input in a messy system.
Enter Sync
Sync is a smart calendar layer that finally solves the availability blind spot.
It connects to all your calendars—Google, Apple, Outlook—and actually reads them. In real time—for action.
When it sees that a slot has been taken—whether by Cal, a Teams invite, or a spontaneous calendar entry—it does one of two things:
Auto-closes the slot on your booking tool
Prompts you: “Hey, this time is booked. Want me to block it everywhere else?”
Simple. Quiet. Intelligent.
Sync isn't another scheduling platform
It doesn’t need to be. Let Cal do bookings. Let Apple handle native events. Let Outlook do what it does.
Sync lives in the background. A layer. An invisible traffic controller ensuring that your availability stays real, consistent, and clean—across platforms, devices, and time zones.
Why this matters
If your calendar is your storefront, then Sync is your availability firewall.
It protects your time inventory—especially when you’re juggling multiple clients, devices, or contexts. It prevents double bookings. It reduces stress. It stops you from waking up to “Can we still meet today at 2?” when someone already blocked that out.
Could Cal.com build this?
Maybe. But it doesn’t exist yet.
And if it does someday, let this be a reference that Sync thought it through.
Until then, this is one product idea that’s asking to be built—or borrowed.