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Guides·19 October 2026·5 min read

What Whenn does with your calendar — the full picture

Calendar access is sensitive, and the permission names Microsoft and Google show users are sometimes broader than what's actually used. Here is exactly what Whenn reads, what it doesn't, and how the data is handled.

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Guides·12 October 2026·4 min read

How to schedule a conference panel prep call with Whenn

Four speakers across four timezones, a moderator, and a 45-minute window. Here's exactly what a conference producer does in Whenn — from creating the meeting to receiving the confirmation.

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Guides·5 October 2026·5 min read

How AutoWhenn decides what "best" means

A slot where everyone is technically free at 6:30am is not the same as a slot at 2pm. AutoWhenn knows the difference. Here's how it scores and ranks candidates to find the time that works best — not just the time that works.

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Guides·28 September 2026·4 min read

The client kickoff scheduling problem

A client kickoff is the first meeting of an engagement. It's also often the first real test of how much back-and-forth that engagement will involve — because scheduling across two organisations, before any work has started, follows a pattern that most agency teams know well.

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Guides·21 September 2026·4 min read

Why Microsoft 365 sometimes requires IT approval for calendar connections

Microsoft 365 Business and Enterprise accounts include controls that govern how employees connect to third-party applications. If you've seen an 'approval required' screen when trying to connect your calendar to Whenn, here's what's happening and what to do next.

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Guides·14 September 2026·3 min read

Your Whenn invitation: a step-by-step guide

If someone has sent you a Whenn meeting invitation and you're not sure what to do, this guide walks through every step — from the email you received to the calendar invite you'll get when the meeting is confirmed.

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Guides·7 September 2026·3 min read

What connecting your calendar to Whenn actually means

When you connect your calendar to Whenn, one specific category of data is shared: free/busy information. Here is exactly what that means, what it doesn't include, and how access works.

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Guides·3 September 2026·3 min read

Why participants respond faster when you use Whenn

Calendar connection is a 30-second action. A polling grid is not. Here's why the difference matters for how quickly meetings confirm.

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Guides·31 August 2026·4 min read

Scheduling across Google Calendar and Outlook

Mixed calendar platforms shouldn't complicate group scheduling. Here's how Whenn handles Google Calendar and Outlook users in the same meeting.

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Guides·27 August 2026·4 min read

Scheduling panel interviews: the coordination problem recruiters know too well

Panel interview scheduling is one of the most time-consuming parts of the hiring process. Here's why, and what changes when the availability gathering is automated.

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Guides·24 August 2026·4 min read

Why group scheduling is harder than 1:1 booking — and why that matters for the tools you use

Booking links solve a different problem. Group scheduling across organisations requires something fundamentally different.

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Guides·17 August 2026·5 min read

External group meetings: a practical guide for event producers

Event producers spend more time coordinating meetings than almost anyone. Here's a practical breakdown of the problem and what actually helps.

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Stories·12 August 2026·5 min read

"The tools just weren't built for this": Aaron Rawcliffe on building Whenn

How a recurring scheduling problem at a conference company turned into a product.

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Perspective·8 August 2026·4 min read

The real cost of coordinating group meetings

The back-and-forth of external meeting scheduling has a cost that almost nobody accounts for.

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Guides·6 August 2026·4 min read

How to stop chasing meeting availability

Chasing availability responses is the most common source of delay in external meeting scheduling. Here's why it happens and what removes it.

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Guides·5 August 2026·3 min read

Why automatic meeting confirmation is different from finding a time

Finding a time and confirming a meeting are two different steps. Most tools only do the first one.

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Guides·5 August 2026·3 min read

How Whenn works: a visual guide to every stage

A step-by-step visual walkthrough of how Whenn takes a meeting from invitation to confirmed calendar invite.

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Perspective·5 August 2026·3 min read

Why do we still accept this as normal?

The process of scheduling a group meeting across organisations is broken. We've just stopped noticing.

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Stories·1 August 2026·5 min read

What I learned building a scheduling tool while still doing the job it's meant to fix

Building Whenn while working as a conference producer — what that taught me about the problem.

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Guides·22 July 2026·4 min read

How to coordinate meetings across timezones without losing your mind

Cross-timezone group scheduling compounds every coordination problem. Here's what actually helps.

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Perspective·14 July 2026·4 min read

Why external group meeting scheduling still runs on email

External group meeting scheduling defaults to email chains because the tools that exist weren't designed for it.

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Stories·7 July 2026·4 min read

Conference speaker scheduling: the coordination problem nobody talks about

Getting speakers on calls before an event is one of the most time-consuming tasks in event production. Here's why.

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