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SCORE 6/1011/20 elements Audited 2026-08-06 · RXed table v1.0

Reclaim.ai

“AI calendar assistant that helps you plan, protect, and adapt your time” — the vendor’s own words

The June 2026 2.0 release turned a background calendar blocker into a real agent product with the best approval gate in its category: every AI write, including ones coming from ChatGPT or Claude, lands in Preview Mode before it touches your live calendar. Score it as a scheduling tool that got MCP right, not as an AI platform.

SMB toolProductivityAutomation & AgentsFreemium
Vendor
Reclaim.ai, Inc. (a Dropbox company) · reclaim.ai
Origin
US — Portland, OR (10115 NW Ash St., Portland, OR 97229, per the official DPA); founded 2019 by Henry Shapiro and Patrick Lightbody, acquired by Dropbox in August 2024
Pricing
Lite Free forever · Starter $10/seat/mo (annual) or $12/seat/mo (monthly) · Business $15/seat/mo (annual) or $18/seat/mo (monthly) · Enterprise $22/seat/mo, annual billing only
Users (official only)
More than 500,000 people across 60,000 companies active with Reclaim (source, 2026-08-06)
LiteFree forever1 user, 5 AI agents, 1 calendar sync, 1 scheduling link, 1-week scheduling range, limited integrations (Google Tasks, Slack, Zoom, Google Meet)
Starter$10/seat/mo (annual) or $12/seat/mo (monthly)Up to 10 seats, 10 AI agents/seat, 8-week scheduling range, 3 scheduling links, full task integrations (Todoist, Asana, ClickUp, Jira, Linear)
Business$15/seat/mo (annual) or $18/seat/mo (monthly)Up to 100 seats, 100 AI agents/seat, 12-week range, unlimited scheduling links and Smart Meetings, delegated access, webhooks, Team OOO Calendar
Enterprise$22/seat/mo, annual billing only100+ seats, unlimited agents, SSO and SCIM provisioning, domain capture, dedicated support

Two costs hide behind the seat price. Smart Meetings with three or more people consume Additional Users (attendees without a paid seat), sold in packs from $8/month on Starter to $18/month on Enterprise. And Enterprise is annual-only, so the monthly column simply says unavailable. Every new account gets a 14-day Business trial with no credit card, then downgrades to Lite. Discounts run 50% for education and 20% for nonprofits, startups, and switchers from Calendly, Clockwise or Motion.

checked 2026-08-06 · vendor pricing page

Element scores

Reactive
Retrieval & Memory
Orchestration
Validation
Models
Primitives
Pr5.5
Prompts
Em
Embeddings
Cx6
Context
Tr5.5
Tracing
Lg5
LLM
Compositions
Fc7
Function calling
Vx
Vector store
Rg5
RAG
Gr7.5
Guardrails
Mm
Multimodal
Deployment
Ag7.5
Agents
Ft
Fine-tuning
Fw5.5
Frameworks & harnesses
Ev
Evaluations
Sm
Small models
Emerging
Ma4
Multi-agent
Sy
Synthetic data
Pc8.5
Protocols
In
Interpretability
Th
Thinking models
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Strengths

Preview Mode is the design decision that matters. Every calendar write, whether it came from the in-app assistant, a manual drag, or ChatGPT and Claude over MCP, is staged in a sandbox where all enabled agents re-run so you can see the full cascade before anything reaches Google Calendar or Outlook. Protocol coverage is the widest in the category: a hosted MCP server at mcp.reclaim.ai with per-tool permissions, plus a native ChatGPT app with interactive calendar widgets. The free Lite plan is genuinely usable, and the background agents (Focus, Habits, Buffers, Smart Meetings, Defend Meeting Overload) do the one job the product promises: reschedule your own priorities when someone else's meeting lands on them.

Honest dings

The backing model is never named, there is no model choice, and no way to measure whether the assistant is answering well. Lite caps you at 1 calendar sync and a 1-week scheduling range, which is a demo, not a plan. Mobile is thin, an old complaint that 2.0 did not fix. Trustpilot sits at 2.3/5, with recurring reports of habits being dropped and confusion after the Dropbox rebrand, so the ratings floor is real even if the product improved. And the acquisition question stays open: Dropbox said no planned pricing or support changes 'anytime soon' in August 2024, and 'anytime soon' is not 'never'. Competitor Clockwise was shut down by Salesforce on 27/03/2026, which is why the question keeps getting asked.

Best for: Individuals and teams up to about 100 seats who already live in Google Calendar or Outlook, want their own priorities defended automatically, and want to drive their calendar from ChatGPT or Claude without letting an assistant silently rewrite their week.
Visit reclaim.ai Prices and details change — this passport is re-verified at least quarterly.

Sources

Every audit lists the research it rests on — transparency and traceability are the product. Tools evolve: each audit is a snapshot of its audit date, and re-audits supersede older versions (kept below for reference).

  • reclaim.ai/pricing — Official pricing page: Lite free, Starter $10, Business $15, Enterprise $22 per seat/month annual; monthly $12/$18/unavailable; agent counts 5/10/100/unlimited; Additional User pack pricing (accessed 2026-08-06)
  • help.reclaim.ai/en/articles/15280604-reclaim-2-0-faq — Official Reclaim 2.0 FAQ: AI Assistant, Planner, Preview Mode staging, Agents list (Habits, Buffers, Focus, Smart Meetings, Meeting Quality, Defend Meeting Overload), MCP support for ChatGPT/Claude/Copilot/Gemini, all MCP writes staged in Preview Mode (accessed 2026-08-06)
  • reclaim.ai/integrations/claude — Official Claude MCP integration page: connector URL mcp.reclaim.ai, OAuth flow, per-tool permissions (auto-approve / needs approval / block), read-only tools answer instantly while writes land in Preview Mode, works in Claude Desktop, web and Claude Code (accessed 2026-08-06)
  • reclaim.ai/integrations/chatgpt — Official ChatGPT app page: native app in the ChatGPT Apps marketplace, available on Plus/Team/Enterprise, admin pre-approval for tenant rollout, same Preview Mode gate (accessed 2026-08-06)
  • reclaim.ai/features/ai-assistant — Official AI Assistant feature page: human-in-the-loop approvals, claim of being the first ChatGPT app able to schedule meetings and modify calendars directly (accessed 2026-08-06)
  • reclaim.ai/security — Official security page: SOC 2, GDPR, CCPA and Data Privacy Framework certification, AES-256 at rest, AWS hosting, and the official user count of more than 500,000 people across 60,000 companies (accessed 2026-08-06)
  • reclaim.ai/subprocessors — Official sub-processor list: AI sub-processors supplying large language models and embeddings are opt-in only, with no customer data sent without consent. Confirms the backing model is third-party and unnamed (accessed 2026-08-06)
  • reclaim.ai/privacy — Official privacy policy: no use of personal, calendar or app data to train large language or generative models without separate explicit consent or opt-in (accessed 2026-08-06)
  • reclaim.ai/dpa — Official Data Processing Addendum: EU SCCs, Irish DPC as default supervisory authority, and the registered address 10115 NW Ash St., Portland, OR 97229 with Henry Shapiro as co-founder contact (accessed 2026-08-06)
  • help.reclaim.ai/en/articles/10008727-webhooks-for-s… — Official help doc: webhook events for Scheduling Link meetings, date-based API versioning (v2024-10-02), HMAC signature header for payload validation (accessed 2026-08-06)
  • reclaim.ai/blog/dropbox-acquires-reclaim — Official announcement, 20/08/2024: Dropbox acquisition, 'no planned changes to pricing or customer support anytime soon' (accessed 2026-08-06)
  • reclaim.ai/blog/clockwise-shutdown-news — Official Reclaim post, 19/03/2026, by co-founders Henry Shapiro and Patrick Lightbody, confirming competitor Clockwise shut down on 27/03/2026 (accessed 2026-08-06)
  • youtube.com/watch?v=TokNJhqviEA — Official Reclaim founders webinar, 11/06/2026, demoing Reclaim 2.0: agents, chat, ChatGPT and Claude MCP tools, Preview Mode, and co-founder Patrick Lightbody's own caveats about overlapping task-tool MCPs and Outlook notification storms (accessed 2026-08-06)
  • trustpilot.com/review/reclaim.ai — Independent review aggregate: 2.3/5 'Poor' rating, with recurring complaints about dropped habits, slowness, no mobile app, and confusion following the Dropbox rebrand (accessed 2026-08-06)
  • whataidoineed.com/tool/reclaim-ai — Independent 11/06/2026 review of the 2.0 release: preview-first model described as the differentiator, agent list, MCP client coverage, feature inventory (accessed 2026-08-06)
  • morgen.so/blog-posts/reclaim-pricing — Independent competitor pricing analysis (07/05/2026) corroborating the four-tier structure and the per-seat rates, and flagging that paid plans are priced for teams rather than solo users (accessed 2026-08-06)
  • pipeline.zoominfo.com/sales/reclaim-ai-review — Independent 2026 review corroborating plan limits, the 14-day Business trial with downgrade to Lite, and the education/nonprofit/startup/switcher discount tiers (accessed 2026-08-06)
  • workflowautomation.net/reviews/reclaim-ai — Independent eight-month hands-on review: founding date and Portland origin, $31M raised pre-acquisition, support response times, and the dependency-chain reliability caveat (accessed 2026-08-06)