Skej review: pricing, features and limits of the AI scheduling assistant

Published by 3Gen Internet Corporation, maker of OpenAssistant, Skej and AGNT. Comparisons use public documentation, without hands-on testing.

Verdict: Skej is a good fit if you schedule many outside meetings from email threads. You cc an assistant, and it proposes times, follows up and sends the invite, from $15 per user per month on annual billing. It is a poor fit for inbound sales routing, CRM sync, payments and focus time, and we say where to go instead.

We make Skej. Every claim links to Skej’s own site or help center, we list the limits Skej’s own pages state, and we name competitors where they are better. We rate Skej against our rubric in words, with no numeric scores.

What Skej is

Skej is an AI scheduling assistant you add to email threads. You cc an assistant, such as lexy@skej.com or the default skej@skej.com, and it reads the thread, checks your calendar, proposes times, handles the replies, follows up, and sends the invite (Skej, Skej quick start).

It also includes:

• A booking link with built-in chat.
• Control by text and WhatsApp.
• A forward-to-calendar feature for invites, flights and screenshots.

Skej’s marketing says it is “100% AI” with “NO HUMANS IN THE LOOP” and that “No Skej employees ever read your emails or meeting details” (Skej, Skej for sales). Its AI and data policy is narrower: access to customer data is “restricted to authorized personnel and permitted only when necessary for customer support, troubleshooting, security, or legal compliance” (Skej AI and data policy). Skej is made by 3Gen Internet Corporation in New York and has processed millions of meetings.

Pricing

Per user per month, from Skej pricing and the plans help article.

Trial. New accounts start on a 7-day Premium trial. It ends after 7 days or 3 booked meetings, whichever comes first, then the account drops to Free.

Refunds. Skej says “Refunds for unused time are not issued” for removed team members (Skej plans help). Cancelling mid-term means no refund (Skej pricing FAQ).

How it compares on price:

• Calendly. Its AI email assistant, Callie, needs Standard Plus at $18 per seat per month on annual billing (Calendly pricing).
• Howie. Team starts at $25 a month in credits (Howie).
• Blockit. Lite is $83 a month on annual billing (Blockit pricing).
• Skej. For one person who books more than a handful of meetings a month, Pro has the lowest flat per-user price among the assistants you cc with no published meeting cap, on the pricing pages read for this article. For light use, Blockit’s free plan includes its email agent for 15 meetings a month (Blockit pricing), and Sarra’s Silver plan matches Skej’s $15 for 20 meetings a month (Sarra pricing). For a team, compare Skej’s per-user price with Howie’s shared credit pool. For a plain booking link, Calendly Standard ($10) and Reclaim’s free plan are cheaper (Reclaim pricing).

What it does

The email assistant (Pro and up)

• Scheduling. You write your request in the thread (“Skej, can you find us 30 minutes next week?”) and it replies with options from your calendar. It manages the back-and-forth until a time is confirmed (Skej quick start).
• Languages. It supports “over 100 languages.”
• Changes after booking.
  • Reply in the thread or email Skej directly to reschedule, cancel or change details.
  • It can edit title, duration, location, attendees and description.
  • For reschedules it proposes new times and asks attendees to confirm, then updates the invite (Skej rescheduling help).
• Follow-ups. You choose the wait (for example 2 days, 3 days or a week) and how many reminders. Skej tells you if there’s still no reply after the last one (Skej follow-ups help).
• Personalities. You can choose from a dozen named assistants with different tones, or create your own on Premium (Skej).

Booking links

Guests on a Skej link can:

• Pick a time.
• Chat with the assistant.
• Upload a screenshot of their own calendar.
• Paste their own Calendly link.
• Connect their calendar to find mutual time.

They can reschedule or cancel by replying to the confirmation email (Skej booking link help). Each link can have its own duration, buffers, availability and custom URL (Skej link setup help).

Booking into other people’s Calendly links

Skej can read a contact’s Calendly link and book the meeting from your calendar. It works with Calendly links only (Skej Calendly help).

Autobook for teams

When teammates use Skej, it can book internal meetings instantly from everyone’s calendars, “with any number of people,” as long as they’re all on your team. With external Skej users it proposes times for them to confirm. Non-users get a “connect your calendar” link (Skej Autobook help).

Text and WhatsApp

• Text and WhatsApp. On paid plans you can text or WhatsApp Skej to schedule, move or cancel meetings, check your day, or tell attendees you’re running late (Skej text and WhatsApp help).

Add anything to your calendar

Forward an email, text a photo or send a voice note, and Skej adds the event and invites anyone you name (Skej add to calendar).

Calendars and settings

• Calendars. Google and Outlook. Connect as many calendar accounts as you like, and pick which calendars count for conflicts (Skej calendar integrations, Skej availability help).
• Working hours and buffers.
  • Working hours by day.
  • Buffers from 5 minutes to 2 hours, either between every meeting or after long blocks.
  • Daily meeting caps.
  • Holidays (Skej buffers help, Skej pricing).
• Multiple email addresses. These can have different calendars and availability rules (Skej calendar integrations).
• Unsupervised mode (Premium). Skej BCCs you on its first reply and then leaves you off the thread (Skej unsupervised mode). By default it CCs you on everything.

Limits and weak spots

Skej publishes a candid “best practices and boundaries” page (Skej boundaries). Combined with its other docs, here is what you should know:

1. You can’t change settings by email. “Skej doesn’t modify scheduling preferences based on conversational requests.” If you write “never book me on Fridays,” it applies to that meeting only, “even if the assistant confirms the change.” Lasting rules go in settings or the Instructions and Memories page. Howie, by contrast, says you can update standing preferences by emailing or texting it (Howie docs).
2. No priorities or bumping. Skej “does not prioritize one contact over another,” doesn’t bump lower-priority meetings, and doesn’t reshuffle your calendar. It asks you. Some competitors advertise this. Clara, for example, lists “priority contacts” among its preferences (Clara).
3. No relationship memory. Skej “Does not track VIP status” and “only stores timezone and required scheduling metadata.”
4. Time zones need a heads-up. “If meeting participants are in different time zones, inform your assistant. Otherwise, proposed times may work for you but inconvenience others” (Skej quick start). Calendly’s link detects the invitee’s time zone automatically (Calendly time zones).
5. The host must be on the thread. If someone emails the assistant asking to meet you without copying you, Skej won’t respond.
6. Text and WhatsApp are one-to-one. No group texts or WhatsApp groups. External meetings requested by text get coordinated by email.
7. No CRM, ATS, payments or routing. None of these appear on Skej’s site. Sales and recruiting teams that need records written back to Salesforce, HubSpot or an ATS should look elsewhere.
8. No focus time. Buffers and daily caps are the closest feature. Reclaim is built for focus time (Reclaim pricing).
9. Free plan has no assistant. The trial is short: 7 days or 3 meetings.
10. Custom instructions are unpredictable at first. Skej says they “may not behave perfectly initially,” and rules about one person can affect other meetings, so try them on low-stakes meetings before relying on them.

Security and privacy

• Certifications. Skej lists SOC 2 Type II (audited annually), GDPR and CCPA, with TLS 1.2+ in transit and AES-256 at rest (Skej trust).
• Training. “We never train on your data. AI providers are contractually prohibited from doing so.”
• Deletion. You can delete your account and all data, “Completed within 30 days.”
• What it reads. Skej says it “processes only the conversations in which it is explicitly included” and “does not read your inbox” (Skej AI and data policy).
• Team admin. Owner, Admin and Member roles, with an option to require admin approval for invites (Skej roles).

One thing to know: Skej’s sales pages say your data is “never stored,” while its trust page describes deleting stored data within 30 days (Skej for sales, Skej trust). The trust page is the more precise statement.

Who it’s for, and who should skip it

Good fit:

• Founders, investors and executives who schedule many external meetings from email threads.
• People who often schedule 3 or more people by email. Calendly’s Callie is one-on-one only (Calendly AI assistant); Blockit and Clara also handle groups (Blockit, Clara).
• Teams where everyone can use Skej, so Autobook can book internal meetings instantly.
• People who like to manage their calendar by text or WhatsApp.

Look elsewhere:

• Inbound sales teams that need routing, round robin and CRM sync: Calendly Teams, which has routing forms, round robin and “Send meetings to Salesforce” (Calendly pricing), or Chili Piper (Chili Piper pricing).
• Recruiters on an ATS: GoodTime (GoodTime) or your ATS’s built-in scheduling. See our recruiter roundup.
• Anyone who mostly wants focus time: Reclaim.
• Anyone who wants to approve messages before they go out: Blockit lets you choose “review-everything” (Blockit). Calendly’s Callie checks with you before exceptions or changes to booked meetings (Calendly AI assistant). Skej offers CC or BCC visibility, not a send-approval step.
• Paid bookings and intake forms: Calendly, which collects payments through Stripe or PayPal from Standard up and asks up to 10 intake questions (Calendly pricing). For HIPAA, Acuity offers a BAA on Premium (Acuity pricing).
• Exchange shops: Clara lists Google Workspace, Microsoft Outlook and Exchange (Clara).

How Skej fits the rubric

These are editorial judgments in words, not scores, using the qualitative considerations in our rubric.

Related reading

• Skej vs Calendly: Calendly’s strengths first; Calendly fits inbound and sales teams better, Skej fits meetings that start in email threads.
• AI scheduling assistants you cc on email: Ranks the assistants you copy on a thread, including Blockit, Howie and Clara.
• Clockwise alternatives: What to use now that Clockwise has shut down; Reclaim is the closest replacement.
• How to delegate your calendar to an AI assistant: Write your rules first, grant the least access that works, roll out in stages and keep the calls only you should make.
• AI assistant vs human EA: Which tasks go to an AI assistant, which stay with a human EA, and how to set up the handoffs.

Frequently asked questions

How much does Skej cost?

Skej Pro is $15 per user per month on annual billing ($19 monthly). Premium is $23 annually ($29 monthly) and adds custom assistants and BCC mode. The Free plan has one booking link and no assistant.

Does Skej have a free trial?

Yes. New accounts start on a 7-day Premium trial that ends after 7 days or 3 booked meetings, whichever comes first, then drops to Free.

Does Skej work with Outlook?

Skej works with Google and Microsoft calendars, and you can connect as many calendar accounts as you like. Its pages do not list Exchange separately.

What are Skej’s limits?

It does not change settings from an email request, does not prioritize contacts, and has no focus time, CRM sync, payments or routing. The text and WhatsApp channels are one-to-one. The limits section above lists all of them.

Try Skej

If you book a lot of outside meetings from email, try Skej. See plans on the Skej pricing page.