Overview
What does Vela do?
Vela is a scheduling coordinator you copy into an email thread, in the way you would cc a human assistant. It reads the context, proposes times, negotiates with the other side, follows up when someone stops replying, and sends the invite once a slot is agreed.
The distinguishing claim is multi-party scheduling at volume across channels — email, SMS, WhatsApp and phone — rather than the calendar-link model that dominates this category. The example the company gives is a recruiting firm needing to book a thousand driver interviews by Friday across all three channels simultaneously, which a scheduling link cannot do.
It is a Y Combinator Winter 2026 company and lists enterprise recruiting teams among its users. Recruiting coordination is the sharpest use case: high volume, multi-party, and the participants are exactly the people least likely to engage with a booking link.
Features
Vela features
Works inside email threads
Copied into an existing conversation rather than replacing it with a booking link.
Follows up automatically
Chases participants who stop replying, which is where most scheduling actually stalls.
Multi-party negotiation
Coordinates across several participants rather than offering one person a set of slots.
Multi-channel
Email, SMS, WhatsApp and phone in the same coordination flow.
High-volume scheduling
Aimed at hundreds or thousands of interviews rather than a personal calendar.
Integrations
Integrations and how to connect Vela
What Vela connects to, and the order to set it up in.
Connect your calendar and mail
Gmail or Outlook, so it can read availability and send from your thread.
Copy it into a thread
The core interaction: add it to an email conversation the way you would a human coordinator.
Set your scheduling preferences
Working hours, buffers and which meetings need which participants.
Watch the first few before trusting it
It sends mail on your behalf. Read what it writes to counterparties before letting it run unattended.
Fit
Who is Vela for?
Recruiting coordinators
The clearest fit — high-volume, multi-party interview scheduling across candidates who ignore booking links.
Executives with complex calendars
The company positions it as white-glove coordination for founders and executives.
Anyone who just needs a booking link
Poor fit. Calendly solves that for free; Vela exists for the cases where a link fails.
Use cases
Best use cases for Vela
Bulk interview scheduling
Hundreds of candidate interviews across email, SMS and phone at once.
Multi-party external meetings
Coordinating several people across organisations, where availability has to be negotiated rather than offered.
Chasing unresponsive participants
The follow-up loop is the part humans skip and the part that actually gets meetings booked.
Pricing
Vela pricing
Not published at time of listing. No free tier.
Contact sales
Most commonCustom
No public pricing found. The product is positioned at enterprise recruiting teams and executives.
- Email, SMS, WhatsApp and phone coordination
- Multi-party negotiation
- Calendar integration
Pricing last verified . Vendors change pricing frequently — always confirm on Vela’s own pricing page before buying.
User sentiment
What other users say about Vela
A summary of publicly available feedback about Vela — not paid testimonials.
Launched via Y Combinator and Hacker News in 2026, so public discussion is launch-stage rather than sustained user feedback. The company lists recognisable enterprise logos, but those are its own claims and we have not verified them. No independent reviews of sustained use are available yet.
We publish individual user reviews only once they have been collected and attributed to a real source. None have been collected for Vela yet. Used it? Send us your review.
Sentiment summarised from: Vela — official site, Y Combinator — Vela launch, Hacker News — Launch HN thread.
Catalogued from Vela's site, its Y Combinator launch and its Hacker News launch thread. We have not used it. How we assess agents.
FAQ
Vela frequently asked questions
How is this different from Calendly?
Calendly gives someone a link and asks them to pick. Vela negotiates on your behalf inside an existing thread and chases people who do not respond. The difference matters when the other party will not use a link — candidates, clients, external executives.
Does it send email as me?
It operates inside your threads, so yes. Read what it writes to counterparties before letting it run unattended — a scheduling agent talking to your candidates is representing you.
What does it cost?
No public pricing was found at the time of listing. Expect a sales conversation.
Have you tested it?
No. This entry is catalogued from the company's launch material, which is why it carries no score.