Q3 investor update outline
Malleable vs Acuity Scheduling
Built for how knowledge workers actually schedule.
Acuity Scheduling is powerful software for appointment-based businesses — therapists, coaches, photographers, and service providers. Malleable is designed for a different use case: knowledge workers who need AI-assisted scheduling, time tracking, and a calendar that actively helps them manage their week.
No credit card to start. Free forever on the Solo plan.
In fairness
Acuity's intake forms, payment collection, and package management are genuinely robust for client-facing service businesses. If you're running an appointment-heavy practice, those features add real value.
Tell it what you need. It writes the calendar.
Type the sentence you would say to a coworker. Malleable reads it, schedules it on Google Calendar, and keeps your board and time tracking in the same line of sight.
Events
live- agentScheduled "Design review" Thu 2:00 PMMalleable
- commita1b2c3 "fix slot overlap" on feat/embedGitHub
- moved"Investor update" to In ProgressYou
- push3 commits to feat/embedGitHub
- gcalSynced "Standup" from GoogleGoogle
- done"Ship MCP connector" marked DoneYou
Pricing page rewrite
API rate limit docs
Security audit checklist
Review Stripe webhook PR
Call design contractor
Update integration tests
Prep quarterly roadmap
Investor update draft
Booking widget polish
Customer research interviews
Onboarding email copy
Database migration script
Ship MCP connector
Close 2 support tickets
Deploy v2.1 to prod
The honest side-by-side.
Where Acuity Scheduling stops and where Malleable picks up. Read it straight, then decide for yourself.
Calendar-centric vs appointment-centric
ACUITY
Acuity is built around the appointment as the unit of work — a client selects a service, fills out a form, pays, and receives a confirmation. The experience is optimized for external client booking.
MALLEABLE
Malleable centers your own calendar. Booking pages let others find time with you, but the core experience is about managing your week — blocking focus time, tracking hours, and scheduling intelligently.
AI scheduling assistant
ACUITY
Acuity's availability logic is manual — you set your hours, block out dates, and the system respects those rules. There's no AI reasoning about how to structure your schedule or when to protect time.
MALLEABLE
Malleable's AI understands your calendar in context. Ask it to protect mornings, find time for a recurring task, or balance meeting load across the week — it reasons about your schedule, not just your availability windows.
Time tracking out of the box
ACUITY
Acuity tracks appointments booked and client activity. It doesn't track how your time is actually spent across the week — meetings, deep work, admin. For that, you need a separate tool.
MALLEABLE
Malleable automatically turns calendar events into time entries. See your week as a time record — not just what was scheduled, but how the hours were actually distributed.
Natural language commands
ACUITY
Managing Acuity means navigating its settings dashboard — availability windows, service types, intake forms, calendar integrations. Well-organized, but menu-heavy.
MALLEABLE
"Block the last hour of my Fridays" or "add a prep buffer before client calls." Type it once and Malleable applies it. Your calendar adapts through conversation, not configuration.
Comparison reflects publicly documented plans at time of writing. Acuity Scheduling is a trademark of its owner; Malleable is not affiliated with Acuity Scheduling.
One app, not a stack
Booking, scheduling, a board, and time tracking under one login. Stop paying for a tracker on top of your scheduling tool.
Your calendar stays yours
Google Calendar remains the source of truth with real two-way sync. Nothing to migrate, nothing to trust blindly.
Free to start, fair to grow
A genuinely free plan, then $9/mo when you need more. Annual billing brings two months free. No seats to count.
A calendar that works with you, not just for your clients.
Malleable is built for knowledge workers — AI scheduling, time tracking, and booking pages in one app.