Livvwork Uses AI to Recommend Which Days Hybrid Employees Should Come In

01 /The Concept

Hybrid work created an infrastructure problem nobody predicted: when showing up at the office only makes sense if the right colleagues are also there, coordinating physical presence becomes its own logistical task. Livvwork built an AI assistant to handle that coordination automatically.

The product connects to existing corporate calendars and messaging in Slack, Microsoft 365, or Google Workspace, then quietly tracks schedules, stated preferences, and working relationships across a team. Based on that data, it proactively suggests which days each employee should come into the office to maximize meaningful in-person overlap – and handles all the rescheduling, room booking, and calendar updates when plans change.

The assistant operates conversationally. An employee can say they want to sync with specific colleagues next week, and the assistant will surface available times, flag open meeting rooms in the office or a nearby co-working space, and either propose the meeting or check availability first – all without leaving the chat interface.

The platform is still in beta; early access costs €6 per employee per month. Livvwork, based in the Netherlands, has raised €750K to continue development – a small round by US standards, but consistent with early European venture sizing.

02 /Why It Matters

The need this product addresses existed before Livvwork, and the market already has competitors. A [related review](/review/ne-ofis-ne-udaljonka-a-gibridnaja-rabota) from summer 2021 covered Café, which built a scheduling app for office visits and used it to get into Y Combinator, raising $1.5M on demo day. Livvwork is not the first attempt at this category.

So why did investors write a check anyway? The pitch that moved them was the Dropbox comparison – and it is more than a fundraising line.

When Dropbox launched, cloud storage already existed. Competitors required users to manually find files, upload them, then download them on another device. Dropbox made the whole thing invisible: a folder that syncs automatically in the background. The simplification was obvious in hindsight, but it was the right simplification at the right moment – when people were starting to work across multiple devices and manual file management was becoming a genuine bottleneck.

Hybrid work creates an analogous friction point. The desire to see colleagues in person is real and recurring. The existing tools – checking everyone's calendars manually, sending Slack messages, booking rooms separately – work in theory but have become too cumbersome to rely on at scale. Livvwork's AI assistant aims to be the "special folder": something that handles the coordination automatically so users don't have to think about it.

The investors agreed: "We don't usually invest at this stage," said a partner at the fund that backed Livvwork, "but in this case we felt we had to make an exception. The right team, a beautiful goal, and timing give Livvwork good odds."

03 /Opportunities

The tailwinds here are real: hybrid work is not going away, the coordination problem it creates is obvious, and the existing tooling is clearly not purpose-built for it. The Dropbox framing points toward the actual opportunity – finding any workflow that has become significantly more frequent or more distributed, where the current solution still works but has become genuinely inconvenient.

On the hybrid work category specifically, the market remains early enough that replicating the core idea with a different positioning or a different regional focus is a viable path. What made Dropbox valuable was not inventing cloud sync – it was executing on radical simplicity at the right moment. The same principle applies here.

More broadly, the Dropbox pattern holds wherever behavior has recently changed at scale: what tasks are more people performing more often than they were two years ago, and what part of the current workflow could be automated away entirely? That question has a different answer in every industry – and each answer is potentially its own "new Dropbox" in a category that just became worth building for.