Show your work status with Slack and smart lights from your calendar

Updates your Slack status and changes a smart light's color automatically when a calendar event starts.

How the work actually flows

It branches. Every path runs.

Pattern: Parallel Split (2)

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Build size
Advanced

A larger build with multiple systems, AI reasoning, and custom rules.

Business functions
Messaging & NotificationsScheduling & Calendar
Connects
Google CalendarSlackPhilips Hue

The problem it solves

You're deep in focus time and someone taps you on the shoulder or pings you on Slack anyway, because there's no easy way for them to tell you're busy. Manually updating your status for every meeting is one more thing you forget to do.

Who it fits

Remote workers or home-office professionals who need a clear, automatic signal for when they can be interrupted.

How it works

  1. When a calendar event starts, the system checks what's on your schedule
  2. It matches the event to a status color based on your calendar system
  3. Your Slack status updates automatically with an emoji and the event title
  4. A connected smart light changes color to match, giving a visual signal to people nearby
What you get

Colleagues who always know when you're free

You get your Slack status and office lighting updated automatically the moment a meeting starts on your calendar.

What you get

An automatically updated Slack status and a color-coded smart light signal.

What you need

A Google Calendar account, a Slack account with user-level status permissions, and a smart lighting system such as Philips Hue.

We can build this. But should you?

The hard question is not how to build it. It is whether this is the right thing to build first.

That is what a Fractional Chief AI Officer figures out with you, before anyone writes a line of code.

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