Salesforce Secure Team Behind Calendar App Clockwise for Agentforce

Salesforce has revealed that it will be taking on the team behind the calendar organization app Clockwise for its Agentforce team, with the app being rendered no longer available from March 27, 2026. 

The SaaS leader has said that this is not an acquisition and just involves the Clockwise team moving over to Salesforce to work on its proprietary artificial intelligence product.

A Quiet Transition 

Last week, Clockwise CEO and cofounder Matt Martin wrote in a LinkedIn post that the team behind Clockwise would be “bringing [their] deep expertise building reliable, agentic software to the Agentic Enterprise.” He also clarified that this means all Clockwise services will be unavailable from March 27.

A Salesforce spokesperson told The Register that this is not an acquisition, and that Salesforce “is not acquiring Clockwise or its technology.” Instead, the team will transition over to the team behind Agentforce, joining a group led by Gary Lerhaupt, who, along with Martin, cofounded Clockwise. 

Martin previously worked for Salesforce as a software engineer between 2014 and 2016 before leaving to cofound Clockwise in 2016, while Lerhaupt left Clockwise last year. Lerhaupt is now the VP of Product Architecture for Agentforce. 

He also took to LinkedIn after the news, saying: “In a twist maybe only Silicon Valley could write, this crew is joining Salesforce. More specifically, they’re joining my charter to build Agent Interoperability and Orchestration within Agentforce. I couldn’t be more excited to build the future of AI alongside them again!”

The Poaching Technique Prevails

This news comes after Salesforce’s Agentforce team underwent some serious restructuring, having been affected by the company’s recent layoffs and an executive shakeup. 

It appears that Salesforce is spending considerable time evaluating what its Agentforce team should look like, making sure it’s got fresh talent and is positioned to tackle the company’s shifting AI mission. 

We have seen now that not only is Salesforce prioritizing bringing Slack and Agentforce together for a more seamless and interconnected experience, but it is also trying to make sure Agentforce is as in-app a solution as possible to act as more of an integrated platform. 

Not only that, but it indicates that Salesforce’s “poaching” strategy is still in full swing; first, it scored US Army contracts, then it poached ServiceNow customers, and now an entire team. 

Final Thoughts 

As the Agentforce team undergoes further restructuring, it is interesting to witness what Salesforce has planned for the future of both the team and the technology. 

Having Matt Martin and Gary Lerhaupt back on the same team will likely bring some former creative fusion to this new joint venture, too.