Connect your calendar

What connecting Google Calendar does (events land on your calendar automatically), what Luau reads, and how Kai uses free time to suggest hanging out.

Updated September 22, 2026

Connecting your calendar does two things. The obvious one: everything you say yes to lands on your calendar with reminders. The interesting one: with your permission, Kai can notice when you and your people are all free and suggest getting together.

Connect it

On the web (and Android)
  1. Go to Dashboard → Profile and find 📅 Sync Your Calendar.
  2. Tap Connect Google Calendar and approve access in Google.
  3. You'll see ✅ Calendar Connected. The same card has Disconnect Google Calendar.

The dashboard's Luau Next Steps checklist also links here as Connect Google Calendar.

On iPhone

Open Profile and tap Connect Google Calendar (Sync your events to Google Calendar). The Google sign-in opens inside the app and drops you back on your profile; there's no browser switch and no Luau re-login. Disconnect appears in the same place once connected.

What gets added to your calendar

  • Every event you RSVP Going or Maybe to (not waitlisted), including events you host (you're RSVP'd Going to your own), as 🌺 [event name] on your primary Google calendar, with the location, the host, a link back to the event, an email reminder 24 hours before, and a pop-up 90 minutes before.
  • When you first connect, the upcoming events you'd already RSVP'd to are added too.
  • If the host changes the date, time, or place, your entry updates. If they delete or cancel it, it's renamed 🚫 [CANCELLED] … and stops blocking the time.
  • Recurring series you join are synced as a set.

What Luau reads (and doesn't)

Luau asks Google for calendar access so it can write your events. It reads your calendar only if you turn on 📅 Match on calendar availability (off by default), and then it only asks Google one question per time window: busy or free? Titles, attendees, locations, and notes are never fetched, and no person ever sees your calendar through Luau.

How Kai uses free time

With availability matching on:

  1. Each night Luau checks whether you're free in coarse weekend windows (Saturday and Sunday mornings and afternoons, two weekends out) and keeps just those yes/no answers for a few days.
  2. Kai compares those windows with your mutuals who share a Social Spark with you (pickleball, hikes, watch parties, and so on, from training Kai).
  3. When at least three of them are free in the same window, you get a nudge: 5 of your people are free Saturday morning ✨ They all like pickleball. Want me to put out feelers? Outdoor sparks are weather-checked first.
  4. Tap Put out feelers and Kai opens a planning conversation with a draft you can send. You'll never get more than a couple of these a week, and turning the toggle off stops them.

When you're the one planning, Kai's invitee suggestions also say how many people look free (3 of your people look free that Saturday). Counts only, never names of who's busy.

Turn availability matching on

On the web (and Android)

Dashboard → Settings, under your social profile's planning preferences: 📅 Match on calendar availability (Let Kai use your Google Calendar free/busy — only ever as a simple free-or-busy signal, shown in aggregate — to spot days when you and your people are all open.)

On iPhone

Profile → Social Life → Buffers, the same Match on calendar availability switch.

Without a Google account

  • Every RSVP confirmation email includes Add to Calendar, a standard calendar file for Apple Calendar, Outlook, or anything else.
  • On iPhone, the sign-up board's Add to Calendar writes your claimed shifts straight into your phone's calendar. Luau asks for write-only access; it can't read anything.

Disconnecting

Disconnect Google Calendar (web) or Disconnect (iPhone) removes Luau's access immediately. Events already on your calendar stay; future RSVPs stop syncing; any stored availability windows expire on their own.

Questions

Frequently asked.

What happens when I connect Google Calendar?
Every event you RSVP Going or Maybe to is added to your primary Google calendar with reminders, including the ones you'd already said yes to. Changes, cancellations, and deletions follow.
Can Luau see what's on my calendar?
Only whether you're busy or free in a time window, and only if you turn on Match on calendar availability. Luau never reads event titles, locations, or attendees, and never shows anyone your calendar.
Can my friends see when I'm free?
Not your calendar and not your schedule. Kai only ever uses free time in aggregate, for example telling a host that 3 of their people look free Saturday morning. Nobody sees which three, or why.
How does Kai suggest hanging out?
When at least three of your mutuals who share one of your Social Sparks are all free in the same weekend window, Kai sends a nudge like 5 of your people are free Saturday morning. They all like pickleball. Want me to put out feelers?
Do I have to connect a calendar to use Luau?
No. It's optional. Without it you still get RSVP confirmations with an Add to Calendar file, and Kai still helps you plan; it just can't spot open weekends.
Does Luau work with Apple Calendar or Outlook?
Syncing is Google Calendar only today. Every RSVP confirmation includes an Add to Calendar file that opens in Apple Calendar, Outlook, or anything else, and on iPhone the sign-up board can write your claimed shifts to your calendar.
What happens if I disconnect?
Luau forgets its access to your Google account immediately. Events already on your calendar stay there; nothing new is added, and any availability windows Luau had stored expire on their own within a few days.