Case studies
Rooms we’ve run.
6 rooms, 1,450+ people through the door, 44 speakers on stage — from a closed-door salon to a thousand-person summit, each designed, curated, and run end to end.
Explore the work
One room at a time.
Every room we’ve run, grouped into three themes. Open a case study for the brief, design decisions, results, and its companion field notes.
01/2 cases
Tech & AI
Infrastructure, AI-native products, and the people building the stack.
Flagship salonSep 12, 2026 · Sunnyvale
AI Infra Signal
GPU economics, inference, and agents — the stack that keeps models in production.
100application-only seats, every one reviewed for fit
Closed-door salonAug 6, 2026 · Redwood City
AI Tech Salon
Ten AI-native companies, three minutes each, in a screened room of researchers, founders, and investors.
106researchers, founders, and investors
02/2 cases
GTM
Founder-led sales, channels, pricing, and repeatable growth motions.
Closed-door GTM panelAug 26, 2026 · San Francisco
Scaling Beyond
Once founder-led sales stops scaling — channels, budget, and the price you charge.
116founders and operators in the room
Closed-door GTM panelJul 31, 2026 · San Francisco
Founder-Led Sales
Stuck deals, pricing, channel math, and the handoff past founder-led sales.
150founders in the room
03/1 case
AI Content & Media
AI film, creators, and storytelling — from a global summit to a 48-hour creator lab.
In their words
What audiences and partners say.
Public reflections from people in the room, alongside the outcomes partners took away from it. Linked cards open the original post.
“The power of unexpected conversion channels — like placing a physical letter with a QR code inside Amazon packages — really stayed with me.”
Alisha Cheng · Event attendee
View the original post“Repeatable GTM is not simply more outbound. It starts with a tighter ICP, clearer deal signals, and a motion the team can run without sacrificing conversion or margins.”
Jake Z · Event attendee
View the original post“OpenStages converted 30% of the people we met through the room into our startup program.”
GMI Cloud · Ecosystem partner
“Through OpenStages, we met a strong group of AI researchers we would not have reached through a typical founder event.”
Beta Fund · Investment partner
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