Learn
Blog explains the room strategy.
Founders, hosts, and teams need clearer ways to decide which rooms are worth joining, hosting, or sponsoring.
Product Roadmap
From founder intent to the right room.
Blog and product previews for what we are building: help founders find better stages, help hosts find credible speakers, and help teams create offline GTM moments that keep moving.
Plan
Playbooks turn intent into matches.
We map who should speak, who should host, and which rooms create the strongest relationship signal.
Build
The community graph becomes the product layer.
OpenStages connects people, topics, formats, cities, and goals so the right stage, speaker, or room is easier to find.
Prove
Speaker profiles show the output.
Published speaker pages are examples of the matching surface we want every qualified founder and host to use.
Product direction
The roadmap is not more content. It is community discovery.
Blog posts teach the market. The future product turns those ideas into a repeatable matching workflow for founders, speakers, hosts, and company GTM teams.
Community resources
Guides and examples that help founders, hosts, and teams choose better rooms and sharper formats.
Speaker and room matching
A self-serve flow that understands a founder's topic, stage, city, and goals, then recommends best-fit rooms.
Community workspace
Controls for host needs, speaker availability, private notes, follow-ups, and room history that keep the graph improving over time.
Next · product preview
This is how the right room becomes findable.
A living record of what you know, which rooms you fit, what hosts need, and where the next useful connection should happen.
Product preview · Community matching
This is a sample of the community matching product we are building at OpenStages: a profile generated from your public footprint, live rooms, and goals — designed to help hosts, peers, and teams understand where you fit. The fields below are placeholders — yours will be filled in with the real you.
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Voice update
Your NameYour role · Your company
linkedin.com/in/your-handle@yourhandleyourname.substack.comyourcompany.com
A short bio drafted from your public footprint — the companies you've built, the rooms you've convened, the topics you keep returning to. Editable and structured so hosts can understand why you should be recommended for the next right room.
Topic oneTopic twoTopic threeTopic four
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endorsements
Fit · why this room makes sense
fit signal- Convened a group of operators, investors, or peers around a topic you care about.
- Spoke, moderated, or contributed in a setting where your point of view was tested live.
- Created a useful follow-up — an intro, a recap, a clip, or a next-room invitation.
- Opened follow-up opportunities: intros, office hours, partnerships, future invitations.
Best-fit rooms
A short list of rooms, stages, podcasts, or GTM moments where your topic and timing make sense.
Fit basis
The rooms you've been in, the panels you've joined, the work you've shipped, and the audiences you can help.
Known-for topics
Three to five themes hosts and peers should associate with you.
Host matches
The events, panels, podcasts, salons, and company GTM moments where your voice would land hardest.
AI profile
What the public web + your rooms say about you.
Synthesis
OpenStages reads across your public footprint — press, company, essays, social — plus the specific rooms you've been in, and writes a single coherent synthesis for hosts and community partners: who you are, what you can credibly speak to, and which rooms or hosts should surface you next.
Sources scanned · LinkedIn · X · Substack · company sites · podcasts · press · your events
Background trajectory
career arc- YearAn early credential, award, or formative role that shaped how you think.
- YearThe first company, project, or community you built or led.
- YearA pivot, a launch, or a public moment that defined your current chapter.
- TodayWhat you're shipping now — and the rooms you should be in next.
Expertise & signature views
recurring takes- Signature view #1"A take you've defended in public more than once. OpenStages extracts it from your talks, posts, and conversations."
- Signature view #2"A contrarian or specific position only you would phrase this way."
- Signature view #3"The lens you bring that makes your perspective worth inviting back."
Representative work & rooms
fit signalpress
A press feature, award, or recognition
Publication · Year
post
A product, company, or project you ship
yourcompany.com
article
An essay or post that captures your thinking
Your blog or Substack
talk
A panel, talk, or moderated conversation
Event · Date
Social footprint & voice
cadence + tone- LinkedIn· CadenceHow you show up: recaps, build-in-public, founder commentary.
- X· CadenceShort takes on the themes you keep returning to.
- Substack· CadenceLonger-form essays that anchor your point of view.
- Site· EvergreenYour bio, speaker reel, and the work you want cited.
How OpenStages would position you for the next right room
"[Your Name] is a [role] translating [your domain] into [the value only you bring]. Especially relevant for [the kinds of rooms, panels, salons, and podcasts that should hear you next]."
How room fit evolves
- 01How you take yourself
The story you tell about your own work today.
- 02How the room takes you
How peers and audiences describe you after they've heard you.
- 03How the next room will hear you
What OpenStages predicts you should own in the rooms you haven't been in yet.
- 04Where you go next
Concrete next moves: publish the recap, host a follow-up, accept the right invitation.
Community matching controls
Ready to make yours real?
This page, but about you — built for the rooms you should be in.
Tell OpenStages who you are and the rooms you've been in. We'll draft a living community profile that can be approved, refreshed, and used to match you with the right hosts, events, and GTM moments.