Common Roomvs
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ZoomInfo: If your requirement is a contact and company database rather than behavioural signal from communities

Customer and community intelligence that stitches scattered person identities into one go-to-market signal feed
As of 31 August 2026, Common Room starts at $2500/month. Common Room watches GitHub, Slack, LinkedIn, forums, product usage and your website, resolves the same human across all of them, and alerts sellers when someone worth calling does something worth calling about. Softwr lists it under Sales Enablement. Common Room is available on Web, Browser extension.
Overview
Common Room is a go-to-market intelligence platform. It ingests activity from community and public sources, GitHub, Slack, Discord, forums, LinkedIn, job change data, podcast and news mentions, alongside your own product usage and website traffic, then resolves those fragments into a single person and account record it calls Person360. On top of that sits scoring, alerting and workflow: when a person matching your buyer profile stars a repository, joins your Slack, changes job to a target account or returns to your pricing page, the relevant seller is notified with the context attached. The capability that justifies the price is identity resolution across sources that normally cannot be joined. A GitHub handle, a Slack display name, a LinkedIn profile and an anonymous website visitor are four separate records in most stacks, and unifying them is the hard part rather than collecting them. For companies with genuine developer or community-led motions, this is the difference between knowing a community exists and knowing which three people in it work at accounts you are trying to close. Pricing is published for the entry tier at 2,500 US dollars per month billed annually, covering 5 seats and 100,000 contacts, with Advanced at 15 seats and 250,000 contacts and Enterprise at 30 seats and 750,000 contacts both quoted. Higher tiers add credits for its research and prospecting agents. That floor of 30,000 US dollars a year rules out early-stage companies, which is awkward because a strong community signal is often exactly what an early-stage developer tool has and a mature enterprise does not.
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Pricing
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
Essential
$2,500 /mo
Advanced
On request
Enterprise
On request
Capabilities
Person360 identity resolution
Merges the same human across GitHub, Slack, LinkedIn, forums, product and web into one record
Community source ingestion
Connects GitHub, Slack, Discord, Discourse, Reddit and other public communities
Signal alerts
Notifies sellers when a defined trigger fires, with the source activity attached
Account and contact scoring
Ranks people and accounts by fit and observed activity
Website deanonymisation
Identifies companies and, on higher tiers, people behind anonymous site traffic
RoomieAI research
Agent-based research on accounts and people, metered by credits per tier
Prospector
Contact discovery within target accounts, metered by credits per tier
Intent data
Bombora Company Surge topic access, with topic counts rising by tier
MCP server
Exposes the data to AI workflows and assistants programmatically
Answered, with sources
Each answer names the page it came from, so you can check it rather than take our word for it.
2,500 US dollars per month billed annually, for 5 seats and 100,000 contacts. Higher tiers are quoted.
It is strongest where there is a public community to observe. Companies with no community signal get a narrower version of the product and should compare it against ordinary intent data vendors.
No. It is signal and identity resolution rather than a contact database, though Prospector covers some contact discovery within accounts.
By credits per tier, from 5,000 RoomieAI credits on Essential up to 10,000 on Enterprise, with Prospector credits counted separately.
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