The Ops Room

The problem

RevOps communities used to be great. Small, curated groups where practitioners helped each other solve real problems and build real relationships.

Then they started charging. Vendors flooded in. The founders prioritized sponsorships over members. The people who made the community valuable got pushed out or priced out, and what was left wasn't worth showing up for.

Now we're all scattered across dead Slack groups and LinkedIn, hoping to stumble into the kind of conversations that used to happen every day.

What this is

The Ops Room is a free Slack community for people who actually do revenue operations. It's governed by a constitution that exists to prevent everything that killed the communities before it.

The rules

Free forever. Members will never pay a dollar to participate.
No selling the community's attention. No sponsored posts, no "featured vendor of the month," no newsletter takeovers.
Members moderate. Anyone can anonymously report rule-breaking with evidence. To start, I review and act on reports. At 500 members, an elected panel of members (not vendors) takes over.
We are selective. Members are RevOps practitioners, aspiring RevOps, and adjacent functions (strategy & ops, marketing ops, business ops, sales ops).
90/10 rule. Vendor participation is capped at 10% of the community and any event. If we're at capacity, new vendors wait. Influencers, founders, etc. are treated as vendors.
Vendors must drive value. The moderation panel of members will evaluate vendors and boot any that are not actively driving value for the community. This doubles as the mechanism for getting new vendors off the waitlist.
Member-driven governance. At 500 members, the community can vote to change these rules. Changes require a 2/3 supermajority.

Who it's for

People who do RevOps work and want a network of peers who do the same. Whether you're building dashboards in Salesforce, fighting with HubSpot workflows, or trying to explain pipeline math to your CEO, this is your room.

What's the catch?

I'm building this because I see an opportunity to solve a problem and, in doing so, expand my network, which I believe will lead to opportunities for me in the future.

My goal is not to monetize this as much as possible, but to create an environment where members overwhelmingly benefit and, when vendors are in the picture, there is a legitimate fair exchange of value.

Who started this?

I'm Tim. I live in NYC and run a company called Maester in ad tech. Before this, I was a Head of Revenue and Business Operations at 4 different companies. I've experienced the benefits of networking first hand and have made a lot of great connections in the broader RevOps community.