Rare Rooms™
You know the customers, partners, or leaders you want to reach. Another introduction has not moved the conversation. Rare Rooms™ give selected people a reason to spend real time together around a shared purpose and a useful next step.
Customers. Partners. Leaders. Founders. Sponsors. Markets.
We design who belongs, how trust gets built, what needs to happen, what gets asked, and what happens afterward.
Explore our public experiences and room archive, learn to build your own, or commission Lighthouse to design a room for your organization.
FROM RAINMAKER TO MARKET MAKER
A market maker creates reasons for valuable people to come together and leads the relationship toward a useful next step. Choose where you want to begin.
Join a public experience and feel the care behind the welcome, seating, conversation, and follow-through. The Pinnacle Prom™ is the next public celebration.
Explore The Pinnacle Prom™Then explore the cohort or bring the work to your organization.
Build Your Own Rare Room™ teaches founders and relationship-led teams to create a purposeful experience connected to referrals, partnerships, or market entry.
$3,500 per participant. Same rate for individual and company-funded seats. Company-exclusive delivery: six-seat minimum, $21,000.
Explore the live cohortBring us in to design and lead the purpose, guest mix, conversation, ask, and follow-through around your business goal.
Custom scope and proposal. Venue, hospitality, and production responsibilities are agreed separately.
Discuss your roomWHAT MAKES IT RARE
Start with a reason to care about one another. Invitations, curation, and conversation create space for trust.
People bring perspective, expertise, and introductions. Every seat has a purpose; useful connections get context.
Relevant relationships can lead to paid work, referrals, partnerships, or giving. Define the opportunity and a useful ask.
Shared ideas become clearer possibilities and actions people can own. Follow-through extends the value beyond the gathering.
The method connects purpose, people, conversation, and follow-through. The format follows the goal.
THE JOB COMES FIRST
For companies, institutions + communities
Start with the people and the business need. The format follows the job.
Sales + account leaders
You have important customers and prospects. You need a better conversation than another presentation.
Founders + market-development leaders
You are entering a market where people do not yet know your work or who should introduce you.
Business-development + partnership leaders
The introduction happened. The people still need time to understand what they could build together.
CEOs + people leaders
The team agrees in the meeting. The decision reopens afterward, or the hard conversation never happens.
Accelerators + universities + ecosystem leaders
Founders need people who can respond to the business, offer useful feedback, or open a specific door.
Association + institutional + community leaders
People joined, gave, or sponsored. You need a meaningful way for them to participate and stay involved.
HOW WE BUILD THE ROOM
What should be different because these people spent time together?
Who needs to be in the conversation?
Invitations. Seating. Conversation. Experience. Ask.
What should somebody be able to say yes to?
Introductions. Meetings. Decisions. Proof. 30/60/90-day movement.
WHAT YOU CAN HIRE LIGHTHOUSE TO DO
Choose the work your room needs. Lighthouse can design and curate the experience, lead the conversation, bring a keynote or live coaching, and connect the offer, invitation, useful ask, and follow-through.
Choose the people, purpose, and format. Give every seat a reason to be there.
Set the context and norms. Ask useful questions, make participation possible, and guide the conversation.
Give people a shared language they can use in the decisions and conversations that follow.
Use live feedback, hot seats, and practical coaching to sharpen a message, offer, ask, or decision.
Define who it is for, what people receive, how it is priced and invited, and the fitting paid next step.
Name the actions and owners. Connect people where useful and capture what happened after the room.
Creating a repeatable experience in your own business? Explore strategic advisory for the offer, assets, experience, and follow-up
PINNACLE POWERED™
Your organization invests in customer events, partner gatherings, or leadership conversations. You need a clearer reason for people to attend, a conversation worth having, and ownership of what follows. Pinnacle Powered™ brings Lighthouse in to design and lead that work.
Bring the business goal: a new market, stronger customer relationships, a partnership, or a decision that needs the people together. We agree the purpose, participants, responsibilities, and measures before the work begins.
The scope can include room strategy, participant curation, conversation design, facilitation, a useful ask, and follow-through. We agree responsibilities for invitations, venue, hospitality, and production before the work begins.
SELECTED APPLICATION
Culture. Philanthropy. Relationship.
Nicki Bland developed her experience inside the Rare Rooms™ cohort, then refined it through private coaching. Kristi helped her create a Rare Room™ at Field & Main. Thirty guests gathered around live performance and a shared purpose.
The evening raised $20,000 in support of Washington National Opera. Relationship → trust → ask → action.
The work continued into The Voice at the Table™, Nicki’s sold-out October 8 experience in Tysons. Donna also developed The Presence Room inside the cohort, then refined it through private coaching. Her experience sold out.
These are examples of leaders applying the method with continued private support. See the cohort, graduate proof, and scope.
Read the full Rare Rooms™ case
Build a room around my goalTHE PINNACLE DINNER™
Our owned proof lab
The Pinnacle Dinner™ began with one intentional table.
Those rooms have produced documented relationships, clients, jobs, partnerships, sponsors, speaking opportunities, and other business movement.
$5M in business movement through five Pinnacle Dinners™.
ACTUAL ROOMS
Real people. Concentrated expertise. The trust to ask for something useful. See the room and the Big-Ass Ask™ in practice.
MEET THE PERSON LEADING THE WORK
At the NC TECH opening keynote, organizers and audience members described a session that held attention and stayed in the day’s conversation. These comments are from that September 29 stage.
“And it was awesome how every other speaker referenced you throughout the day!”
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“your keynote had the crowd hanging on every word!”
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See Kristi’s room work: live coaching, leadership experiences, and commercial applications
Bring BetterStory Studio™ to your team · $12,000 + travel
BEFORE YOU INQUIRE
You can start with the purpose and the people who need to be in the conversation. The inquiry asks what is already in place so the scope can reflect it.
Lighthouse designs the purpose, participant mix, conversation, ask, and follow-through. We agree how that work connects with your invitations, logistics, and production team.
The business goal, participants, format, and level of curation, facilitation, and follow-through shape the scope. The inquiry includes an optional investment question with “I need a recommendation” as a choice.
Lighthouse reviews the goal, people, timing, and what is already in place, then follows up about the fit and a useful next conversation.
START WITH YOUR BUSINESS GOAL
Share your goal, people, and timing. Lighthouse will review the fit and follow up about the useful next conversation.