Common Room grew out of community intelligence and became a customer-signal platform: it connects the places your buyers already show up - your product, your website, your Slack and Discord communities, GitHub, social, the CRM - resolves the people and accounts behind those activities into one graph, and hands sellers a ranked view of who is warming up, with an assistant to research and draft on top. AstroFabric watches a different surface: the whole market, through hiring, funding, technology adoption and change, news and buying intent, and it runs the list, enrichment, verification and audience work behind the signals as agent missions. The comparison is between signals from your own gravity well and signals from everywhere else. Public information as of September 2026; Common Room publishes one entry price and quotes the rest.
The short version
Common Room tells you which of the people already orbiting you are warming up. AstroFabric tells you which companies in the market are in motion, and builds the verified, enriched, audience-ready list behind them. First-party gravity versus market-wide observation, a seat-based annual platform versus credit-priced agents.
What Common Room actually is
Common Room's core is identity resolution across first-party surfaces: it ingests activity from your product, your website, communities you run on Slack or Discord, GitHub, social platforms, support and the CRM, resolves each activity to a person and an account, and scores the result so sellers see who is engaging and where. Around that sit alerts, segments and workflows, an assistant that researches accounts and drafts outreach, a prospecting module with its own credits, and integrations back into the CRM and sequencing tools. Pricing in 2026 is seat- and volume-tiered on annual contracts: the published Essential plan is $2,500 a month billed annually, with five seats, up to 100,000 contacts, and bundled assistant and prospecting credits; Advanced and Enterprise carry more seats, more contacts and more credits and are quoted. There is no self-serve trial. The honest read: for a product-led or developer-facing company with a real community and enough first-party activity to resolve, Common Room turns that activity into pipeline signal better than anything else, and it is priced for teams that already have that activity.
What AstroFabric actually is
AstroFabric is agentic AI for business intelligence, the GTM-data kind. The signals agent watches any account set - your ICP list, open opportunities, a market segment you have never contacted - for hiring, funding, technology adoption and change, news, executive moves and buying intent, and pings your channel when something moves, with the evidence attached. The rest of the roster does the work the signal implies: the prospecting agent finds the accounts and people, the enrichment agent runs a waterfall, the verification agent checks and suppresses, the audience agent turns movers into matched audiences, the personalization agent writes the first touch from the signal. Pricing is credits with no seats and no annual minimum; every external write passes an approval gate; every run is bounded by a credit ceiling; and the audit log records why each account moved. It runs from the console, the REST API, MCP, the CLI, Slack, Telegram and email.
Side by side
| Dimension | Common Room | AstroFabric |
|---|---|---|
| Signal surface | First-party: product, web, community, social, GitHub, CRM | Market-wide: hiring, funding, technology change, news, intent on any account set |
| Core output | A resolved person-and-account graph with engagement scores | Ranked movers with evidence, plus the enriched, verified list behind them |
| Who does the work after the signal | Sellers, with an assistant that researches and drafts | Agents: list, enrichment, verification, audience, first touch, delivered under approvals |
| Pricing (published) | Essential $2,500/mo billed annually (5 seats, 100k contacts); Advanced and Enterprise quoted | Credits, no seats, no annual minimum, charged when a source answers |
| Audiences | Segments to CRM and sequencing tools | Matched and custom audiences on connected ad accounts |
| Governance | Roles and workflow permissions | Approval gate on every external write, credit ceilings, audit log |
Choose Common Room if
Choose Common Room if your best pipeline signal is first-party: a product with a free tier, a developer community, an active open-source presence, a website with meaningful traffic from target accounts. Product-led SaaS and developer-tool companies get the most from it, because the people warming up are already in their orbit and the hard problem is resolving scattered activity to one person at one account. If you have that activity and a sales team of a size that a seat-and-contact-tiered annual plan fits, Common Room is the strongest tool for turning it into ranked conversations.
Choose AstroFabric if
Choose AstroFabric if your motion is outbound-led and the signals that matter - hiring and funding, technology change, intent - are about accounts outside your orbit, if you want the list, enrichment, verification and audience work done by agents rather than by sellers with an assistant, if credits without seats or a contract suit you better than an annual platform, or if you integrate through an API, MCP or the CLI. Companies with both kinds of signal often run both: first-party warmth from Common Room, market-wide motion and the data work from AstroFabric.
Frequently asked questions
Is AstroFabric a Common Room alternative?
For market-wide signal monitoring and the data work that follows a signal, yes. For resolving first-party activity - product usage, community, web visits, GitHub - into a person-and-account graph, no: that is Common Room’s specialty and AstroFabric does not attempt it.
What does Common Room cost in 2026?
The published entry point is the Essential plan at $2,500 a month billed annually, with five seats, up to 100,000 contacts and bundled assistant and prospecting credits. Advanced and Enterprise are quoted with larger allotments, and there is no self-serve trial. AstroFabric is credit-priced with no seats or minimum.
What signals does AstroFabric watch that Common Room does not?
Public business signals on any account set: hiring, funding, technology adoption and change, news, executive moves and buying intent - including companies that have never interacted with you. Common Room’s signals come from activity around your own company.
Can I use Common Room and AstroFabric together?
Yes. Common Room resolves first-party warmth; AstroFabric watches the market and runs the list, enrichment, verification and audience work behind any signal. Both deliver into the same CRM and sequencing tools.
Sources
Every playbook on this blog ships as a runnable mission.
Open a workspace and the playbook library is waiting - describe the outcome and the agents carry it end to end, on your plan's monthly credits.