Bring The Idea Room to your city.
The Idea Room is where entrepreneurs brainstorm each other's ideas — live, structured, and generous. If you're a coach, consultant, or entrepreneur who believes ideas get better out loud, we'll certify you to host the official chapter where you live.
One room. Real people. Every idea gets worked on.
"I walked in with a note on my phone. I walked out with a plan, three collaborators, and a deadline I actually wanted."
— Idea Room session participant, Kansas City
From application to your first session
Chapters are licensed, not franchised — think of how TEDx and CreativeMornings grew city by city.
Apply
Tell us about you, your city, and the entrepreneur community you'd host for. We keep chapters selective on purpose.
Get certified
Complete the facilitator certification: the session method, the exercises, and how to run a room where everyone contributes.
License the brand
Sign the facilitator agreement and get the playbook, materials, and the official name: The Idea Room [Your City].
Host your chapter
Run monthly sessions on our platform — registration, replays, and your local community, all inside The Idea Room app.
What we bring. What you bring.
The Idea Room HQ
You, the facilitator
Fair question. Honest answers.
Sessions are always free for attendees. Here's what hosting the room gives you.
Yes — recurring referral commissions. Every attendee who upgrades to a paid Idea Room membership through your chapter earns you a monthly commission for as long as they stay a member. Your room grows, your recurring income grows with it. Other platforms hosts do this work for free; our facilitators don't.
"Come to my meetup" and "I'm the certified facilitator of The Idea Room [Your City], part of a national network" are very different sentences. The brand hands you instant credibility with attendees, venues, sponsors, and local press — and it compounds as more cities open.
One session a month, plus the community presence you'd want anyway. The platform handles the unglamorous part — registration, reminders, replays, and member follow-up all run through The Idea Room app, so your job is the room, not the admin.
It's designed to. Every session puts you at the center of your city's idea economy, in front of entrepreneurs who now associate you with breakthroughs. For coaches, consultants, and agency owners, that's a pipeline no ad budget buys. You also get a facilitator profile on our site and features in our newsletter and channels.
The first cohort gets the certification fee waived, a permanent Founding Facilitator title, a real voice in shaping the playbook, and first invitations to co-host national virtual sessions and speak at the annual Idea Room Conference in Kansas City.
Certification training, the full session playbook and exercises, a private network of fellow facilitators to swap tactics with, and national spotlight moments — your sessions featured in Session Notes, the newsletter, and the app.
Official in the app. On stage at the conference.
Recognition isn't a perk we mention in passing — it's built into the product.
The verified badge, everywhere you appear
Every member in The Idea Room app sees you as your city's official facilitator — on your profile, on your sessions, in the community. When someone in your city opens the app, your name is the front door.
A stage at the national conference
Facilitators are recognized on the main stage at the annual Idea Room Conference — and lead the breakout rooms. Once a year, the whole national community sees exactly who runs your city.
You're already the person people bring their ideas to.
Two kinds of facilitators thrive in this role. If either sounds like you, you should apply.
Coaches & Consultants
You advise entrepreneurs for a living. Hosting the official Idea Room chapter puts you at the center of your city's idea economy — every month, a room full of your exact clients watches you do what you do best.
Sound like you?
Collaborative entrepreneurs
You believe ideas get better out loud. You're the founder friends call to think things through, and your favorite part of building is building with people. This makes that instinct official — with a method, a brand, and a national community behind it.
Sound like you?
Is your city still open?
Every city has exactly one official facilitator. Once a city is filled, it's filled — see what's open right now.
Kansas City, MO
Chicago, IL
Chicago, IL
Atlanta, GA
Denver, CO
Phoenix, AZ
Dallas, TX
Nashville, TN
Your city not listed?
Don't see your city? It's open by default — apply and claim it before someone else does.
Your city has stuck ideas. Give them a room.
Applications for founding chapter facilitators are open now. Founding facilitators shape the program, get certified first, and host at the first annual Idea Room Conference in Kansas City.
Questions first? Email hello@whereideasbegin.com — a real founder reads every message.