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  "description": "Two of the most talked-about tools in GTM. Two very different paths to building pipeline.\n\n",
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  "textContent": "Two of the most talked-about tools in GTM.\n\n​Two very different paths to building pipeline.\n\nBrendan Short (Founder, **The** **Signal**) and Jacki Leahy (Founder,**Activate the Magic**) join Matzen Shirley (Head of Growth & Demand Gen, **Common** **Room**) to deliver the definitive comparison of Clay and Common Room.\n\nHear how experienced RevOps and GTM leaders evaluate both platforms, where they draw the lines, and what matters most when deciding how to power your team with GTM AI.\n\nThey’ll break down what it  _actually_ takes to get value fast, align tools with your GTM motion, and turn signals into pipeline at scale.\n\nIn this **complimentary live session** , you’ll get a front-row seat to how leading RevOps, Marketing, and Sales teams are evaluating GTM AI, and the insights you need to set your own team up to win.\n\n### **Insights you'll walk away with:**\n\n  * Setup and time to value: What it takes to get from idea to action to pipeline.\n  * Users and use cases: How each tool supports GTM engineers and GTM teams differently.\n  * Data, enrichment, and maintenance: The tradeoffs between customization, automation, costs, and upkeep.\n  * Putting data into action: The different approaches to enabling GTM teams to generate pipeline at scale.\n\n\n\n### **Sign up and solve pain points like:**\n\n  * **Getting value too slowly from your GTM tools**\nFind out which platform, Clay or Common Room, gets you from idea → action → pipeline fastest, without the heavy setup or ops burden.\n  * **Tools that don’t match how your GTM team actually works**\nSee how each platform empowers real GTM users, not just RevOps or engineers.\n  * **Messy, expensive, or hard-to-maintain data**\nLearn how both tools manage data flow, enrichment, and long-term maintenance more efficiently.\n  * **Struggling to turn signals into pipeline**\nDiscover how each approach transforms your data into fast, actionable GTM workflows.\n  * **Uncertainty about which AI-powered stack to trust**\nCut through the hype and get a clear framework for choosing the right AI stack for your motion.\n\n\n\n### **Meet the experts:**\n\n\n**Jacki Leahy, Founder, Activate the Magic**\nFounder of Activate the Magic, Jacki helps $5M–$50M companies turn GTM chaos into clarity through fractional RevOps. A true zero-to-one builder, she discovered her love for operations while scaling LinkSquares from $350K to $9M ARR without a marketing team.\n\n**Brendan Short, Founder, The Signal**\nBrendan is the Founder of  _The Signal_ , where he explores AI and the future of go-to-market. A former SDR turned VP of Sales, he’s led teams at startups, Zoom, and Apollo, and founded two venture-backed SaaS companies in the sales space.\n\n**Matzen Shirley, Head of Growth & Demand Gen, Common Room**\nMatzen is a lifelong startup operator and Head of Growth & Demand Gen at Common Room. With experience spanning SDR, ABM, and PLG, he brings a practical view on how modern GTM teams scale efficiently across marketing, product, and sales.",
  "title": "Clay or Common Room?",
  "updatedAt": "2026-02-05T15:42:20.183Z"
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