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How We Got Senior Engineers from Google, JPMorgan, & Airbnb in a Room

Sebastian Lourenço

Sebastian Lourenço

·3 min read
4Events in 6 weeks
~50%ICP match rate
5–10Attendees per event
How We Got Senior Engineers from Google, JPMorgan, & Airbnb in a Room

01. Meet CoralOS

CoralOS operates as an orchestration layer for agents, bridging legacy APIs, authentication, and schemas into a simple framework — enabling developers to build multi-agent systems faster within a containerised, production-ready environment.

Growth is paramount for CoralOS, specifically developer adoption. The brief: consult on solution-based campaigns that compel technical users.

CoralOS senior engineers event

02. Project Objectives

We knew sign-ups wouldn't cut it. We needed to position CoralOS in the areas where technical founders, senior architects, and CTOs actually look for answers.

ICPs:

  • Developers at large enterprise companies
  • Technical founders / founding engineers at high-growth startups

The challenge: Coral's ICP are senior, time-poor, and ignore generic marketing. CoralOS needed personalised content with meaning and depth — supplying authentic conversations, not funnels.

CoralOS event

03. How We Filled the Room

Acquisition: a multi-channel mix to source ICP-fit attendees.

In our experience, spreading across channels consistently improves ICP match. Different channels surface different signals.

  • Partnerships with distribution channels (borrowed audiences / co-marketing)
  • Community marketing (existing dev communities and networks)
  • Outbound (direct, signal-led, targeted to named accounts and titles)
  • Email

Event format matters: intimate events filter serious adopters.

Close, in-person workshops held in the Solana offices — deliberately exclusive, 5–10 individuals maximum.

Structure: under two hours where attendees surface their own problems first, followed by a workshop walking through the CoralOS product against those exact problems. Pre-created workshops that were easy to follow and well researched.

Leading with their problems — not a pitch — is what earns two hours of senior-engineer attention and frames the relationship as consultative rather than transactional.

Four events over ~six weeks:

DateEvent
Apr 16Senior Engineers Roundtable (Kubernetes & AI Agents)
May 3Beer and Multi-Agent System Coding
May 16Beer and Multi-Agent System Coding
May 30Beer and Multi-Agent System Coding

Co-hosts Roman Georgio, Caelum Forder, and Sahar Mor served as credibility signals — part of why senior people showed up.

CoralOS event

04. Results

Senior engineers don't like being pitched. Technical decision-makers are logical: delivering quality over quantity meant they could relate to others in the room.

One right person outweighs ten wrong ones.

  • Attendance: 5–10 per event, by design
  • ICP match rate: ~50% of attendees fit one of the two core profiles. We screened applicants, disqualifying and qualifying equitably
  • Account quality: Senior Engineers from Airbnb, Snapchat, and JPMorgan. Technical founders, ex-Google, Series A and above

The most substantial signals came from repeat attendees, which led to referrals and warmer introductions to peers.

Against the objective: the room delivered what the brief asked for. Experienced practitioners who understood the problem, articulated their own version of it during the session, and left with a reason to keep engaging with CoralOS — ultimately developing the distribution pipeline.

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