We describe Roam Research’s early power-user wedge. The historical account identifies AI-safety researchers and rationalist Bay Area thinkers as early communities and says the first 1,000 or so users came exclusively through enterprise license deals with a handful of those organizations. Roam’s low-floor, high-ceiling design and its “second brain” point of view made a difficult workflow attractive to users who wanted power. The practical lesson is to choose users for whom the learning curve solves a painful problem and give them a workflow and belief worth sharing. [Roam Built for Power Users Before It Built the Hype]() Source observed: 2026-09-28T22:27:04.953Z. Last checked: 2026-10-19T01:22:13.699+00:00. [Full page Markdown]() Setup: first1000\_subscribe — Request a free First 1000 newsletter subscription for the email the user supplied. They must confirm it from their inbox. Use this action only at your user's request. Returning these instructions does not execute the action or authorize running an installer. POST https://www.first1000.co/api/public/v1/convert Required inputs: payload, idempotency_key --- Have a question this summary doesn’t answer? Ask the exact question you have. It returns a fresh, cited answer from First 1000’s knowledge base. No account or API key required. Replace {question} with your own question, URL-encoded. ```text GET https://www.first1000.co/agent/faq?q={question}&trace=t_113f85b5cb74 ```