The cooperative exists to put leaders of independently owned management companies in the same room — to share what’s working, negotiate together, and operate as peers rather than competitors. Membership is curated, not open-enrollment.
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Structured peer connection for member CAM company owners. Cohort-based, with facilitated programming.
The cooperative’s flagship convening. Three days, member operators in one room; facilitated working sessions across the operational topics CAM owners actually run their businesses on.
The cooperative’s learning and sharing hub. Webinars, Summit recaps, courses, peer discussions, and the templates members share with each other — all in one member-only space.
The owner of a regional CAM firm has the same questions every other owner has — how to price a new contract, when to expand a market, whether to invest in the next AMS — and almost nowhere to ask them. Local competitors can’t be peers. Vendors aren’t neutral. Industry events are too short and too public.
Most owners eventually accept the isolation as a tax of the job. The cooperative was built specifically because a small number of independent operators decided that tax was optional. Elite Community is what was on the other side of refusing to pay it.
If you’re a management company owner and you’re trying to do it on your own — don’t.— Mark Jones, founding member
Invitation-only intake. The cooperative has never run a paid acquisition campaign and doesn’t plan to.
At Summit, members are grouped by company size, geography, and service mix — structured to be non-competitive by design.
The annual Summit anchors the year, with peer focus groups and the member portal keeping the room connected in between.
Closed-door. No vendor floor at the Summit. What gets said in the room is the reason the room works.
Community managers, accounting managers, and business development leads have no equivalent of the owner’s peer council. Innovia builds parallel cohorts, toolkits, and portal resources for those underserved roles — because the room only works if it touches the whole organization, not just the corner office.
If you’re reading this page, you’re probably thinking through one of these. The honest answers are below; the longer conversation is a phone call away.
Yes. The cooperative has never run a paid acquisition campaign. The fastest path in is a conversation with someone already in the room.
You’re still welcome to join — as long as you’re willing to participate fully and the existing member in your market approves your inclusion.
The Summit is the headline event, but the community runs continuously underneath it — peer focus groups and the member portal keep things going between Summits. Missing one year does not put you outside the room.
A thirty-minute call to see whether your firm and the cooperative are right for each other. No pitch, no follow-up sequence.