From Success To Lesson Learned,

My journey is driven by a deep research and a grounded perspective. I build companies with passion and an understanding that every step is part of the adventure

The Prompt Compactor

by | February 5, 2026 | AI & Prompting, PoliticQ | 0 Comments

LLM Prompt compaction: If you need a HUGE number of API calls to power your business, experiment with prompt compaction. I developed a compaction prompt that reduced my tokens and total cost by almost 50%. Follow me on LinkedIn to get regular updates. linkedin.com/in/donatodiorio A universal meta-prompt that reduces any LLM system prompt by 40-50% without changing what it does. Only how it says it. If you run batch LLM workloads, your system...

The Clean CRM and the Intervention vs. Automation Decision

by | February 5, 2026 | Apple, CRM, data|z | 0 Comments

Originally posted Dec 26, 2013 on DonatoDiorio.com) What and when to automate and when to intervene is one of the most far reaching decisions you will make on the journey to a clean CRM.  In fact, this automation vs. intervention decision quandary will impact all processes in your business.  Instead of an in-depth how-to-clean your CRM tutorial, I thought I’d share some simple axioms that I base my decisions on when bringing efficiency and...

What happens to my iTunes music after I die?

by | February 5, 2026 | Apple, Philosophy | 0 Comments

Originally posted Oct 8, 2011 on DonatoDiorio.com What happens to my iTunes music after I die? It’s been something I’ve been thinking about.  Now that Steve Jobs has left us, it’s come to the top of my mind. For months I’ve been looking on iTunes at the Beatles complete collection.  It is around $100, a $9.99 download does not make be think, but $100 makes me stop and contemplate. When I die… can I leave my vast iTunes music collection to my...

The Pitch Slap: Why Your LinkedIn Outreach Isn’t Working

by | February 5, 2026 | LinkedIn | 0 Comments

95% of LI outreach over one paragraph is **perceived** as spam. Think about that before sending. 99% for first outreach that includes a calendar link. Now called a “pitch slap.” Pitch slap formula: Intro/Who they are What they do Who they helped “companies like yours” but rarely true Calendar link After my supposition, I went and researched and found this article. My hunch is off by 0.12%   (luck?)...

Deep Dive into hidden and protected pages – new sourcing technique “cache windowing”

by | February 2, 2026 | Recruiting, Sourcing | 0 Comments

(originally posted May 5, 2011 on DonatoDiorio.com) I’ve tried this and it works every time.  How long it will work, who knows. If you google a specific page and then search the page again… but this time using the last few words from the excerpt of the page results… you can use this technique to actually scroll through an entire web page. It’s like peering through a small cache window a section of the page at a time. Resumes sites, Linkedin,...

One reason for CRM failure; The Nature of Contact Information

by | February 2, 2026 | CRM | 0 Comments

Originally posted Apr 23, 2009 on DonatoDiorio.com Most CRM implementations fail.  This is a fact.  Look it up. In my years in the industry, I’ve worked with many vendors on the consulting side to help reduce the possibility of CRM failure.  While there is a whole host of reason that failure occurs, I have a very unique perspective into one of those reasons.  The Nature of Contact Information. The nature of contact information is fairly finite...

The decline of Apps and the rise of Agents and Clewds

by | February 2, 2026 | Clewd, Predictions | 0 Comments

(Originally posted October 5, 2011 On DonatoDioiro.com) Last week, while presenting a live webinar “The Near and Far Future of Recruiting” I had an epiphany.  I was talking about the eventual decline (or morphing) of Facebook.  The theory is this: Mobile computing power in 10 years will be server-capable.  Add in violation of trust and general mistrust of social networks.  The result is peer-peer social networking.  No Facebook needed. ...

Founder / CEO

Data cleanse for M&A

Beta -> MVP

5 million records in 1 minute. Don’t wait months for a data cleanse. data|z eliminates chaos during acquisitions, mergers, and CRM/ERP transitions. Near zero downtime. Built for scale.

Founder / CEO

Political data analytics

Alpha -> Beta

PoliticQ brings clarity to political identity, revealing not how far apart we feel, but how close we truly are. It’s a new lens for engagement, to help you find common ground in conversation and to better align with candidates who truly reflect your beliefs.

Founder / CEO

Productivity tech

Proof of concept -> Alpha

Helping the world move to a 4 day work week. Productivity software to save you 15 seconds each minute and 15 minutes in every hour. (AAA) Analysis, AI agents & Atomic tools.

Co-Founder / Co-CEO

Cultural alignment SaaS

R&D -> Proof of concept

Utilized historic and current data, trends, and AI to measure and optimize 2 disparate company cultures at CultureSync.ai. Implemented training programs to align cultures for maximum performance and profit. Successfully integrated AI tools to analyze cultural dynamics and drive strategic decision-making.

Founder / CEO

Real time list creation

Merged with Ringlead, 2015

Real-time web crawling and data-mining products that extracted and standardized contact data from structured and unstructured sources at scale.

Founder / CEO

Data orchestration

Acquired by Zoominfo, 2021

Data-orchestration and revenue-ops automation platform that helps go-to-market teams combine, cleanse/dedupe, enrich, and route customer data across systems like CRMs and MAPs. Its workflow-driven data hygiene and routing capabilities turn fragmented lead/account data into actionable signals for segmentation, scoring, and activation.

Founder / CEO

SaaS attorney database

Acquired by Leopard Solutions, 2016

Online web portal consisting of the largest database of Attorneys wrapped in a powerful web interface. AttorneyPeople consisted of 260,000+ Associates and Partners from the top 6400 law firms.

Founder / CEO

Email intel

Acquired by Broadlook, 2005

Real-time email intelligence reporting system.

Founder / Architect

Real time event search

R&D

Real-time event search engine using local LLMs for on-device processing. Holy crap, this isn’t your granddad’s scraping anymore. I needed a real-world build to learn, so why not ship a product while I’m at it?

Founder / Architect

Real time sports analytics

R&D

Real-time sports analytics

Founder / Architect

Real time writing assistant

Alpha

Real-time writing assistant