Product Executive · Platform Strategist

Ali Sadat

I build platforms that define categories — API-first, data-driven, built for the agentic era.

SVP Product Management at ZoomInfo, architecting the GTM Intelligence Platform. Previously led platform and AI products at Seismic, Medallia, Salesforce, and AppZen across fifteen years of B2B SaaS.

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Building

ZoomInfo's GTM Intelligence Platform — an API-first, metadata-driven foundation that powers enterprise go-to-market at scale.

Thinking About

What it actually takes to make AI agents work in enterprise — clean data, canonical models, real interoperability. The foundation nobody talks about.

Focused On

Event-driven architecture, the platform vs. application distinction, and why per-user pricing is quietly becoming obsolete.

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Jun 2, 2026

"PRDs are dead."

I've been seeing this take all over my feed lately. No. Waterfall PRDs were dead. In 2001. The Agile Manifesto killed the 50-page requirements contract 25 years ago, long before AI entered the conversation. "Working software over comprehens…

May 28, 2026

Speed is not velocity. Velocity is not precision. Precision is not truth.

The AI industry has conflated all three. Here's what that costs us. 1. Speed without direction is just a faster way to go wrong. Trillion-token training runs and shattered benchmarks are impressive. But if you're sprinting toward a cliff, s…

May 28, 2026

The Anatomy of Motion

Speed is just a number. A blind rush forward. Velocity gives that motion meaning. 50 m/s North But direction alone isn't enough. A fraction of a degree can be the difference between landing on the moon and disappearing into space.

May 27, 2026

Gotta love those vanity posts about how big your AI bill is -- as if that's a measure of outcome. This is just replacing

Tokenmaxxing cannot be a real enterprise strategy. Uber burned through its entire 2026 Claude Code budget by April. The COO then acknowledged there's no clear link yet between higher token usage and shipping products consumers actually find…

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