Elio Narciso

Scalestack 2025 Wrapped is here! It was an awesome year! linkedin.com/posts/elionarc…

So the US Military yearly budget is $900B something, with (it depends on the source) around $40B devoted to ‘munitions’. And, after 1 WEEK of war, in one place, the Pentagon needs to RUSH to get MORE CASH to replenish the munition stockpiles? Sounds insane. wsj.com/politics/natio…?

Was super lucky to spend a few days in Rome for a mix of family and business — and got invited to visit Palazzo Barberini. At some point you end up in the Gran Salone, the biggest room in the building, and I was… completely floored by the ceiling. Above you is Pietro da Cortona’s fresco known as “The Triumph of Divine Providence” (also aptly called “Allegory of Divine Providence and Barberini Power”), commissioned by the Barberini family in the 1630s. The Barberini story alone is crazy. They began as successful Florentine grain, wool, and textile merchants, fighting for space in a world dominated by families like the Medici. Then everything changed when Cardinal Maffeo Barberini was elected Pope in 1623 and became Urban VIII (you know, when popes were princes, could marry, accumulate wealth etc.). Overnight, the family moved from wealthy outsiders to the very center of European power. Palazzo Barberini was their statement piece — not just a residence, but a monument to legitimacy, ambition, and permanence. There’s even a rumor saying that marble for the palace was taken from the Colosseum...and people whispered at the time (and now) “What the barbarians did not do, the Barberini did.” But going back to the ceiling - it’s not “one painting.” It’s an engineered world. The vault is split by a painted (fake) marble framework into five sections—one central, four lateral—so your eye has structure while everything else explodes into motion. At the center, Divine Providence literally instructs Fame to crown the Barberini bees (the symbol of the family). Around it, virtues conquer chaos, order defeats vice, and history is rewritten in paint. It’s a political narrative told in mythology. Pietro da Cortona worked on this for roughly seven years (1632-1639). What’s wild is that the fresco was reportedly almost finished earlier — then he chose to go back and rework large parts of it before final completion. And in the meantime, Pope Urban VIII became impatient with using the Palazzo and the Gran Salone, so there were no structures on the floor...Cortona had to work "hanging" from the ceiling while the Pope and his friends could enjoy the rest of the gigantic room. This is peak competitive Rome: big patrons, reputations on the line, and major contemporaries/rivals in the same city. Cortona's contemporaries and rivals were giants like Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Francesco Borromini. Why am I telling you this story? well first because i enjoyed it deeply and it elevated my spirit to look at all of this in a beautiful sunny winter day surrounded by my parents and family. But also because I thought about what I am building and...everything that worries me in building as a founder...competition, the speed at which we need to do things, the grit it requires...Seeing something this ambitious — created in a ruthless, political, hyper-competitive environment — somehow put all of that into perspective...and inspired me. And I wanted to share it! Go see it!

2025 was relentless—and we loved every minute of it 💪 Our team worked harder this year than ever before—and the results speak for themselves 📈 Here's what we built in 2025, and why we're more energized than ever for 2026: linkedin.com/feed/update/ur… #Scalestack #AutonomousRevenueEngine #Wrapped2025

@amazon ai styler styled a hoodie on an uploaded photo of me. Ok.

@RpsAgainstTrump 🤣🤣🤣

Q: A number of Republicans have denounced your statement on Rob Reiner. Do you stand by it? Trump: He was a deranged person as far as Trump is concerned…I thought he was very bad for our country

@BrownHeverly @MostlyPeaceful @JackPosobiec Ahahaha sure sure 👍🏼- a true uniter

@MostlyPeaceful @JackPosobiec Agreed

Rob Reiner called for Trump to be jailed over lies Not surprised Trump said what he said

Squeezed in one last business trip before the end of the year — and it took me to a city I’d never been to before: Salt Lake City! And wow… it was awesome. From the moment I landed, the landscape was stunning and the energy was strong but calm, and...I learned so much. I learned that SLC is a not-so-secret tech hub anymore, nestled in what’s known as the Silicon Slopes — a huge ecosystem leveraging the incredible local tech talent and attracting innovators and innovation from across the U.S. I dove into the local culture and history, had energizing conversations with customers, partners, and investors, and genuinely felt welcomed everywhere I went. Also, as an Italian, I firmly believe the best conversations happen over meals — let’s just say I had plenty of them 😄🍝 (and nobody let me pay!). Special shoutout to Jay Choi from Typeform, Ryan Westwood and Dylan Ferguson from Fullcast, Justin Shriber from Terret, and Elisabeth Green from Sorenson — thank you for the incredible hospitality and inspiring conversations. Already looking forward to the next visit. 🙌✈️

Trust the #ai intelligence. #gtm #ops #enterprise @ScalestackAI

From hundreds of our customers and prospects calls, these are the Top 10 hashtag#Enterprise GTM Pain Points directly from transcripts: 😨 Dirty, duplicated, or outdated CRM data 😨 Manual pre-contact research by reps 😨 Lack of reliable or dynamic account prioritization 😨 Broken or overly complex parent/child hierarchies 😨 Territory mapping is static or misaligned 😨 RevOps teams overwhelmed with maintenance and patchwork fixes 😨 Fragmented enrichment sources, with no orchestration layer 😨 Trust issues with data quality, reps avoid CRM 😨 Desire for confidence scores to validate enrichment logic 😨 Frustration with hard-to-maintain go-to-market workflows If in the Wong-Baker Faces pain rating scale, you are at 6 or above on any of these...we built Scalestack from the ground up for you. With a pre-built agentic workflow fit for enterprise scale, deployed in 1 week, integrated in your systems and running autonomously...we can fix your boo boo. It's holiday (and planning) season. Should be a wonderful time of the year. Let us help you!

Love this. @mowwat explaining how he is building #whispered leveraging @ScalestackAI #agentic workflows...while we show the workflows themselves on a split screen. 😎

Episode 17 of our Revenue Engine Master Podcast is live! @mbodensteiner14 at Engine has spent her career building and rebuilding systems under real pressure — healthcare, HR tech, now travel — and you can tell. She thinks in product terms, not “ticket terms.” Pods, ownership lines, clean start/stop definitions, thoughtful speed instead of endless planning… this is how high-performing ops teams operate. There’s something I’ve seen over and over: people who come up through #marketing #ops (like Mollie) bring a different edge. They understand tools and tech, data, experimentation, and automation at a level that’s inherently tied to outcomes. That shows in how she hires, how she sets priorities, and how she avoids the firefighting trap that so many ops teams fall into. We also dug into hashtag#AI in a very real way: - How to pick a single use case, ship it fast, learn fast, and avoid the “boil the ocean” mistake that kills most enterprise pilots. - and this was my favourite quote: "Ops leaders who succeed aren’t the most technical — they understand human behavior. They design intuitive processes that make complex feel simple." A lot of this thinking maps directly to the work we’re doing at Scalestack. We think the future of AI is *autonomous*: freeing people from the grunt work so they can actually analyze, think, and design better systems, the human way. Check for the full episode scalestack.ai/blog/from-fire…

Can't wait to go to beautiful #Chicago next week! I’m co-hosting two very different, very operator-driven GTM sessions back-to-back, and if you’re in town, you should come. 📌 Tuesday, Nov 18 — Revenue Engine Masters - Dinner Series - Co-hosted with @awscloud (AWS) and #Terret 6:00 PM | A small-room, deep-dive dinner with GTM and GTM Ops leaders on how teams are actually building modern revenue engines: clean data, agentic workflows, real-time enrichment, ICP alignment, and eliminating the “manual work tax.” No slides, no pitches — just real operator (and "jeffersonian"!) conversation around the table. (With great drinks and food in one of my favorite "foodie" cities!) 📌 Wednesday, Nov 19 — Fall CRO Roundtable (together with @warrenzenna / CROCollective, @fullcast_com , and #Orbb) 2:30–5:30 PM | A bigger-format CRO discussion on what’s working, what’s breaking, and how GTM teams are adapting their playbooks for 2026 and beyond. Followed by cocktails & dinner :). If you’re in Chicago — or have a colleague who’d get value from either session — DM me and I’ll try to squeeze you in. luma.com/CROChicago luma.com/3nfcpfiz

Had an amazing time at the #italianconsulatenyc, together with @mtcometto nyc italian #consul Fabrizio Di Michele, deputy Marta Mammana and @FedericoRampini in the audience (great questions of course!) talking about #tech #ai #entrepreneurship and more. Ps: @baselinescene I shared some of the things we learned at #entreprenuershipwithoutborders!!!

95% of enterprise AI projects fail. Why? Because companies are automating the wrong things. While everyone’s focused on replacing human interactions, the real ROI is hiding in the back office — in the tedious, manual data work nobody wants to do anyway. That’s what we call the Manual Work Tax — and it’s exactly what @ScalestackAI eliminates. The results: → Redis: data hygiene from 40% → 90% → MongoDB: hours of manual work gone → Redis VP Sales: finally trusting data to assign territories 🎙️ Hear our co-founder & CEO @elius on the Front Lines podcast — on why GTM teams don’t need “AI that sells.” They need AI that fixes the back office. 👉 frontlines.io/podcasts/elio-… #AI #RevOps #ManualWorkTax #GTM #Automation #Scalestack

@mtcometto @ScalestackAI @caracol_am @ItalyinNY Maria Teresa always the best!

#italian #startups in #newyork #nyc So much #talent! @elius @ScalestackAI #paolocassis @caracol_am #francescapipino #learndetect @ItalyinNY 💚🇮🇹🇺🇸 from #italy to #america and the #world #tech #robotic #3DPrinting #AI #artificialintelligence #madeinitaly

Looking forward to speaking at the annual Super AI ML Summit in NYC on Oct 30! In partnership with #NYC Mayor’s Office for International Affairs, @NYCEDC, @CivicHall, and @TeamSupermomos, are bringing together the brightest minds in #AI & #ML for a day supercharged with insight. Register with my name as the special access code for priority access and expedited review: summit.supermomos.com (click "Join Us" to go to the RSVP page) I'm going to moderate a panel with @AnthropicAI's Chloe Ho, and @Google's Jon Flynn to give a perspective on go-to-market in the age of AI.

@PLBompard @ScalestackAI : autonomous GTM workflows for the enterprise. DM for deck (= the “Box” version to Clay’s or n8n's “Dropbox”)

Pitch your startup - Max 4 words - Share link if you have one 👀 Seen by 160k people last month 📈 YES, this is marketing - GO!

Every time I’m back in Boston, I get a little sentimental — I studied there, and it’s where so much of my journey started. This week we hosted our latest Revenue Engine Masters dinner in Boston — co-hosted by @awscloud, @Scalestack, and Terret — bringing together an incredible group of revenue leaders. The convo (once I was able to reach the right restaurant...there are many Davio's!) was super lively and fun...we talked about how modern GTM teams are moving beyond fragmented tech stacks and manual processes to build scalable, AI-powered revenue engines...and maybe finally filling some gaps that big CRMs should have solved ages ago. Big thanks to everyone who joined and shared insights — Boston’s Revenue brain trust never disappoints 💡 #RevenueEngineMasters #RevOps #AI #GTM #Boston