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@dsnestle
Chief Product and Intelligence Officer at Lilypath
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8.6/10
Assessed 2/22/2026
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Daniel (Dan) Nestle is the Co-Founder and Chief Product & Intelligence Officer of Lilypath™, the company behind the patent-pending Authority Intelligence™ platform — built to help professionals govern how they are interpreted, categorized, and ranked by AI systems over time. As CPIO, Dan owns AI product intelligence and technical credibility — ensuring Lilypath's methodology, models, and differentiation are rigorous and defensible.
Dan is the creator of the Lilypath methodology and the architect of its Authority Intelligence™ engine. He designed the scoring models, prompt architecture, and generation logic that power every Comprehensive Blueprint, and he maintains the quality standards and technical truth that protect Lilypath's credibility with investors, partners, and customers. He owns the evolution of Lilypath's proprietary intelligence framework and validates all product capability claims before they reach the market.
Dan brings more than two decades of global marketing communications leadership, with deep expertise in translating complex AI capabilities into defensible, scalable product infrastructure. He began his career in Tokyo as a writing and editing consultant, spending his first decade building global communications programs in Japan. After returning to the United States, he spent 15+ years leading global marketing communications and public relations for Japanese multinationals including MHI and LIXIL, consistently driving innovation across global teams. In 2024, he founded Inquisitive Communications, where he developed and deployed proprietary systems that transform executive expertise into market authority — the strategic foundation underlying Lilypath's methodology.
Dan is recognized as a leading technical authority at the intersection of AI and professional communications — named a PRWeek Dashboard 25 AI Pioneer (2023, 2024), a Propel 100 Most Influential PR Tech Leader Worldwide (2025), and the sole global recipient of the Page Society Innovation Award (2022). He is the host of The Trending Communicator podcast and co-author of The Most Amazing Marketing Book Ever. He lived and worked in Japan for 16 years and is fluent in Japanese.
Generated 2/24/2026
Daniel Nestle is a communications leader turned AI product architect with over two decades of global marketing experience, now building at a level that rivals small engineering teams as a solo operator.
Daniel designs production-grade AI systems with remarkable sophistication: he architects scoring models and prompt logic powering a patent-pending SaaS platform, builds competitive intelligence dashboards in a single day, and maintains closed-loop QA agents with automated pipelines running on scheduled workers. His prompt engineering reflects deep mechanistic understanding, and his multi-tool orchestration across Claude, Gemini, and NotebookLM demonstrates genuine systems-level thinking.
These capabilities position Daniel to define an emerging category: Authority Intelligence. As AI reshapes how professionals are discovered and evaluated, his rare combination of communications expertise and hands-on AI architecture makes him uniquely equipped to build the infrastructure others will eventually need.
Sixteen years in Tokyo, fluent Japanese, a PRWeek AI Pioneer designation, and a live platform already in market: the full story is worth exploring.
Created the Authority Intelligence™ methodology and built the patent-pending platform that helps professionals govern how they are interpreted, categorized, and ranked by AI systems over time. As CPIO, I own AI product intelligence and technical credibility — ensuring Lilypath's methodology, models, and differentiation are rigorous and defensible. I designed the scoring models, prompt architecture, and generation logic that power every Comprehensive Blueprint™ — Lilypath's core deliverable providing professionals with a diagnostic record of how AI interprets their authority, along with strategic guidance to make that interpretation accurate and governable. Key responsibilities: → Methodology architecture: Created and maintain the framework, including the "Profile as AI Prompt" diagnostic model, AI Readiness scoring across five weighted dimensions, and the Authority Lifecycle Framework → Product intelligence: Own the evolution of Lilypath's proprietary platform, from initial Blueprint delivery through planned Authority Signals™ and Authority Pulse™ monitoring capabilities → Technical credibility: Validate all product capability claims before they reach the market — every assertion about AI behavior, methodology effectiveness, and platform capabilities meets an evidence standard grounded in published research and sound AI principles → Quality standards: Maintain the quality threshold that protects Lilypath's reputation with customers, partners, and investors The same strategic thinking that powers executive positioning engagements at Inquisitive Communications is built into Lilypath's platform — making it accessible, scalable, and defensible.
Founded the advisory practice where the diagnostic frameworks and executive positioning methodologies that became Lilypath's foundation were developed, tested, and validated with senior leaders across industries.
The proprietary influence-building systems created here - including the WAVE System™ (Win Attention → Achieve Visibility → Validate Trust → Establish Influence), Intellectual Archaeology™ for extracting tacit expertise from decades of practitioner experience, and the Executive Influence Engine™ - now inform both Lilypath's intelligence layer and my strategic advisory work with leaders navigating AI's transformation of communications and reputation.
Currently focused on:
→ Strategic advisory for leaders and organizations navigating AI's impact on communications, influence, and executive positioning → Speaking and workshops on influence engineering, AI-era communications strategy, and systematic expertise transformation → Advisory board roles at the intersection of communications, AI, and professional identity
Key contributions during this period:
• Developed the diagnostic assessment framework that became Lilypath's patent-pending Authority Intelligence methodology • Advised senior leaders on influence architecture for premium positioning, board readiness, and strategic exits Created proprietary systems for extracting and codifying tacit expertise into defensible intellectual property • Built the practitioner evidence base validating that professional profiles function as AI prompts
Recognition: Propel 100 Most Influential PR Tech Leaders Worldwide (2025), PRWeek Dashboard 25 (2023, 2024), Page Society Innovation Award (2022).