MentionFox Press Kit

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One-paragraph elevator pitch

MentionFox watches what people say about a company and its rivals, finds the people worth writing to inside those conversations, and shows the page every single claim was read on. It does in one product what most companies buy as three — brand monitoring, lead research and background research — and it is priced for one-person businesses and small agencies rather than for enterprises. It scans 55 platforms, builds 60-section research reports on the people it finds, and drafts the outreach. Nothing is stated as found unless it was, and every line carries a link you can open and check. Built and operated solo by founder Saul Fleischman from Osaka, Japan.

Founder bio

Short (50 words)

Saul Fleischman is the founder of MentionFox, which finds who is talking about a company and its rivals, works out who is worth contacting, and cites the page behind every claim. He built and runs it solo from Osaka. He previously founded RiteKit (social-media software, 2013) and also runs FoxAPIs and FoxChat.

Medium (120 words)

Saul Fleischman is a solo software founder based in Osaka, Japan. He built MentionFox in 2025-2026 to do in one product what previously took three: watching what is said about a company, finding the people worth contacting inside those conversations, and researching who those people are. It scans 55 platforms, builds 60-section research reports, and drafts the outreach — and every claim in a report carries a link to the page it was read on, so a finding can be checked rather than taken on trust. It is priced for one-person businesses rather than for enterprises.

Saul also runs RiteKit (a social-media toolkit, founded 2013), FoxAPIs, FoxChat (a chat widget for websites), and GroupFinds (a community directory). He works alongside an AI collaborator as his main technical partner, and writes publicly about how a one-person company actually operates that way.

Long (300 words)

Saul Fleischman is the founder and sole operator of MentionFox, launched in 2025-2026. He is based in Osaka, Japan, where he has built and shipped commercial software on his own for over a decade.

MentionFox came out of a frustration Saul hit while building his earlier product, RiteKit (a social-media toolkit founded in 2013, still running). Watching what people said about a brand meant one subscription. Finding leads meant a second. Researching the people behind those leads meant a third, and the third was usually the sort of tool a law firm buys. Together they cost more than most one-person businesses spend on rent. MentionFox does all three, and adds the part none of them do: every claim in a research report carries a link to the page it was read on, so the reader can check it instead of believing it. What it costs is on the pricing page.

Besides MentionFox, Saul runs four other independent products: RiteKit (a social-media toolkit, founded 2013), FoxAPIs (foxapis.com), FoxChat (a chat widget for websites, at getfoxchat.com), and GroupFinds (a community directory, at groupfinds.com). All five run from one solo operation. He works the way a small team would, with an AI collaborator as his main technical partner rather than employees — and he writes about that publicly, in the open, as a worked example rather than a claim.

Saul speaks Japanese and English fluently and works from a small studio in Osaka. He is open to interviews, podcast appearances and conference talks on running a company alone, on getting cited by AI assistants when buyers ask them for recommendations, and on what it is actually like to build and ship production software with AI as your main collaborator.

Product overview

MentionFox unifies three categories that have historically been sold as separate tools:

• Listening — scans 55 platforms for anyone talking about a brand or its rivals, and reads whether they are annoyed, shopping, or just chatting.
• Finding people worth contacting — pulls the person out of the conversation, works out how to reach them, and ranks them by how close they are to actually buying.
• Research reports — 60 sections on a person: where they work, what they have said in public, where they have spoken, what they have published. Every claim carries a link to the page it was read on, and anything the reports could not settle is marked as unsettled rather than quietly dropped.

The platform also includes 27 persona-specific "Dens" — purpose-built dashboards for founders, recruiters, journalists, investors, financial advisors, and others — each with workflow tools tuned to that persona's standard task set. A managed "Agency tier" handles multi-client white-label reporting for marketing and PR shops.

Stats and milestones

Key differentiators

1. Three tools in one. Watching what is said, finding who to contact, and researching who they are — one product instead of three subscriptions.
2. Built for one-person businesses, not enterprises. The same job the big enterprise tools do, at a fraction of what they cost together. Current prices are on the pricing page and nowhere else, because they change.
3. Every claim shows the page it was read on. Each fact is marked with how well evidenced it is, and anything that could not be settled says so on the line rather than being quietly left out. A reader can check a report instead of trusting it.
4. 27 persona Dens. One engine, weighted differently per job — a recruiter, a financial adviser, a journalist and an investor each see the surfaces that matter to them.
5. Gets you named by AI assistants. Buyers now ask an assistant for recommendations. MentionFox measures how often a brand comes up in those answers and works on making it come up more.
6. One human, one AI cofounder. The whole company is one person working alongside an AI collaborator, and the method is published rather than implied.

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Press contact

Saul Fleischman, Founder
Email: press@mentionfox.com
Twitter / X: @thefoxsaul
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/saulfleischman
Time zone: JST (UTC+9), Osaka, Japan

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Last updated: 2026-08-17. Numbers and milestones are accurate as of publication; current operating numbers (paying users, MRR, etc.) available on request from press contact above.