Interviews and Press Appearances
Book Saul Fleischman for podcasts, conferences, and journalist interviews.
Schedule
Calendly embed
Calendly URL: TODO — Saul to provide booking link
While the embed is pending, please email press@mentionfox.com with proposed times and the format (audio, video, in-person, or written Q&A). Saul is in JST (UTC+9), Osaka.
Press topics — what Saul speaks about
Getting recommended by AI assistants — buyers now ask an assistant what to use. Why some brands come up in those answers and others vanish, how to measure it honestly, and what actually moves it.
One human, one AI cofounder — what it is actually like to run a company with an AI collaborator as your main technical partner: the discipline it demands, the ways it goes wrong, and the things that compound.
Background research, and where the line is — building due-diligence tooling that cites every claim: where it earns its keep (checking an investor, verifying a source, researching a donor), where it should stop, and how to respect the person being researched without making the tool useless.
Bundling and unbundling software — why merging brand monitoring, lead research and background research into one product works for small buyers when the same merge has failed for enterprise ones, and what that reveals about who is really buying.
Solo operation across five products — the tactical mechanics of running RiteKit, MentionFox, FoxAPIs, FoxChat, and GroupFinds simultaneously as one human; what to share between products, what to keep isolated.
Building from Osaka — the operational reality of running a SaaS business from outside the major US tech hubs, the network compromises, the time-zone mechanics, the things that get easier and the things that get harder.
Sample questions journalists and podcast hosts can ask
On GEO and AI-visibility
- You audited 150 Anthropic-model responses for buyer-intent SaaS prompts. What is the single most surprising finding?
- How do you measure whether a brand is "winning" with a language model when there is no public ranking and the responses change run to run?
- If you were a marketing leader at a 50-person SaaS startup today, what would you do this quarter that you would not have done last year?
- What is the role of comparison content (X-vs-Y) in language-model recommendation, and is it gameable?
On running a company with an AI cofounder
- How do you actually divide the work between yourself and your AI cofounder on a typical day?
- What kinds of work has it turned out to be surprisingly good at, and what does it still get wrong?
- What did you have to give up to operate this way? And what compounded that you did not expect?
- How do you catch the confident answer that happens to be wrong?
On research reports and where the line is
- What is the bar before MentionFox displays a fact in a dossier? And how often does that bar fail?
- Making this kind of research cheap has obvious privacy consequences. How do you handle them?
- What use cases do you support and which do you actively turn away?
- How does your engine handle subject-side identity confusion (wrong-person photo, wrong company logo)?
On building from Osaka
- What are the operational realities of running a US-customer SaaS from JST?
- How does the time zone affect customer support, and what have you optimized?
- What is the indie SaaS scene like in Japan?
On business mechanics
- What is the pricing reasoning behind merging three categories at indie price?
- What does a typical day, week, month, quarter look like?
- What is the smallest decision that compounds the most?
What works for Saul as a guest
| Format | Saul's preference |
|---|
| Long-form podcast (60-90 min) | Strong fit — depth on methodology and operation |
| Short podcast (15-30 min) | Good fit — works best around a single thesis |
| Live video / Twitter Spaces | Available, JST scheduling required |
| Conference keynote | Open — virtual preferred from Osaka, in-person possible with sufficient notice |
| Conference panel | Open — strong fit on AI/SaaS/GEO panels |
| Written Q&A / interview | Strong fit, fast turnaround |
| TV / broadcast | Available with sufficient notice |
Practical details for production
- Studio audio quality: yes, condenser mic + treated room. Wired ethernet.
- Time zone: JST (UTC+9). Best slots: 22:00-02:00 JST (US daytime), 09:00-12:00 JST (EU morning).
- Languages: English, Japanese.
- Pre-interview prep: happy to do a 15-min pre-call to align on angle, embargoed material, and which questions are off-limits (very few are).
Press contact and booking
Saul Fleischman, Founder
Email: press@mentionfox.com
Twitter / X: @thefoxsaul
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/saulfleischman
Last updated: 2026-08-17. The Calendly embed will be added once the booking URL is finalized.