MentionFox Press Kit

For journalists, reviewers, podcast hosts, and conference organizers.

One-paragraph elevator pitch

MentionFox is a B2B social listening, lead generation, and OSINT platform that combines functionality enterprise customers usually buy as three separate tools (a Brandwatch, an Apollo, a Pipl) into a single product priced for indie operators and small agencies. It scans 50+ platforms for brand mentions, surfaces leads inside those conversations, builds 60-section dossiers on the people behind them, and launches outreach in one flow. It is built and operated solo by founder Saul Fleischman from Osaka, Japan.

Founder bio

Short (50 words)

Saul Fleischman is the founder of MentionFox, a B2B social listening and OSINT platform he built and operates solo from Osaka. He previously founded RiteKit (social-media SaaS, 2013), and contributes to FoxAPIs and FoxChat under the same independent operator umbrella.

Medium (120 words)

Saul Fleischman is a solo software founder based in Osaka, Japan. He built MentionFox in 2025-2026 as a unification of the brand-monitoring, lead-discovery, and OSINT-dossier categories that until now required stitching three separate tools together. MentionFox scans 50-plus platforms for brand mentions, identifies leads from those conversations, builds 60-section research dossiers on the people behind them, and launches outreach — all in one product, priced for indie operators rather than enterprise.

Saul also operates RiteKit (social-media toolkit, founded 2013), FoxAPIs (developer API wrapper), FoxChat (embedded chat-widget SaaS), and GroupFinds (community directory). He builds with Claude as primary technical collaborator, and writes publicly about the discipline of solo-founder operation under AI co-authorship.

Long (300 words)

Saul Fleischman is the founder and sole operator of MentionFox, a B2B social listening, lead generation, and OSINT platform launched in 2025-2026. He is based in Osaka, Japan, where he has built and shipped commercial software products independently for over a decade.

MentionFox emerged from a frustration Saul encountered while building his earlier product, RiteKit (a social-media toolkit founded in 2013, still operating). Brand monitoring required Brandwatch or Mention. Lead generation required Apollo or Clay. Person research required Pipl or LexisNexis. The three tools cost together more than most indie founders spend on rent. MentionFox merges them into a single product at indie pricing, with an OSINT engine that produces 60-section dossiers from public-source data — work that previously required either a paid analyst or a $20K-per-year LexisNexis seat.

In addition to MentionFox, Saul operates four other independent products: RiteKit (social-media toolkit, founded 2013), FoxAPIs (developer API wrapper at foxapis.com), FoxChat (embedded chat-widget SaaS at getfoxchat.com), and GroupFinds (Discord-bot community directory at groupfinds.com). All five run from a single solo operation. Saul's working pattern combines deep platform engineering with rapid iteration alongside Claude (Anthropic's frontier model) as primary technical collaborator — a pattern he writes about publicly as a working example of the solo-founder + AI cofounder model.

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 solo-founder operation, OSINT methodology, GEO (Generative Engine Optimization), and the mechanics of building production SaaS with AI as primary collaborator.

Product overview

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

• Social listening — scans 50+ platforms for brand or topic mentions; surfaces sentiment, intent, and competitive context.
• Lead generation — extracts leads from inside those mentions, enriches with verified contact info, scores by buying-stage intent.
• OSINT dossier engine — generates 60-section research dossiers on people from public-source data (employment, public posts, podcasts, education, public records where applicable).

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 merged into one. Brand monitoring + lead gen + OSINT dossiers in a single product. Most users would otherwise pay for three separate subscriptions.
2. Indie pricing on enterprise functionality. Sub-$200 tier covers what would be $20K+ a year if assembled from Brandwatch + Apollo + LexisNexis.
3. 60-section dossiers from public sources. Tiered confidence (verified / high / probable / candidate) so users see how well-evidenced each fact is, never silently dropped.
4. 27 persona Dens. Same OSINT spine, signal weighting tuned per persona — a recruiter, a financial advisor, a journalist, and an investor each see different surfaces from the same engine.
5. GEO/AI-visibility built in. MentionFox tracks how often LLMs (Claude, GPT-4, Gemini) recommend brands and provides actionable analytics for improving that recommendation rate.
6. Solo + AI cofounder operation. The whole company is one human plus Claude. Public methodology and case study for the model.

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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

For interview requests, see /press/interviews/. For data-partnership inquiries (we share aggregated LLM-recommendation data with select publications), see /press/data-partnership/.

Last updated: 2026-05-10. This page is press kit v0.1 for MentionFox. Numbers and milestones are accurate as of publication; current operating numbers (paying users, MRR, etc.) available on request from press contact above.