For AI & Software Founders
zPlatform is a research and discovery platform first: buyers come here to compare AI tools. This page is the other side of that, for the founders shipping them. Everything below is something we operate ourselves, which is the only kind of help worth buying from a publisher.
- Get found by buyers
The reviews, rankings and best-of lists themselves
The core of the site is 66 hands-on reviews and 23 best-of lists, ranked from testing rather than vendor claims. Buyers arrive here already comparing tools, which is the audience your product needs to be in front of.
See how we review - Get reviewed
Hands-on video and written review service
We install your product, use it in a real workflow, and publish an in-depth video review plus a matching written review. Sponsorship is disclosed and the verdict stays ours to write — that is what makes the coverage worth having.
Video review service - Get listed
A zPlatform listing, review queue place or deal listing
Free to submit, with no pay-to-list tier. Tools that clear first-round inspection get a directory listing; selected tools get a hands-on review and a product video.
Submit your AI tool - Get distributed
Manual SaaS and AI directory submission
Submission by hand to vetted platforms picked from the database of 348 directories, launch platforms, review marketplaces and communities we maintain ourselves. You approve the list first and get an itemised report after. Pre-launch: pricing goes to the waitlist first.
Join the waitlist - Build third-party presence
Affiliate program visibility
List your program in a directory of 109 AI affiliate programs that marketers and creators search when picking what to promote. Base listings are free and sorted on verified commission rate.
Submit your program - Prioritise your own SEO
ZRank — our SaaS SEO tool and AI Search agent
Software, not a service. ZRank connects Google Search Console to your product, ships five prioritised revenue-focused actions a week, finds missing bottom-of-funnel pages, queues internal links and ties organic search to trials and MRR. In final testing.
See ZRank - Publish your story
Founder interviews
A long-form interview about what you built and what you learned, published to an audience of software buyers and founders. Editorial, and pitched on the substance you can share.
Request an interview - Contribute
Guest contributions
Hands-on writing on AI tools and SaaS from credentialed contributors, held to the same standards as our own coverage. No payment in either direction.
Write for us
Need SEO strategy rather than a zPlatform product?
Then you want a person or an agency, not a publisher. We keep this boundary explicit because blurring it is how a research platform quietly turns into a third SEO shop.
- An individual specialist
- Alston Antony — SaaS SEO & AI Search expert, and founder of zPlatform. He takes a small number of advisory engagements a year, through his own site.
- An agency to implement it
- Maxinium — an SEO company working across Google and AI search. Relevant only if you want done-for-you implementation.
- Software instead of people
- ZRank — our own SaaS SEO tool and AI Search agent. This one is a zPlatform product, which is why it lives here and the two above do not.
Founder Services FAQ
Can I pay for a positive verdict or a higher ranking?
No, and that is not a formality. Sponsorship covers research, production, publication and distribution. The verdict, the ranking position and the best-of inclusion stay editorial, sponsored reviews carry a disclosure, and affiliate links regularly sit on tools we gave a Skip verdict. If a favourable opinion is what you want to buy, we are the wrong vendor.
Does zPlatform do SaaS SEO or AI SEO consulting?
No. zPlatform sells what it operates: reviews, listings, directory distribution, affiliate visibility, founder interviews and the ZRank product. SaaS SEO and AI-search strategy is founder Alston Antony's own practice at alstonantony.com. If you want an agency to implement rather than advise, that is Maxinium. Three different things, three different places.
What can you actually promise about rankings and AI citations?
Nothing, and you should distrust anyone who does. Some published reviews have ranked on page one and been cited in AI-generated answers — the proof section shows the screenshots. Those are documented outcomes on specific reviews, not a forecast for yours. Search results move and AI answers are non-deterministic. What is actually being sold is the research, the production and the distribution.
Do directory listings improve my rankings?
They create discoverable third-party mentions, can contribute to entity consistency, can send referral traffic, and can create link opportunities. What they do not do is guarantee a ranking increase or an AI recommendation. See the directory database, which publishes Domain Rating, listing cost and link type for every entry so you can judge each venue yourself.
Who actually does the work?
Alston Antony, founder of zPlatform — the same named person who tests every tool on the site. Not an anonymous account-manager-fronted team, and not an offshore queue. His full professional biography is at alstonantony.com.