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Long-form startup founder interviews with the people building today's SaaS and AI tools. Every interview covers the founding story, how the product actually works, the technology behind it, pricing, and the results customers see. Get your startup featured for free.
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AI SEO Strategist · Senior Digital Marketing Manager · Founder of zPlatform
Alston Antony hosts and writes every founder interview on zPlatform. With 15+ years in SEO and software and 500+ AI and SaaS tools tested hands-on, he asks the questions buyers and operators actually care about, how the product really works, what the results are, and where the category is heading, not softball PR prompts.
He is also Senior Digital Marketing Manager at Brainstorm Force, where he helps lead AI products including ZipWP, and holds an MSc in Software Engineering plus BCS Full Professional Membership. Every interview is a free editorial feature, written and promoted by zPlatform with no pay-to-play.
zPlatform publishes SaaS founder interviews, AI tools founder interviews, and startup founder stories in long form. Each one goes deep with the person who built the product: the founding story, how the tool actually works under the hood, the technology that sets it apart, the pricing calls, the real results customers see, and where the category is heading. Interviews, not press releases. If you are a founder, this is also where you can get your startup featured for free.
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CoSupport AI CEO Alex Khoroshchak on the patented zero-hallucination architecture behind a 60% resolution guarantee, $0.19-per-ticket outcome-based...
Three kinds of conversation, one format: a founder answering real questions about a real product.
How SaaS founders price, position, and grow: the pricing model behind the product, churn and retention reality, the go-to-market channels that worked, and the ones that burned budget. Written for operators evaluating the tool and founders building one.
Founders of AI tools on what runs under the hood: the models, the guardrails, the accuracy claims they will and will not make, and where the product beats a generic chatbot. Pairs with our hands-on AI tool reviews and best AI tools rankings.
Bootstrapped and early-stage startup stories: the first customer, the pivot, the funding decision, the month revenue finally covered costs. Real numbers where founders are willing to share them, no fundraising-announcement filler.
Same seven themes in every interview, so you can compare two founders on the same terms instead of reading two different marketing decks.
Prefer the buyer's side of the story? Read the hands-on AI tool reviews, the best AI tools rankings, or the current SaaS lifetime deals.
A founder interview is a long-form Q&A with the person who built the product. On zPlatform each one covers the founding story, a walkthrough of how the product works, the technology behind it, real customer results, pricing decisions, the competitive landscape, and the roadmap. It is an interview, not a press release, so answers stay in the founder's own words.
Every interview on this page is a SaaS, AI tool, or early-stage startup founder story. They are published in full on zplatform.ai, free to read, with no signup and no paywall. New founder interviews go out weekly and are also sent to the zPlatform newsletter.
Yes. AI tool founders are a core part of the series. Those interviews go deeper on the technical side: which models power the product, how accuracy is measured, what guardrails exist, and where the tool outperforms a general-purpose assistant. They complement the hands-on AI tool reviews published on zPlatform.
Submit a request on the Request an Interview page with your name, company, website, and what you want to talk about. We review every submission and reach out to founders who are a good fit. There is no cost to participate.
Yes. zPlatform founder interviews are free editorial features — there is no fee to be interviewed and no pay-to-play. We handle the questions, the writing, and the promotion. We feature founders building genuinely useful AI and SaaS products.
Founders, CEOs, and product leaders of AI and SaaS companies — early-stage or established. The best interviews come from founders who can speak candidly about how their product works, the problem it solves, real results, and where the category is heading.
Questions cover the founding story and mission, the product and how it actually works, technology and differentiation, real performance and customer results, the competitive landscape, pricing, and the roadmap. The goal is a substantive, in-depth conversation buyers and operators can learn from, not a press release.
Each interview is published on zplatform.ai with full SEO and structured data, shared across our newsletter and social channels, and surfaced on the homepage. Interviews are written to rank in search and to be cited by AI assistants, so they keep delivering reach long after launch.
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