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Press & media

Logos, photos, boilerplate.
And the right human to call.

Everything you need to write about mato, the only AI that interviews real humans live. Brand assets, founder photos, the sanctioned wordings, key facts, and direct contact for press inquiries. Use any of it freely. Tell us where it ran.

Founded
2024
Los Angeles, CA
Founders
Alexander & Edward Benz
Husbands. Co-founders. Co-CEOs.
Category
Live AI Media
The first generation of AI talent.
Stage
Pre-launch
4 enterprise customers · $20K MRR · seed in motion

The official boilerplate.

One-line, short, and long versions. Click any block to copy. Please don’t paraphrase the long version too aggressively. These wordings are the result of a lot of arguments.

Lowercase always · mato, even starting a sentence
One-liner · 9 words
mato is the only AI that interviews real humans, live.
Short · 65 words
mato is the AI podcast engine. AI hosts conduct live interviews with real human guests in any language, then handle every step of production: editing, transcripts, clips, cover art, and distribution to 150+ platforms. Where traditional production takes 8 to 12 hours per episode, mato compresses the workflow to 30 minutes. The company was founded in 2024 by husbands Alexander and Edward Benz, and is headquartered in Los Angeles.
Long · 145 words
mato is the AI podcast engine, the only platform where AI hosts interview real humans, live. Podcasting is the highest-trust, highest-completion marketing channel that exists: 90% of branded podcast listeners finish the episode, 54% buy what they hear, and podcast-influenced deals close at 3x the rate. The reason most companies don’t have a show is that traditional production takes 8 to 12 hours and roughly $1,500 per episode, and 90% of new podcasts die within 20 episodes. mato removes the production problem entirely. AI hosts run the interview with a real human guest. The platform handles editing, transcripts, social clips, cover art, ad insertion, and distribution to 150+ platforms. Customers go from expert to finished episode in 30 minutes. mato was founded in 2024 by husbands Alexander and Edward Benz, and is headquartered in Los Angeles.
Logos & wordmark

The wordmark.

Set in Instrument Serif. The lowercase m is essential. So is the coral blob, which functions as the dot of the i that isn’t there.

mato wordmark on cream background
Wordmark · CreamSVG · PNG
mato wordmark on ink background
Wordmark · InkSVG · PNG
mato
Wordmark · CoralSVG · PNG
01
Lowercase, always.

It’s mato. Not Mato. Not MATO. Not even at the start of a sentence. The lowercase is the brand.

02
Don’t recolor the coral.

Coral is #E9654A. Don’t lighten it for “tone.” Don’t swap it for orange. The blob and the wordmark always agree.

03
Give it room.

Clear space on every side equals the height of the lowercase m. No surrounding logos closer than that.

The blob

Not a circle. The blob.

The mark is a single hand-drawn organic form with a slight asymmetry. Never substitute a perfect circle. The blob carries the warmth that a CSS border-radius: 50% can’t. When in doubt, use the SVG provided in this kit.

Do

The brand blob from circle.svg. Always.

Don’t

A perfect circle. Loses the warmth.

Brand palette.

Cream and coral lead. Ink does the heavy lifting on text. Everything else is a supporting role.

Coral
#E9654A
Coral CTA
#F07068
Cream
#FAF7F2
Cream dark
#F0EBE1
Ink
#1A1A1A

Type system.

Three Google Fonts. Italic serif emphasis on one word per headline is the signature typographic move.

Display
Instrument Serif · 400 + italic
From expert to finished episode in 30 minutes.
Body
DM Sans · 300 to 700
AI hosts that interview real humans live, in any language. The first generation of AI talent.
Mono
DM Mono · 400 + 500
Why podcasting · 90% completion
Founders

The people behind it.

Husbands. Co-founders. Co-CEOs. They started mato because they wanted to interview people they couldn’t otherwise afford to put in front of a microphone.

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Alexander Benz
Co-founder & Co-CEO

Previously founded Blikket, a marketing agency working with technology brands. Started building mato in 2024 to promote the agency, and accidentally built the platform instead. Leads product, design, and the show network.

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Edward Benz
Co-founder & Co-CEO

Co-founded mato with Alexander. Leads engineering, AI infrastructure, and the live interview architecture. Spent the last decade shipping software for brand and creator workflows.

Key facts

The numbers we cite.

When you write about mato, these are the stats that explain the category. Sources at the bottom of every fact.

Branded podcast completion
90%

Listeners who finish the episode. Compare to 12% for video, 20-30% for blog posts.

Source: Casted / Omniscient Digital.

Listeners who buy
54%

Bought a product they heard about on a podcast.

Adopter Media, 2026.

Close-rate lift
3x

Higher close rates on podcast-influenced deals.

Fame.so B2B Trends.

Brand awareness
+89%

Higher brand awareness for companies with branded podcasts.

Omniscient Digital.

Production time
8-12 hrs → 30 min

Traditional per-episode production vs. mato's workflow.

Distribution
150+ platforms

Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon, plus passive indexing across the long tail.

Pricing floor
$1,200/mo

Launch tier. No free plan, no consumer pricing. Enterprise floor is by design.

Trust
80%

Of listeners trust the host like they trust a friend.

Acast / Nielsen.

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