person
also known as Paul

Cofounder of Syntopic and one of the podcast's two hosts. In episode 01 he steers: he asks where the company came from, takes the part of a skeptical podcaster, and raises the trust question before a listener has to. Start with episode 01 at about ten minutes, where he argues from the customer's side.

Across the episodes

01

Enters as the host who asks the customer's questions and the skeptic's

Paul argues from the customer's chair, voicing the already-successful podcaster the pitch has to win over.

"I'm a podcaster. I'm a new scaling podcaster with..."
Paul Salazarasserted#
Paul Salazar, Syntopic, Episode 1 (11 Oct 2026), 9:52

He brings the trust problem into the open himself, which turns the episode's second half from pitch to defense.

"here's the elephant in the room let's call it out how do i know that what Syntopic produces is the right stuff we could talk ad nauseum about ai slop hallucination"
Paul Salazarasserted#
Paul Salazar, Syntopic, Episode 1 (11 Oct 2026), 24:49

Reframes the savings figure: the value is not only cheaper work but work that would otherwise not be done at all.

"Not to mention the fact that the platform itself creates an opportunity to even do this in the first place."
Paul Salazarasserted#
Paul Salazar, Syntopic, Episode 1 (11 Oct 2026), 32:50

Connections

cofoundedSyntopic

He opens by placing augmented intelligence at the company's core.

speaks forPodcasters

He takes the podcaster's side to test the pitch.