Our story
We got tired of watching great emails go to spam.
MailPilot started as a shared frustration. Our team had spent years working on email infrastructure - at ESPs, at agencies, inside growth teams - and we kept running into the same wall: deliverability was a black box. You'd send a campaign, watch open rates crater, and get a vague "check your sender reputation" non-answer from your tool. There was no transparency, no real-time data, no clear path to fix anything.
So in 2024 we built MailPilot. A platform that treats inbox placement as an engineering problem, not a dark art - with real seed data, automated warm-up logic, pre-flight spam checks, and reputation repair workflows that actually explain what's happening and why.
Mission
Make email deliverability a solved problem for every team.
Values
How we think about the work
Transparency
We show you the raw data - seed inbox results, ISP-level breakdown, reputation signals. Not a mysterious score with no explanation.
Speed
Deliverability intel in real time. Not a batch report emailed to you on Tuesday. You see results as mailboxes vote.
Simplicity
One platform instead of five duct-taped tools. Warm-up, pre-flight, monitoring, and repair all live in the same place.
Integrity
No inflated placement scores, no cherry-picked seed panels. If your email is landing in spam, we tell you - clearly.
The team
Small team, deep expertise
Alex M.
Co-founder & CEO
Former email infrastructure lead at a Fortune-500 logistics company. Spent five years watching marketing teams lose revenue to spam folders.
Priya K.
Co-founder & CTO
Built distributed mail-routing systems at scale. Obsessed with protocol correctness, SPF/DKIM/DMARC, and making complexity disappear for end users.
Jordan T.
Head of Deliverability
Previously a postmaster consultant for major ESPs. Knows more about Outlook filtering heuristics than most people alive.
By the numbers
8,400+
Seed mailboxes
99.2%
Avg. inbox placement
340+
Customers
2024
Year founded
Join us
We're hiring
Small team, big problems to solve. If you want to work on email infrastructure that matters, we'd love to hear from you.
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