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Podcast Episode 91

The Deliverability Rescue: AI to Get Your Emails Into Inboxes, Not Spam Folders

April 6, 202611 min

Inbox placement quietly decides whether your best messaging earns customers or lands in oblivion. The Deliverability Rescue equips small teams with a compact, privacy-first routine to diagnose why emails fail to land, fix reputation and content leaks, and run a pragmatic 21-day pilot that recovers opens and conversions. Lyric opens with a founder vignette where a mis-sent campaign cut weekend revenue and the one human line that rebuilt trust. Nova defines the minimal telemetry to collect (bounce bands, complaint slope, engagement cohorts, sending domain signals) and strict rules about never exporting raw recipient lists. Stryker walks scrappy, safe engineering: sender-auth checks (SPF/DKIM/DMARC), warm-up recipes, hashed test cohorts, and suggest-only AI subject and header framing. Pulse prescribes an operational pilot—owner roles, acceptance tests, cadence, and rollback gates. Listeners leave with three copy-safe templates, a sender checklist, and a pilot pack at apexblue.com/deliverability-rescue. Stay smart, stay curious, and stay ahead.

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