An SEO agency's outreach to local businesses: 989 emails, a 1.4% bounce rate and 15 human replies. Four of them asked for a price, a proposal or an analysis, and the agency answered from its dashboard.
Email deliverability consultant for cold email
Stop rewriting the email. Check the envelope.
When cold email lands in spam, the copy is rarely the problem. It's the domains, the inboxes and the list. I find which one, in writing.
Rather have it all done for you? See how ›Or skip all of it. I'll run your cold email.
Your domains, my platform and my hours. You approve the message, I do the rest, and you watch it happen in your own dashboard. How the done-for-you service works ›
Approve and answer.
- Approve the offer and every email before it goes out
- Answer the replies that matter, from your dashboard
- Own every domain and inbox, in your name
Everything else.
- Set up and warm the domains and inboxes
- Research and verify every contact
- Write one checked line for each prospect
- Send, monitor, and stop the day the numbers say so
- Separate human replies from auto-replies, and report every week
Your client dashboard: every reply in one place, answered from there. Sample data.
- Your domains, never mineIf we part ways, everything stays with you.
- One checked line per contactEvery detail is verified on the prospect's own site before it's sent.
- Human replies onlyAuto-replies never count in your numbers.
- A stop rule before the first emailWritten down: what would make us pause or end a campaign.
- Replies in your dashboardRead and answer them there, attachments included.
Cold email deliverability, measured on real sends.
The sample size sits under each one. Some are small. All of them are real.
Inbox placement with a team's own copy against a neutral version, from the same domains on the same day. Rewriting the email changed nothing.
Microsoft 365 and Proofpoint flagged the email only with the open-tracking pixel on. Off, both let it through.
Catch-all addresses bounced at 4.19%, verified ones at 1.09%. Catch-alls stay out of my lists.
Reply rate of 100 hand-researched contacts against a bulk list of 2,071. Four times the rate with a twentieth of the volume.
And one I got wrong. My tool once reported 101 replies on a campaign. Only 46 came from a person. My reports count human replies only now.
A deliverability audit: 67 domains that kept dying.
A B2B team kept replacing sending domains every few months and couldn't say why. Replies had fallen from 4–6% to under 2%.
- October 2025 to February 2026
Main campaigns reply at 4.1% to 5.7%.
- April 15 to 28
Bounces reach 4.23%, with two daily spikes. Replies still at 2.93%.
- May 1 to 14
Replies fall to 0.44%, two weeks after the bounce spike.
- May 22
Same copy, same leads, same day: new inboxes reply at 2.90%, old ones at 1.71%.
- October
103 domains deleted, 45 more scheduled. Gmail placement on the newest batch drops from 20/20 to 7/21.
- Domains wear out in about 2 to 3 monthsConfirmed
- Complaints and bounces are what wear them outStrong evidence
- Outlook, Yahoo and AOL filter it with any copyConfirmed
- The tracking pixel alone triggers Microsoft 365 and ProofpointConfirmed
Delivered as a six-page written report: every finding rated by how sure I am, seven fixes the team could make that week at no cost, and a measured plan for the rest.
Ask for the sample reportHow it starts. No discovery call.
Four steps, all of them in writing.
Send the domain
Run the check above, or send me the domain you use.
Get a written answer
The first thing I'd fix, within one business day. Free.
Approve a quote
Scope and price in writing. Nothing starts before you say yes.
Go live
The report and change log, or your first campaign, sent after you approve it.
In English or Spanish. And you keep a record of every decision.
Deliverability audit and cold email pricing.
Every engagement starts with a written quote. The price doesn't move unless you change the scope.
Deliverability audit
Your sending domains checked from the outside, tested in real inboxes, and the exact fixes in writing.
- SPF, DKIM, DMARC, MX and blocklists
- Placement test at Gmail, Outlook and Yahoo
- Up to 5 domains; larger setups quoted
Done for you
Your outbound, run end to end from domains in your name, with replies in your dashboard.
- Domains and inboxes set up and warmed
- Researched, verified lists with one checked line each
- Sending, monitoring and a written stop rule
- Your dashboard and a weekly written report
Setup for your team
Infrastructure that doesn't burn your domains, handed off so your team can run it.
- Domains, inboxes, DNS and warm-up
- Apollo, Instantly or Smartlead configured
- A verified first list and written SOPs
Domains, inboxes and data are billed at cost and stay in your name. For agencies: I also work behind the scenes, inside your clients' accounts and under your brand.
What I say no to.
So you know what you're getting before you write.
- Commission-only workI'm paid for the work, so my advice never depends on your close rate.
- "Just send me booked meetings"Meetings depend on the list, the offer and the timing. I fix what I can measure.
- Bought lists nobody verifiedNothing I've measured burns domains faster than bounces.
- Cold email from your main domainIf it gets flagged, your invoices and support mail go down with it.
- A promised reply rateI'll tell you what I'll measure instead, and when I'd stop sending.
- Volume for its own sakeResearched lists replied at four times the rate of bulk ones.
Email deliverability, answered plainly.
What does an email deliverability consultant do?
Finds out why your email lands in spam and fixes it. For cold email that means checking your sending domains, inboxes and lists from the outside, testing where your email lands at Gmail, Outlook and Yahoo, and telling you in writing what to change first.
What does a cold email deliverability audit include?
SPF, DKIM, DMARC and MX on every sending domain, blocklists, bounce and reply history by campaign, sending volume per inbox, tracking settings, and an inbox placement test. You get a written report with every finding rated by how sure I am and the fixes ranked by impact. See the audit.
How much does an email deliverability audit cost?
From $350 for up to 5 sending domains. Larger setups are quoted in writing before any work starts.
Why are my cold emails going to spam?
In the audits I've run, it was rarely the copy. The usual causes are worn-out sending domains, bounces from unverified lists, too much volume per inbox and the open-tracking pixel. Read the full guide, with the numbers.
Can you fix emails going to spam in Gmail or Outlook?
I can find the cause and fix what is under your control: authentication, domains, volume, list quality and tracking. Gmail and Microsoft make the final call, so I measure placement before and after instead of promising a number.
Do you need access to my accounts?
Not to start. The first check uses only your public DNS: try it free. For the full audit I ask for access to your sending tool, and nothing is changed without your written approval.
Do you also run cold email campaigns?
Yes. I set up domains and inboxes in your name, build and verify the lists, write one checked line per contact and run the sending, with replies in your own dashboard. How it works.
One person. In writing.
I'm Alexander Rosales. I run Automatia Agency on my own, from Plattsburgh, New York. I built my own multi-inbox sending platform and my own email verification server, so the tests on this page and your campaigns run on infrastructure I control. You deal with me directly, never an account manager.
Automatia Agency is the trading name of the sole proprietorship of Alexander Rosales, 32 Adirondack Lane, Plattsburgh, NY 12901, United States. Cold email infrastructure, deliverability and outbound campaigns for small businesses and agencies, remotely, worldwide. Projects are quoted in writing, typically USD 350 to USD 2,500, and done-for-you campaigns start at USD 1,200 per month. Full details on the contact page.