Email Deliverability Consulting

Deliverability Consulting That Finds the Cause.

Our engineers run a six-layer deliverability audit, trace your inbox placement failure to its source, and stay until your numbers recover.

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30 minutes, free, no pitch. You leave the call knowing whether you need us at all.

Trusted by 500,000+ leading GTM teams

Three steps

A call, a written report, and an engineer who stays

We do not hand over a PDF and disappear. The audit finds the cause, then we stay through implementation until your post-fix campaigns measure clean.

001INPUT

Book the discovery call

Thirty minutes on your volume, infrastructure, and pain points, no sales pitch. Then read-only access to your ESP dashboard, Postmaster Tools, and DNS records. Nothing changes on your side yet.

002ENGINE

We audit all six layers

Authentication, IP and domain reputation, list hygiene, content patterns, infrastructure, and compliance, each reviewed and tied to a concrete fix ranked by impact in the written report.

003VERDICT

We stay through the fix

A live walkthrough of the report, hands-on support while you make the changes, and 30 days of monitoring on your first post-fix campaigns. The engagement ends when the numbers recover.

The honest answer

What deliverability consulting is

The whole page in one paragraph: what gets audited, what comes back, and where the limits honestly sit.

Email deliverability consulting is diagnostic work. A consultant pulls signals from your DNS records, your ESP, Google Postmaster Tools, Microsoft SNDS, and the major blocklists, then works out why your mail lands in spam while a competitor's lands in the inbox. The discipline spans six layers: authentication, reputation, list quality, content patterns, infrastructure, and compliance. Most problems live in the gaps between those layers, which is why a tool watching one layer rarely explains the whole picture. What comes back is a written report ranked by impact, a live walkthrough, an engineer on the calls while you make the changes, and 30 days of monitoring after the last fix.

The full diagnostic

What does a deliverability audit take apart?

DNS is where most audits stop. It is where ours starts. Every layer gets reviewed, scored, and tied to a concrete fix in the written report.

Authentication

Whether you are who you say

SPF, DKIM, and DMARC checked for existence, alignment, and actual enforcement. Most senders have SPF, skip DKIM key rotation, and leave DMARC parked at p=none — which reads to a receiving server as a domain nobody is defending.

Verifox clay fox holding up a green clay seal of approval beside three stamped clay authentication tags.
Reputation

What the providers think of you

Google Postmaster Tools, Microsoft SNDS, SenderScore, and every major blocklist pulled into one reputation profile, then each negative signal traced back to the sending behaviour that caused it rather than left as a number on a dial.

Verifox clay fox pointing at a clay reputation dial whose needle climbs from a red band into the green.
List and content

What you send, and who to

Bounce patterns, likely spam-trap hits, and acquisition sources on the list side; subject triggers, HTML weight, link domains, and cadence on the content side. Both judged against what providers filter on now, not what worked in 2020.

Verifox clay fox sorting clay envelopes into a clean green pile and a flagged grey pile beside a clay magnifier.
Infrastructure

How the plumbing is wired

Dedicated versus shared IPs, warmup status, suppression handling, feedback-loop enrolment, bounce processing, and the Google and Yahoo bulk-sender rules. The layer that quietly decides whether every fix above actually holds.

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One engagement, every lever

Everything the audit moves

Deliverability is not one setting. An engagement works every lever that decides placement, then proves the move with numbers you can check.

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Every number here is measured on the account before and after, never estimated.

The whole stack, reviewed

Records, lists, sending patterns and content, in one pass.

0.5 % bounce rate

The target we work your list down to before scaling volume.

72 h to delisting

Typical resolution once we file, not an open-ended wait.

100% compliance

Google and Yahoo bulk-sender rules, met and evidenced.

Credits never expire

1,000 free on signup. 2,500 with a work email. Pay as you go after.

Start free

Your data stays yours

Reviewed under NDA, nothing retained. SOC 2 · GDPR · CCPA.

Pricing

Pay once, or not at all

Most tools reset your balance every month. Verifox sells credits that sit in your account until you spend them.

FreeProve it on your own list before you spend anything.$0

forever

1,000credits on signup

No card required

2,500 with a work email

Free includes

  • All 9 checks included
  • Full API and bulk CSV
  • Catch-all confidence scoring
  • No card required
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Credit packsBuy once, spend whenever. Slide to price your list.$59

one time

10,000credits

$0.0059 eachSAVE 34%

Everything in Free, plus

  • Credits never expire
  • Verify or find from one pool
  • Up to 79% off at volume
  • No contract, no minimum
Verifox ONECredits land monthly and stack on your balance.$79

per month

15,000credits a month

$0.0053 each

Unused credits roll over

Everything in packs, plus

  • Unused credits roll over
  • Our lowest per-email rate
  • 50 requests per second API
  • Cancel anytime

One credit verifies one address; a find costs 10. All prices in USD, checkout via Stripe.

What teams are saying

Built for the teams that ship outbound

Growth leads, marketers, and engineers running real campaigns on real lists, with a verified email on every byline.

Thomas George, GTM Lead at Stripe

90% lower bill, 0.4% bounces

We were paying ZeroBounce a four-figure monthly bill and still landing 3% bounces on cold campaigns. Switched the pipeline to Verifox, dropped to 0.4% bounces, and cut the bill by more than 90%.
Thomas G.GTM Lead, Stripe
Brittany King, GTM Lead at HubSpot

Catch-all finally has a verdict

Other tools flag 30% of our B2B list as 'risky catch-all' and leave the call to us. Verifox returns a real verdict on those addresses, with a confidence score. We send more, we send safer.
Brittany K.GTM Lead, HubSpot
Dale Micallef, GTM Lead at Slack

Reputation rebuilt in 6 weeks

We had a Gmail spam-folder problem after a bad list import. Verifox cleaned the list and the warmup ran on the same engine. Back in primary inbox in six weeks. One vendor, half the cost.
Dale M.GTM Lead, Slack
Erica Kovalkoski, GTM Lead at Discord

0.7% bounce on 50k

Ran a 50,000-address outbound list through Verifox before our quarterly campaign. Bounces landed at 0.7%, sender reputation didn't move, replies were up 22% over last quarter.
Erica K.GTM Lead, Discord
Greg Lindsay, GTM Lead at OpenAI

MCP in 10 minutes

Their MCP server let me wire email verification directly into our internal Claude agent in about ten minutes. Zero glue code. No other vendor in this space has thought about that workflow.
Greg L.GTM Lead, OpenAI
Rini Vasana, Product Manager at Vercel

10k/min held under 400ms

Tested Verifox at 10,000 verifications per minute on a Tuesday morning. Latency held under 400ms median, no soft failures, no rate-limit walls. The vendor we benched throttled at 2,000/min.
Rini V.Product Manager, Vercel
Jonathan Aharon, GTM Lead at MongoDB

Hygiene that doesn't break pipeline

Our SDRs were enriching from three tools and 14% of the emails were invalid before they hit the sequencer. Verifox sits in the pipeline now and the team stopped seeing 'undeliverable' replies the next week.
Jonathan A.GTM Lead, MongoDB
Emma Fox, GTM Lead at Linear

Bulk that actually ships

Bulk upload, sorted CSV back in twenty minutes, plug into our growth stack. The half-day list-hygiene project per cohort turned into something the marketing intern runs on autopilot.
Emma F.GTM Lead, Linear
David Hare, GTM Lead at Snowflake

Scores you can act on

Verifox returns a 0-100 confidence score per address, not just a label. We thresholded at 75 for the cold sequencer, 60 for nurture, and our deliverability team finally has a knob they can tune.
David H.GTM Lead, Snowflake
Trust & compliance

Enterprise-grade security and scale

Every layer of the stack carries a third-party attestation, so you can ship into regulated industries without rebuilding your compliance posture.

  • Claymation Japanese hanko seal in jade-green clay with a twisted shimenawa rope rim, the words SOC 2 TYPE II embossed in cream clay on its face.

    SOC 2 Type II

    Independently audited to the SOC 2 Type II standard.

  • Claymation Japanese hanko seal in cobalt-blue clay with a twisted shimenawa rope rim, the word GDPR embossed in cream clay on its face.

    GDPR

    Built for the EU with full GDPR data-subject rights.

  • Claymation Japanese hanko seal in rose-pink clay with a twisted shimenawa rope rim, the word CCPA embossed in cream clay on its face.

    CCPA

    California opt-out, do-not-sell, plus DSAR handling.

  • Claymation Japanese hanko seal in terracotta clay with a twisted shimenawa rope rim, the text ISO 27001 embossed in cream clay on its face.

    ISO 27001

    Information security held to the ISO 27001 standard.

  • Claymation Japanese hanko seal in lilac-purple clay with a twisted shimenawa rope rim, the text ISO 42001 embossed in cream clay on its face.

    ISO 42001

    AI governance aligned to the new ISO 42001 standard.

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An investigation into the money leaking out of your list - and the nine checks that decide whether your email is read, or never arrives at all.

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Before you book

Consulting, answered straight

The questions we hear on every first call: cost, guarantees, blacklists, access, and when a consultant is overkill. Real numbers, no hedging.

What does an email deliverability audit include?

Six layers: email authentication (SPF, DKIM, DMARC), IP and domain reputation, list hygiene and spam-trap exposure, content and sending patterns, ESP and infrastructure configuration, and compliance. You get a written report with every finding ranked by impact, a live walkthrough, implementation support, and 30 days of post-fix monitoring. Continuous coverage afterwards can run on the DMARC monitor and our other automated tools.

How much does email deliverability consulting cost?

Engagements are scoped on the free 30-minute discovery call and priced by sending volume and complexity, quoted in your local currency. No long-term contract. If your problem turns out to be list quality, we will say so on the call: pay-as-you-go verification credits never expire and cost far less than a consulting engagement.

How long does blacklist removal take?

72 hours is the typical resolution once the root cause is fixed, though every blocklist runs its own delisting process and some major filters update on their own schedule. Delisting without fixing the cause just gets you relisted, so we fix first and file second. Afterwards, automated blacklist monitoring watches the major lists and alerts you on the first hit.

How is consulting different from Verifox self-serve tools?

Tools handle the automatable layers: email verification cleans your list, email warmup builds sender reputation, monitoring catches drift. Consulting is for problems that survive all of that: persistent spam placement with clean metrics, reputation damage with no obvious trigger, or a migration where one mistake costs weeks. The discovery call exists to tell you honestly which one you need.

Can you help with Google and Yahoo bulk-sender requirements?

Yes. The rules for senders above 5,000 messages a day are concrete: aligned SPF and DKIM, a published DMARC policy, one-click unsubscribe honored within two days, and spam complaints kept under Google's 0.3% threshold. Every audit includes a compliance pass against the current requirements, and 100% of our engagements over the last 12 months reached full compliance.

Should I send from a dedicated or shared IP?

It depends on volume and consistency. At lower volumes, a well-managed shared pool usually outperforms a dedicated IP you cannot keep warm; at sustained high volume, dedicated gives you a reputation you fully control. The audit answers this with your own data, and an email server test shows how your current setup presents to receiving servers before you commit either way.

Can you guarantee inbox placement?

No, and you should walk away from anyone who does. Mailbox providers do not sell guarantees, and filtering changes weekly. What we commit to is measurement: a baseline inbox placement test before any changes, the same test after every fix, and a written record of what moved. Across recent engagements, the average inbox rate improvement is 42%.

Do you work with cold outreach senders?

Yes, with conditions. Lists must be verified before sending, since cold lists carry the highest catch-all and spam-trap risk. We will also insist on separate sending domains and a proper warmup ramp before volume. What we will not do is help anyone send to people who never asked to hear from them at scale.

What access do you need, and is my data safe?

Read-only access to your ESP dashboard, DNS records, Google Postmaster Tools, and recent campaign reports. Nothing changes on your side until you make the changes yourself, with us on the call. Verifox is SOC 2 Type II audited, and any addresses we verify during an engagement are processed in memory, never stored, logged, or sold.

Do I need to be a Verifox customer first?

No. Consulting is standalone, and we work alongside whatever stack you run: SendGrid, Mailgun, Amazon SES, Postmark, Klaviyo, HubSpot, ActiveCampaign, and most enterprise platforms. Many clients later wire our verification engine into signup and import flows because it removes the list-quality class of problems permanently; the API reference shows the full integration surface.