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Cold email deliverability auditor for B2B founders

Founders blast cold email straight to spam without knowing why. A one-scan auditor that grades domain setup and rewrites the worst spam triggers.

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The problem

Early B2B founders run outbound without configuring SPF, DKIM, DMARC or warming domains, so campaigns land in spam. They discover it weeks later after burning a domain reputation and a lead list.

Who has this pain

Pre-seed and seed B2B founders doing their own outbound

Why now

Gmail and Yahoo tightened bulk-sender rules, every founder is told to do outbound, and reputation damage is now faster and harder to reverse.

Source evidence

3 pieces of attributed evidence from public sources.

  • Hacker News1 month ago
    Source

    All my cold emails go to spam and I don't know why

    Set up a new domain, sent 50 emails, all spam. No idea if it's DNS, content, or warmup. Want one tool that just tells me.
  • Reddit1 month ago
    Source

    Burned my main domain doing cold outreach

    Reputation tanked, now even my normal email lands in spam. Wish something had warned me before I started.

Similar businesses making money

Real companies in adjacent spaces, what they charge, and where this idea wedges in differently. Each links out so you can see them for yourself.

Sending suites are at seven figures monthly; warmup tools confirm willingness to pay for deliverability. The wedge is the free diagnostic that converts to monitoring.

Instantly / Smartlead

Cold email + deliverability

Publicly reported
$1,500,000 MRR$30 to $97/mo

Founder revenue posts put these tools in seven figures monthly, proving deliverability is monetizable.

Wedge: Lead with a free diagnostic wedge rather than a full sending suite.
Find Instantly / Smartlead
Adjacent signal
$25 to $99/mo

Adjacent paid tools confirm demand for fixing deliverability specifically.

Wedge: Own the 'why am I in spam' diagnosis moment that warmup tools assume you already understand.
Find MailReach / Warmup tools

Where this could wedge in

Ship the free graded audit as a viral wedge; gate ongoing monitoring behind $39/mo.

Revenue risks

Low standalone WTP for a one-time audit. Convert to recurring monitoring and inbox-placement tests.

Suggested MVP and monetization

Suggested MVP

Enter a sending domain and a sample email; return a graded report on DNS auth, blacklist status, and the top spam-trigger phrases with rewrites.

Monetization model

$0 audit, $39/mo monitoring + inbox-placement tests

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