Saastr · 5 November 2026 · Operating Insight

We Ran an Email Deliverability Bake-Off Across 3 Vendors and 500,000+ Emails This Week. Our AI Agent Ran All of It.

Jason Lemkin, GP @ SaaStr

SaaStr used an AI agent to run a rigorous 500K+ email deliverability test across three vendors, uncovering that their incumbent provider was failing silently on 80K+ sends while a challenger achieved 2.4x better opens—a process that would have taken months with consultants but took days with AI.

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Topics: Enterprise Software · Marketing & Sales Tech · AI (Horizontal)

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