About us

Deliverability engineers and writers, on the same team.

RankBoostLab was founded in 2019 on a simple observation: companies were paying for email reports instead of email results. We built the agency we would have wanted to hire.

Our story

Started with one spam folder, one promise

Our founders met un-blacklisting an e-commerce sender at two in the morning. What began as a freelance rescue project grew into a team of deliverability engineers, strategists, writers and analysts serving clients across SaaS, e-commerce and local services.

The promise never changed: every recommendation ships with a reason, a projection and a way to measure whether it worked. If we cannot connect work to opened mail and revenue, we say so before you spend a dollar.

  • Independent and bootstrapped since day one
  • Senior-only delivery team, no pyramid staffing
  • Every audit, record and asset belongs to you
The RankBoostLab team working together in the office

Operating principles

How we work when nobody is watching

Radical transparency

You see the raw seed-test results, the failed sends and the honest projections. No dashboards dressed up to hide flat months.

Evidence over opinion

Every strategy call starts with data: placement tests, bounce logs, postmaster reports. Opinions are welcome once the evidence is on the table.

Your team gets smarter

We document everything so your in-house marketers learn the why behind each play, not just the what.

Leadership

The people you will actually work with

Portrait of Adrian Wells, co-founder and head of deliverability engineering Adrian Wells co-founder · head of deliverability

Fourteen years in email infrastructure, ex-in-house at two unicorn startups. Runs the deliverability audit practice.

Portrait of Maya Chen, co-founder and head of email strategy Maya Chen co-founder · head of email strategy

Former tech journalist turned strategist. Built lifecycle programs for three B2B category leaders.

Portrait of Tom Rivera, CRM and automation director Tom Rivera crm & automation director

Rebuilt ESP setups managing north of 40 million sends a year. Believes every email account can be simplified.

Portrait of Sofia Marin, analytics and deliverability lead Sofia Marin analytics & deliverability lead

Turns messy sending data into numbers executives trust. Seed testing, postmaster tools and experimentation.

Work with us

Bring us your hardest deliverability problem

Tell us where your sends are stuck. We will send back an honest assessment, even if the answer is that you do not need us yet.