Email Deliverability in the Age of AI with Mustafa Saeed

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The rise of AI tools has dramatically changed the landscape of email marketing and sales outreach, creating both exciting opportunities and significant risks. As Mustafa Saeed, co-founder and CEO of Luella, explains in this eye-opening conversation, many revenue teams are now "scared shitless" about how their reps might abuse these powerful new technologies.
When AI-powered automation tools are implemented without proper guardrails, organizations face serious threats to their brand reputation, domain health, and even compliance standing. The problem isn't AI itself, but rather "AI coupled with reckless automation" that floods inboxes with content that lacks genuine value. As email service providers like Google and Microsoft respond with increasingly aggressive spam filters, even legitimate messages from trusted senders are getting caught in the crossfire.
The solution isn't abandoning AI but reimagining how we use it. While many AI tools promise to remove humans from the loop, Saeed argues for bringing them back in through thoughtful collaboration between humans and AI agents. This approach combines the best of both worlds—AI's ability to analyze vast datasets and humans' talent for building authentic relationships.

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Chapters

1. Email Deliverability in the Age of AI with Mustafa Saeed (00:00:00)

2. Introduction to Email Deliverability and AI (00:00:48)

3. RevOps Leaders' Role in AI Guardrails (00:05:33)

4. AI Risks: Reputation, Compliance, and Blacklisting (00:10:33)

5. AI as Augmentation, Not Replacement (00:15:58)

6. Building Guardrails for AI Systems (00:21:38)

7. How Deliverability Agents Protect Sender Reputation (00:29:58)

8. Using Reinforcement Learning for Better Results (00:37:14)

9. Future AI Agents and Final Thoughts (00:43:21)