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Stayingahead

stayingahead.ai
🏆Rank N/A 🏷 SaaS

Stayingahead uses SparkPost as their primary email service provider. Their email authentication setup is good (score 73/100). Missing: DMARC enforcement.

Transactional ESPSparkPost
Total observations9
Active days8
Avg per active day1.1
Last activity📬 Active · yesterday
Cadence~every 4 days

Other technologies

Non-ESP tools detected in this brand's emails. Independent of who sends — a brand can use any combination.

AMP for Email Yes
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Email setup 73/100

Authentication signals observed in this brand's emails. SPF, DKIM and DMARC are the standard sender-authentication stack — see the DMARC policy below for whether spoofing is actually blocked or just monitored. One-click unsubscribe meets Google & Yahoo's bulk-sender requirements.

Solid setup, room to improve
Most authentication signals are present. A couple of pieces would tighten things up.
73/100
SPF
pass
DKIM
pass
DMARC
pass (none)
BIMI
none
Unsubscribe
one-click
SPF lookups 2/10

SPF / DKIM / DMARC above reflect the last 4 emails we've observed. DMARC policy is read live from DNS.

Authentication

DMARC reports sent to stayingahead.ai. Policy p=none is monitor-only — receivers won't act on spoofing yet.

SPF alignment: all 9 observed emails use a return-path aligned with stayingahead.ai (mm-bounce.news.stayingahead.ai). SPF authenticates the visible From — supports DMARC directly.

DKIM alignment: all 9 observed emails sign with a domain aligned with stayingahead.ai (news.stayingahead.ai). DKIM authenticates the visible From — supports DMARC directly.

Transport & deliverability

TLS: 0% TLS 1.3, 100% TLS 1.2 (across 7 sends).

Delivery: fast — 100% of emails in the last 7 days arrive in under 10 seconds (across 3 sends).

Other ESPs detected

Brands often use multiple ESPs (e.g. one for marketing, another for transactional/notifications).

None — only the primary ESP(s) shown above

Confirmed senders

ESPs we've seen sending email for this brand. Green = confirmed by SPF, sender IP rDNS, or known infra pairing (label shows the source). Grey = observed but not yet confirmed by SPF or PTR.

SparkPost ✓ confirmed

Other SPF authorizations

No additional ESPs authorized in the brand's SPF beyond the confirmed senders above.

Probed: stayingahead.ai, mm-bounce.news.stayingahead.ai, news.stayingahead.ai

Where emails landed (Gmail)

Folder distribution across all emails from this brand observed in Gmail inboxes. High inbox % = good deliverability; spam appearances are the headline signal.

FolderCountShare
inbox 7 77.8%
promotions 2 22.2%

Placement by ESP

Which ESP's emails are landing where. Sorted by spam % so problem senders surface first. Brands using one ESP for marketing and another for transactional often see very different placement profiles per ESP. Per-ESP folder data only started being captured recently — counts here may be smaller than the total above until backfill catches up.

ESP Emails Placement Inbox % Tabs % Spam %
SparkPost 9
77.8% 22.2% 0.0%

ESP activity over time

Jun 1 – Jun 29, 2026 · 8 days with sends

Daily observations per ESP. Brands often run multiple ESPs concurrently — marketing on one, transactional on another — so this chart shows usage rather than switches.

2 0 SparkPost: 1 (2026-06-01)1SparkPost: 1 (2026-06-03)1SparkPost: 1 (2026-06-12)1SparkPost: 1 (2026-06-15)1SparkPost: 2 (2026-06-19)2SparkPost: 1 (2026-06-23)1SparkPost: 1 (2026-06-26)1SparkPost: 1 (2026-06-29)106/0106/0406/0706/1006/1306/1606/1906/2206/2506/28
SparkPost

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Sending IPs

IP addresses stayingahead.ai has been observed sending from, and where their mail landed in Gmail.

IPHostnameObsPlacementReputation
156.70.53.230 mta-70-53-230.sparkpostmail.com 5 4 Check →
156.70.12.228 mta-70-12-228.sparkpostmail.com 1 Check →
156.70.23.92 mta-70-23-92.sparkpostmail.com 1 Check →
156.70.24.47 mta-70-24-47.sparkpostmail.com 1 Check →
168.203.49.157 mta-203-49-157.sparkpostmail.com 1 1 Check →

Sending domains

DomainESPs detectedDelivery (7d)
news.stayingahead.aiSparkPost 9