Security teams protect the perimeter. IT teams manage the infrastructure. Marketing teams run the campaigns. Nobody owns the outcome.
That gap — between the three disciplines that email depends on — is exactly where inbox placement fails. We built GetToInbox to close it.
The answer required two disciplines

Thirty years in infrastructure, networking, and security. Samuel is the strategist — the person who maps the full picture of why email fails and what it takes to fix it across all three disciplines at once. He is the Chief Inbox Officer and vCISO for clients who need someone accountable for the outcome, not just the audit.

Twenty-five years building systems that had to work in production — at Levi Strauss, Sephora, Gap Inc., nCircle Network Security. Tomasz is the operator — the person who takes the strategy and makes it hold under load, at scale, when something breaks at 2am. He is the reason GetToInbox clients do not just get a score — they get a deployment that runs.
Together: the full stack, one accountable team
Seven years ago, Samuel Harrison started noticing something that did not make sense. Legitimate organizations — nonprofits running food drives, political campaigns trying to reach voters, healthcare providers sending appointment reminders — were watching their emails disappear. Not bouncing. Not getting error replies. Just gone. Landing in spam folders nobody checked, or never arriving at all.
He had spent over thirty years in infrastructure, networking, and security — starting at Pacific Bell Mobile Services, one of the first next-generation digital wireless carriers in the United States, which evolved into Cingular and ultimately AT&T Mobility, then through Chevron and Centex Homes, and a decade of security and deliverability work at CircleVenue. That career taught him one thing above all else: the systems that fail silently are always the ones nobody thought to make anyone accountable for. So he started volunteering — helping these organizations trace the problem back to its root. What he found was the same thing, over and over: email security, DNS authentication, and sending practices were three separate problems owned by three separate teams — and the gap between them was exactly where inbox placement failed.
Fixing it required someone who could operate across all three disciplines at once. That meant Tomasz Pado — the person Samuel had met at The Gap, where they worked closely together on store infrastructure and sales technology. Twenty-five years of enterprise infrastructure behind him, systems that ran under load at Levi Strauss, Sephora, and Gap Inc., and the understanding that the difference between a configuration that passes a check and one that holds in production is not a small difference.
GetToInbox.com is the result of that combination: the strategist who maps the full picture, and the operator who makes it hold. One accountable team across the entire stack.
Anti-phishing, ICES, DLP, encryption, security awareness training — the inbound protection layer.
SPF, DKIM, DMARC, MTA-STS, DNSSEC, PTR — the bridge between security and deliverability that nobody fully owns.
List hygiene, engagement signals, bounce handling, ESP configuration, warmup — the invisible half of inbox placement.
What DNS scanners and authentication validators can measure:
The free scanner at GetToInbox.com measures 48 checks across these signals.
What inbox providers measure that no scanner can see:
A domain with a perfect external score can still have terrible inbox placement because of what is happening inside the ESP and CRM.
This is the invisible half of deliverability. And it is the half that most organizations never address, because they do not know it exists.
The tools exist. The standards exist. What has been missing is a single team that owns the full stack — security, deliverability, and sending practice — and is accountable for the outcome.
A free 48-check domain scanner that gives any organization an immediate, accurate picture of their external infrastructure — detailed enough for a CISO, clear enough for a marketing director.
A managed service that covers what the scanner cannot measure: authentication hardening, DMARC enforcement, DNS infrastructure, sending practice audits, list hygiene, ESP configuration, and ongoing monitoring. Not three separate engagements. One accountable team.
Security and compliance overlay — SOC 2, HIPAA, FINRA, SEC — for organizations that need email infrastructure that holds up under audit, not just under normal conditions.
Right now, the gap between organizations that have a dedicated security team and those that do not is enormous — and email is where that gap is most visible. Legitimate email disappears. Spoofed email gets through. The infrastructure that should prevent both is either missing or broken.
The long-term goal is to close that gap. Every organization that depends on email — a nonprofit, a healthcare provider, a small business, a political campaign — should have access to the same authentication quality, the same monitoring, the same enforcement path that enterprise security teams take for granted.
Not as a premium service. As the baseline.
The organizations that cannot afford to have email fail are exactly the ones that currently have no one accountable for making sure it does not.
That is the problem GetToInbox exists to solve.
GetToInbox.com is an email infrastructure and deliverability firm based in San Francisco. The company was built on a simple observation: most organizations treat email security, DNS authentication, and sending practices as three separate problems owned by three separate teams — and the gap between them is exactly where inbox placement fails.
The free domain score tool is the entry point. It runs 48 checks across authentication, DNS configuration, transport security, web compliance, and domain reputation — producing a 100-point score with actionable fix guidance. It is designed to be comprehensive enough for a CISO and clear enough for a marketing director.
The managed service goes further. It covers the full stack — from authentication hardening and DMARC enforcement to ESP configuration, list hygiene, and ongoing monitoring — as a single coherent program with one accountable team.
The goal is consistent, verifiable inbox placement for every organization that depends on email — regardless of size, technical depth, or whether they have a dedicated security team.
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Checks per scan
100
Point scoring scale
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Years combined experience
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Disciplines. One team.
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