Cody Smith

Cody Smith is the founder of EmailGuard and EmailBison, two products for agencies and go-to-market teams that rely on cold email. EmailGuard came first: a deliverability toolkit that runs inbox placement tests across the major mailbox providers, monitors SPF, DKIM and DMARC records and blacklists, scores emails for spam triggers, verifies contacts and offers domain masking and hosted redirects.

Lessons from EmailGuard's deliverability monitoring, particularly that shared sending infrastructure drags down inbox placement, led to EmailBison, a private email sequencer built on dedicated IPs and single-tenant clusters. It targets high-volume agencies rather than small senders, with an API, webhooks, private warmup, unlimited lead storage and no per-seat fees. The company is kept deliberately small, with Cody and core engineers supporting customers directly in dedicated Slack channels, and Felipe Aranguiz on the team as chief revenue officer.