Who actually does the reviews.
Scott is a product engineer and co-founder who has been building web software and SaaS products since 2002. Not the Junk Folder came out of doing this work repeatedly for other people's businesses: every migration, every new tool bolted on, the same four DNS records quietly wrong.
His career runs from Java engineering at the Bureau of Meteorology through CTO leadership and delivery for the Australian Government Fair Work Commission and UNSW, to founding multiple technology companies — currently Floats.ai, which builds AI tooling for recruiters, and Sirius.dev.
He is also the author of Future Proof: The White-Collar Worker's Guide to the AI Era, and The Naked Truth About Working From Home.
Why this is a business
Because the same thing kept happening. A business would mention, almost in passing, that a client hadn't received something — and forty minutes later there it was in the DNS: one SPF record too many, DKIM never switched on after a migration, DMARC sitting at p=none since someone read an article about it in 2024.
It is not difficult work. It is specific work, and it sits in the gap between the person who chose the software and the person who controls the domain — which in a small business is usually nobody.
How the reviews are run
Entirely from outside your systems, using public DNS — the same view Gmail and Microsoft have of you. No mailbox access, no agent on your server, nothing to install. If you want the changes made rather than handed over, that happens on a call with you driving your own DNS, or with access you grant and revoke afterwards.
Findings about your domain are never published or used as examples without your written say-so.