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Daily Morning Briefing Marketo's Cofounder Comes Back for It as AI-Native Automation Targets $50K Contracts Masthead deck. Two trade outlets published on the same Monday about the same insurgency: AI-native marketing automation built to replace Marketo, with Marketo's own cofounder Jon Miller now selling Phave as the replacement Diginomica, 26 Oct 2026 MarTech, 26 Oct 2026 12:57 UTC. Underneath the platform war, the Q4 inbox is behaving badly for ordinary senders: Outlook junk placement is the loudest complaint on r/email, and the most-quoted number of the day is still Gmail's 0.3% spam ceiling. Edition window: 2026-10-26 06:21 UTC to 2026-10-27 06:21 UTC. Every item below carries a timestamp inside that window; two items are older background explicitly attached to an in-window post. At a glance Marketo's cofounder is now competing with Marketo. Jon Miller, who co-founded and was CMO of Marketo, has launched Phave, an AI-native platform that replaces rule-based journeys with per-contact "playlists" the model reasons over Diginomica, 26 Oct 2026. Four challengers, one target, and a pricing anchor. Paminga, Inflection.io, Conversion.ai and Phave are all positioning against Marketo, which one long-time practitioner says can run $50,000 to $70,000 a year for teams mainly using email, lead scoring and Salesforce sync MarTech, 26 Oct 2026 12:57 UTC. Outlook is the Q4 deliverability fault line. A sender reporting falling Outlook/Hotmail inbox placement and listed sending IPs drew 16 replies whose consistent answer was Microsoft SNDS and IP reputation, not authentication Reddit r/email, 26 Oct 2026 12:43 UTC. Klaviyo put product recommendations inside chat. Its official account said Customer Agent now recommends real, in-stock catalog products with prices, images and links for WooCommerce and Magento 2 shoppers X, 26 Oct 2026 22:26 UTC. Read full report → This is an automated email from your scheduled research "Daily Morning Briefing". Need help? support.grep.ai · support@grep.ai Unsubscribe