We love data, people, email - and connecting them all together.
Seventh Sense was founded in 2014 to fix a problem that everyone in marketing has - and nobody had a real answer for. Twelve years later, we still wake up obsessed with the same question: how do we get the right email to the right person at the right moment?
Why we built Seventh Sense.
Email is the highest-ROI channel in marketing. It's also the most abused. Marketing teams send too much, to too many, at the wrong times, and watch their open rates, deliverability, and customer relationships erode together.
The standard answer was "send more, A/B test more, hope for the best." We thought there was a better one: let AI watch what's actually happening per person, per inbox provider, per send - and quietly fix it.
That's the bet we made in 2014. Twelve years and hundreds of billions of engagement signals later, the AI is mature, the integrations are deep, and the results are durable: customers grow engaged audiences 44% in year one while sending 61% less email. We're proud of that math.
We're a small, independent team based in the US, working closely with marketing operators at every size from scrappy 5-person teams to Fortune 500 marketing organizations. We're not chasing acquisition exits or expanding into ten platforms. We're going deep on the two that matter to our customers - HubSpot and Marketo - and we plan to keep doing that for a long time.
Built by people who've lived this problem.
The two people who started Seventh Sense - and still run it.
Mike is the CEO and Co-Founder of Seventh Sense, where he leads the product vision and runs the business.
As a recognized sales leader in the technology industry, Mike spent more than 13 years building and managing territories before founding Seventh Sense - and bringing a fundamentally new way to analyze, visualize, and act on engagement data to sales and marketing teams.
Prior to founding Seventh Sense, Mike was an individual contributor at Nimble Storage (NMBL). From 2006 to 2012 he held leadership and individual contributor positions at Isilon Systems, which was acquired by EMC for $2.5 billion in 2010. He earned multiple over-achievement awards at Isilon and later at ExtraHop Networks, Dataline, and DLT Solutions.
Earlier in his career, Mike worked as a software engineer at Celera Genomics - the private company that mapped the human genome - and was a co-author in Science Magazine on the published human and mouse genomes for his contributions there.
Mike holds a B.S. in Geology, with a specialty in Environmental and Engineering Geosciences, from Radford University.
Erik is the CTO and Co-Founder of Seventh Sense, where he leads product management, engineering, and the core AI that powers the platform.
Prior to Seventh Sense, Erik was the Chief Technology Officer of WiserTogether, an emerging healthcare analytics company. As a recognized technology leader, Erik also served as VP of Engineering for XIF, Inc., a media and technology services provider to national media organizations, where he led application development for web properties including National Geographic, Time, Disney, and Thompson Reuters.
Across his career, Erik has built and run enterprise-scale software development, deployment, and operations at organizations of every size - from startups to global brands.
Erik holds a B.S. in Physics and Anthropology from Andrews University.
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