According to Live Direct Marketing's daily Tranco top-1M scan (July 12, 2026), Autopilot HQ is the email service provider (ESP) for 361 domains — 0.06% of 617,244 SPF-publishing domains. Detection method: include: mechanisms in the SPF record.
Autopilot HQ is a marketing automation and CRM platform that provides email delivery for small to mid-sized businesses. The service handles both transactional and promotional message sending, integrated with customer relationship management features, and operates as a full-stack solution for organisations that prefer unified cloud tooling for sales and communication.
In email infrastructure, Autopilot HQ's footprint is concentrated in the long tail of smaller sites, predominantly in the .com namespace and frequently deployed alongside Google Workspace. For receiving organisations and email validators, this distribution pattern means Autopilot HQ traffic arrives from a dispersed base of smaller senders rather than from large, recognisable enterprises—a fact that influences how inbound systems profile its IP ranges and message characteristics.
| Tranco rank band | Domains | Share of its base |
|---|---|---|
| Top 1,000 | 0 | 0.0% |
| Top 10,000 | 7 | 1.9% |
| Top 100,000 | 56 | 15.5% |
| Top 1,000,000 | 281 | 77.8% |
| Unranked | 17 | 4.7% |
| TLD | Domains | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|
| .com | 220 | 60.9% | |
| .io | 17 | 4.7% | |
| .org | 14 | 3.9% | |
| .com.au | 13 | 3.6% | |
| .co | 12 | 3.3% | |
| .au | 6 | 1.7% | |
| .co.uk | 6 | 1.7% | |
| .net | 5 | 1.4% | |
| .app | 5 | 1.4% | |
| .nl | 5 | 1.4% |
Cross-tabulated from the same daily snapshot — the other email services seen on the same 361 domains.
| Type | Service | Domains | Share of Autopilot HQ users |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mailbox | Google Workspace | 244 | 67.6% |
| Mailbox | Microsoft 365 | 75 | 20.8% |
| Mailbox | Self-Hosted | 8 | 2.2% |
| Mailbox | Proofpoint | 6 | 1.7% |
| Mailbox | Mimecast | 6 | 1.7% |
| Mailbox | Barracuda | 3 | 0.8% |
| ESP | SendGrid (Twilio) | 319 | 88.4% |
| ESP | Zendesk | 69 | 19.1% |
| ESP | HubSpot | 62 | 17.2% |
| ESP | Mandrill | 62 | 17.2% |
Autopilot HQ's SPF include mechanisms appear across the long tail of business domains, making its authentication infrastructure less consolidated than that of enterprise-focused ESPs. Because the platform's user base skews toward smaller organisations with less formalised sending practices, inbound filters may associate Autopilot HQ's IP ranges with higher variance in list quality and sender behaviour than they would with major ESPs—not because Autopilot HQ itself is deficient, but because the distribution of senders using it includes more low-volume, informal deployments where list hygiene practices may be less rigorous.
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Yes; Autopilot HQ's SPF include is common in smaller business configurations, particularly those using Google Workspace. Testing against it is worthwhile if your recipient base includes small to mid-market organisations, but it is not a priority for enterprise-focused campaigns.
361 domains in the Tranco top-1M use Autopilot HQ as their email service provider (ESP) as of July 12, 2026 (0.06% of SPF-publishing domains), according to Live Direct Marketing's daily DNS scan.
Autopilot HQ accounts for 0.06% of SPF-publishing domains in the top 1M. Whether you should seed a test mailbox there depends on how much of your audience it represents — the co-usage table above shows the services it appears alongside most.
Autopilot HQ's largest TLD is .com (60.9% of its domains); it appears across 51 TLDs in total.