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  "markdown": "Founder, Wildbit (Postmark's original maker).\n\nChris Nagele started Wildbit, the software company that built Postmark, and ran it with Natalie Nagele for more than 21 years. He wrote on Postmark's blog about email delivery, including DMARC, SPF and domain reputation. Wildbit sold Postmark and DMARC Digests to ActiveCampaign in May 2022.\n\n- X: https://x.com/cnagele\n\n## What Chris builds\n\n- [Postmark API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/postmark.md), graded B, 66.5/100, in Email delivery APIs. Transactional email API with separate broadcast streams, templates, inbound parsing and bounce handling. Founder, Wildbit (Postmark's original maker), researched 2026-10-28.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Jabal Torres](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/jabal-torres/), Lead Front End Engineer, Site; Postmark MCP server creator\n- [Jason VandeBoom](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/jason-vandeboom-2/), Founder and CEO, ActiveCampaign\n- [Josiah Mangiameli](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/josiah-mangiameli/), Head of Product\n- [Natalie Nagele](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/natalie-nagele/), CEO, Wildbit (Postmark's owner until 2022)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Chris Nagele?\n\nChris Nagele started Wildbit, the software company that built Postmark, and ran it with Natalie Nagele for more than 21 years. He wrote on Postmark's blog about email delivery, including DMARC, SPF and domain reputation. Wildbit sold Postmark and DMARC Digests to ActiveCampaign in May 2022.\n\n### What does Postmark (ActiveCampaign) make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Postmark API + MCP from Postmark (ActiveCampaign). Transactional email API with separate broadcast streams, templates, inbound parsing and bounce handling.\n\n### How are Chris's tools graded?\n\nPostmark API + MCP is graded B, 66.5 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/jmangiameli/details/experience/\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/jmangiameli\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/jabaltorres/details/experience/\n- https://postmarkapp.com/blog/the-postmark-mcp-server-one-year-later-from-4-tools-to-24\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/jabaltorres\n- https://postmarkapp.com/\n- https://postmarkapp.com/support\n- https://postmarkapp.com/support/article/integrating-postmark-with-supabase-via-smtp\n- https://postmarkapp.com/contact\n- https://postmarkapp.com/email-experts\n- https://www.wildbit.com/blog/postmark-has-been-acquired-by-activecampaign\n- https://postmarkapp.com/blog/postmark-and-dmarc-digests-acquired-by-activecampaign\n- https://postmarkapp.com/blog/author/chris\n- https://postmarkapp.com/blog/author/natalie\n- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActiveCampaign\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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