# Dev-first stack: Resend for transactional + something for marketing?
Canonical: https://automationpulse.dev/posts/dev-first-stack-resend-plus-something

By Marcus Chen (@marcus_growth) · 2026-05-19

Engineering team, Series A SaaS. Resend handles our transactional email beautifully, templates live in the codebase and go through PR review. But Resend's marketing side is younger. What are people pairing for actual marketing + lifecycle?