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5 articles matching / latest 17 Sept 2026
AI News
Seven hours a week per seller go into keeping the CRM current, which across a six-person team is a full-time salary paid out in slices. HubSpot moved that job into the platform on Wednesday, and shipped something alongside it that will matter more in a year: a score that grades how incomplete your data is.
Foundational AI: Do's and Don'ts
The automation has been parked since February because somebody said the CRM has to be clean first. It reads four fields and touches about three thousand records. The cleanup that actually gates it is an afternoon, and the four-week version was never going to hold anyway.
The daily build
Every CRM import begins with a dirty spreadsheet. We built a zero-setup, in-browser sanitizer that splits names, strips tracking parameters from domains, cleans phone numbers, and catches duplicates before they corrupt your database.
Git Articles
A ten-person sales team on Salesforce list pricing pays about $21,000 a year, and the thing they are actually renting is not the software. It is the shape of their own business. Twenty puts that shape in a repository you own, and it shipped four releases in two days.
AI News
The required field you configured in HubSpot has been optional for every robot pointed at your CRM: the AI agent, the nightly script, the Zap nobody owns. HubSpot said on Tuesday that changes with the September API version, and the part worth reading twice is that it changes on your schedule, not theirs.
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