Understand what is bought, what is configured, what has actually run, and what the business still needs. Those are four different kinds of evidence.
$3,609.85current monthly baseline
29 Sep 2026renewal · quote still needed
61 Core$0 granted seats to protect
Recommendation
Do not approve the aggressive downgrade yet. Request a written, line-item renewal quote and clear the contact, custom-object, Data, workflow-cap and seat-transition gates. The $2,048 intermediate scenario avoids the unproven contact cut but is not technically cleared either.
Commercial baseline
Current monthly run-rate is $3,609.85, corroborated by billing screenshot and paid receipt. The annualized run-rate is $43,318.20. Annual term: 29 September 2025–28 September 2026; monthly billing; renewal and next payment 29 September 2026. This is not confirmation of next-term pricing.
Protect the grant
The screenshot lists 61 Granted Core Seats at $0. They are not 61 active employees and are not automatically preserved after changes. Require duration, no-charge status, eligibility and included-seat treatment in writing.
Read the evidence correctly
Capability ≠ purchased entitlement ≠ configured artifact ≠ recent execution ≠ business value. OFF does not mean disposable; ON does not mean enrolled; published does not mean delivered; app activity is not ROI.
This guide’s boundary
Dated snapshot: 10 September 2026, not a live dashboard or automatic refresh. Public, anyone-with-link educational view; no login. No HubSpot changes are authorized or performed by this guide. Filters and scenario buttons only change the view; there are no draft, notes or calculator-entry fields.
Start with the vocabulary, then follow a real campaign, inspect usage and test the renewal assumptions.
01 · CRM foundations
Objects → records → properties → associations. Learn what the business stores and how records relate before considering deletion or migration.
02 · Hub map and licenses
Separate Hub, tier, seat, permission, add-on, credit and grant. The product map below states purchased versus unverified packaging.
03 · Follow a communication
Campaign organizes; segment selects; workflow executes; marketing email delivers the asset. A real Sales Sequence is a different personal-inbox tool.
04 · Read the actual account
Inventory proves that configurations and records exist. Recent execution and successful business outcomes require additional evidence.
05 · Govern automation
Identify outcome, accountable owner, enrollment trigger, actions, dependencies, incoming references and rollback before keeping, simplifying or retiring a workflow.
06 · Match seats to daily work
Map required features to users, permissions and purchased commitments. Do not size by job title or infer billability from deactivated labels.
07 · Understand contact economics
Separate CRM storage, marketing status, consent and eligibility. Preserve important relationships and change status only through an approved audience plan.
08 · Measure adoption and outcomes
Compare matched cohorts and bot-filtered engagement, then qualified conversations, booked meetings, supported clients or saved manual work—not raw opens alone.
09 · Compare renewal scenarios
The price presets are planning math, not order forms. Technical dependencies, transition costs and grant preservation control feasibility.
10 · Resolve the decision
Use the owner matrix, remaining business questions and source notes to obtain a defensible quote and explicit approval.
Product map · what each Hub is for
Smart CRMKeep one connected record of relationships, opportunities and service work.
Features
Contacts, companies, deals, tickets, properties, associations, pipelines and activity history; custom objects depend on entitlement.
Example
Link an OA company, its contact, a deal and a service ticket rather than maintaining four disconnected lists.
Evidence
26,718 contacts; 35,758 companies; 1,125 deals; 1,332 tickets. Three custom objects have 15 / 38 / 2 active records.
Who
Sales, marketing, service and operations; editors need appropriate seat access and permissions.
License
Core access does not equal advanced Sales or Service access. Custom-object operations require a qualifying Enterprise subscription.
Removal
The last Enterprise downgrade leaves custom-object records viewable but blocks creation/editing, new associations and custom-object workflows. Do not equate this with deletion.
Unknown
Which custom-object processes are operationally indispensable?
Marketing HubBuild audiences, run campaigns and automate marketing communication.
Features
Campaigns, segments/lists, forms, marketing emails, workflows, ads/social and reporting; exact depth varies by tier.
Example
A webinar segment can enroll in a timed marketing nurture; the campaign groups its email assets for reporting.
Evidence
Marketing Professional licensed. 18 campaigns, 437 saved lists, 172 forms and 842 non-archived marketing emails.
Who
Marketing operators and analysts with the relevant tool permissions.
License
Current $623 base plus $700 for 25,000 additional marketing contacts; base includes 2,000 and three Core seats. Campaign tools require Pro/Enterprise.
Removal
Removing only the contact add-on changes billable capacity, not CRM record storage. Retaining Marketing Pro preserves ordinary licensed marketing automation, not all Data/Enterprise actions.
Unknown
Which audiences must receive which communications, on which system?
Sales HubHelp representatives manage opportunities and personal follow-up.
Features
Sales workspace, leads, pipelines, sequences, templates, meetings, calling, forecasting and reporting; Enterprise adds higher limits and advanced governance/automation.
Example
A representative uses an individual connected inbox for a sequence with follow-up tasks, unlike a marketing campaign email.
Evidence
Enterprise licensed: 14 purchased Sales seats, 12 active assignments; 53 real Sales Sequence definitions and four deal pipelines.
Who
People who actually need advanced sales tools; not everyone with an executive or sales-related job title.
License
Public Pro $100/seat/month; proposal assumes five seats at $500. Pro supports 15 pipelines and sequences. Workflow-driven sequence enrollment requires Enterprise.
Removal
Downgrade changes custom-object eligibility if this is the last Enterprise Hub, sequence enrollment automation, reporting/governance limits and calling capacity.
Unknown
Which current and incoming users need which capabilities during the transition?
Service HubRoute service work and improve customer support.
Features
Tickets, Help Desk, routing, knowledge base, surveys, SLAs, customer-service reporting and advanced assistance where licensed.
Example
An OA support team triages tickets while designated service specialists manage advanced Help Desk views and SLAs.
Evidence
Professional licensed: five purchased and five active Service assignments; nine ticket pipelines and 1,332 active tickets.
Who
Support operators; advanced Help Desk features need an assigned Service seat. Basic ticket access also requires appropriate permissions.
License
Current five seats $350; proposal estimates two Pro seats $200. Current Pro ticket-pipeline limit is 15.
Removal
Reducing seats is not a tier downgrade. Core cannot replace every advanced service workflow, but not everyone touching a ticket necessarily needs a Service seat.
Unknown
Who owns SLAs, routing and coverage after the proposed team merger?
Data HubConnect, clean and coordinate data across systems.
Features
Data sync, custom mappings, data quality, Data Studio and advanced automation including custom code, webhook actions and formatting; features depend on tier.
Example
A call-booked workflow hands data to an external integration. Its successful downstream receipt must be proven before replacement.
Evidence
Professional licensed at $480. One enabled webhook workflow, two disabled custom-code workflows; installed-app and sync configuration inventory incomplete.
Who
Infrastructure and operations owners; Stephen should coordinate technical dependency validation.
License
Pro workflow allowance 400; highest Hub allowance wins rather than adding limits. Public Data Pro starts at $800 with one Core seat; current discounted price differs.
Removal
Lost Data-only actions fail and advance; custom sync mappings are lost and syncs turn off. Reporting capacity and the included Core seat also need review.
Unknown
What mappings, datasets, scheduled/event triggers and reports depend on Data?
Content HubCreate and manage web content connected to CRM context.
Features
Website and landing pages, blog, content tools, HubDB and related CMS capabilities; availability varies by tier.
Example
A landing page can collect webinar registrations and connect the resulting contact to marketing follow-up. This is a teaching example, not a newly built account flow.
Evidence
Zero website pages, zero landing pages and one blog post in the retrieved collections. Content paid tier is not established by billing evidence.
Who
Content and web teams when these tools are the chosen publishing system.
License
Do not infer a paid Content subscription from an accessible API or a file library. No Content price is included in these scenarios.
Removal
No Content removal is proposed. Zero pages in an accessible collection does not prove no other CMS dependency.
Unknown
Design-manager assets, knowledge base, podcasts, case studies and broader content usage were not fully inventoried.
Commerce Hub / revenue toolsConnect revenue documents and collection processes to the CRM.
Features
Quotes/CPQ, invoices, payment links, payments and subscriptions where offered and licensed; payment processing and fees are separate.
Example
An invoice linked to a customer relationship is a business CRM object, not the invoice HubSpot sends for its software subscription.
Evidence
Aggregate CRM counts include 5,022 invoices, 5,106 payments and 479 subscriptions; zero quotes in the retrieved search. No customer financial details are published.
Who
Revenue operations and finance under the appropriate access policy.
License
A standalone Commerce paid tier, processing contract and exact CPQ entitlement were not established. No invented price is added to renewal math.
Removal
No Commerce change is authorized. Integrations may create records; record existence is not proof of a purchased Commerce package.
Unknown
Payment-link and marketing-event product inventories remain incomplete.
A category of information, like contacts, companies, deals or tickets. A record is one item in that category. An object definition is not a count of people.
Contact and company
A contact represents a person; a company represents an organization. They can be associated without being the same record. CRM storage and marketing billing are different questions.
Deal and pipeline
A deal tracks a commercial opportunity. A pipeline defines its stages. This account has four deal pipelines; the current Sales Pro allowance is 15, not two.
Ticket
A record for a service request or operational case, typically managed through a ticket pipeline and service workspace.
Custom object
A business-specific category beyond the standard CRM. Here: post 90-day check-ins, coaching sessions and virtual assistants. Removing the last Enterprise entitlement restricts operations on them.
Property
A field on a record, such as lifecycle stage or marketing status. A field’s value can drive a segment or workflow. A missing value is not proof the relationship is unimportant.
Association
A link between records, such as a contact at a company or a ticket connected to a deal. Associations preserve business context; a field alone is not that relationship.
Campaign
An organizing and measurement container that groups related marketing assets. It does not itself send messages or automatically trigger a segment.
List / segment
A saved audience or record selection. Active lists update using rules; static lists hold selected membership. Membership is not consent or guaranteed sendability, and lists overlap.
Workflow
A rules engine: enrollment criteria → conditions, delays and actions. It can send marketing emails, edit records or hand data to another system. ON means enabled, not proof someone enrolled or a send succeeded.
Marketing email
A message asset sent through the marketing channel, including automated emails used by workflows. Published is not the same as delivered. A marketing nurture called a sequence is not necessarily Sales Sequences.
Real Sales Sequence
An individual-inbox sales follow-up combining email and tasks. It needs an eligible Sales/Service Pro or Enterprise seat and permissions. Workflow-based sequence enrollment has a separate Enterprise dependency.
Hub and tier
A Hub is a product area; a tier is its feature level (Free, Starter, Professional or Enterprise where offered). Having a Hub does not grant every tier feature or prove it is used.
Seat
A user’s licensed tool access. Sales/Service seats include Core access; Core does not unlock all advanced Sales/Service tools. Purchased, assigned and granted are different counts.
Permission
Authorization to perform an action within available tools. Super Admin is a permission, not a paid Sales seat. Changing a seat does not automatically fix permissions.
Marketing contact
A contact classified in the billable marketing category. Non-marketing contacts can remain in the CRM. Consent, opt-out, deliverability and billing classification are separate. Status changes and tier reductions have timing rules.
Add-on, credits and grant
Add-ons extend capacity; credits meter eligible features; grants may preserve negotiated access. The 61 no-charge Granted Core Seats must be explicitly protected in writing.
Term versus billing
An annual commitment can be paid monthly. The current term ends 28 September 2026; renewal and next payment are 29 September. The notice deadline is a separate contractual requirement.
Counts below describe accessible records and assets at the snapshot—not unique people across objects, not storage billing, and not proof of effective use.
Contacts and marketing
26,718 active contacts = 24,027 marketing + 2,691 non-marketing. The proposal’s 22,483 marketing snapshot is 1,544 below the audit. Marketing status is a billable-category proxy, not the billing-period meter.
People and access
49 non-deactivated standard users; 104 deactivated standard users. 18 app-service identities are not employees. 12 active Sales assignments and five Service assignments overlap in four people, giving 13 distinct specialized-seat users. Other combinations: 33 Core-only, two Partner and one View-only.
Adoption, not login history
44 of the 49 active users have an app action within 30 days; two are 31–90 days; three older than 90 days are Partner/View-only, not unused paid Sales/Service seats. Last Active is updated daily and is not last login or feature-level use.
Governance and capacity
13 permission sets; five non-deactivated super admins. Nine owner-embedded team IDs are partial evidence, not a complete team hierarchy. Four deal and nine ticket pipelines fit current Pro limits of 15 each.
Files and properties
1,768 files total 66,011,698,855 bytes (66.01 decimal GB) in metadata; this is not whole-account billable storage. Contacts have 588 property definitions, companies 265, deals 337 and tickets 561. Missing hubspotDefined flags are custom candidates, not a proven custom-property count.
Usage limits
Campaign-linked metrics cover 12 June–10 September 2026 and 433 asset associations, not every asset’s delivery history. Forms are inventoried, not all submission histories. Payments and commerce_payments are aliases; the table counts payments once. CRM invoices are not HubSpot software invoices.
All 523 API-visible flows are represented below using safe metadata. Curated teaching labels are shown for selected examples; other titles are deliberately replaced with IDs to avoid exposing customer or employee names.
Coverage
523 unique flows across six exhausted pages: 522 WORKFLOW + one ACTION_SET; 197 ON / 326 OFF. Full graphs read for 522; enabled workflow 1856171049 failed with HTTP 500 / ListError.INTERNAL_LIST_CONVERSION. Its actions remain unknown. Fresh reconciliation found no ID, revision or state changes during collection.
What the graphs show
2,561 action nodes: 792 marketing-email sends, 533 duration delays, 299 property edits, 264 branches and 110 enroll-other-workflow nodes. The last group resolves to 97 unique source/target links. No missing graph edges or unreachable nodes were found in readable graphs; this is not proof of business correctness.
Recent activity has limits
90-day performance returned events for 92 mapped flows, including 32 currently OFF. Legacy matching covers 364 current flows, not all 523. Missing events do not mean never used. Counts may include re-enrollment and the same person across flows; never call their sum unique contacts.
Review candidates, not deletions
26 zero-action flows are all OFF. Six conservative fingerprint groups contain 18 flows, but redacted content may differ. Two OFF flows reference placeholder email ID 0. Preserve ownership, history and incoming references before any cleanup.
The count is not the bill
The highest retained Hub allowance applies: Pro Marketing/Sales/Service 300, Data Pro 400, qualifying Enterprise 1,000 (Data Enterprise 1,100). Embedded automations are exempt. The 522 workflow-typed records minus 300 is a gross stress test of 222, NOT a confirmed excess or deletion requirement. Obtain the usage meter and written over-limit treatment.
Complexity is a triage aid
Low: at most five actions and no branch; medium: other readable graphs up to 20 actions and at most three branches; high: more than 20 actions or more than three branches. Counts: 328 low, 185 medium, nine high and one unreadable. This is an audit heuristic, not a product limit.
Explore all 523 automations
Filters are temporary view controls. No customer titles, record details, code or integration destinations are included.
These arrows explain the architecture; they are not an execution trace. A campaign does not trigger its segment. Each path has a verified email-to-campaign UUID, workflow IN_LIST criterion and workflow send action pointing to the email ID.
Read each step
Campaign: organizing container. Segment: current member population, not guaranteed sendable recipients. Workflow: enrolled records move through rules and timing. Marketing email: published message asset, not a delivery receipt.
What the three examples prove
All three original workflows are OFF and all three selected email assets are published. Each chain is a marketing nurture, not a real Sales Sequence. The examples demonstrate configured relationships, not successful sends or attribution.
Dashboard continuity exception
Enabled continuation workflow 1861308219 sends emails 2–8 and its current enrollment mode is MANUAL. Do not invent an active segment trigger from paused original 1858142032 or assume a historical enrollment occurred. The first continuation email ID is 218123373594.
Who should validate it
Marketing should confirm approved audience, consent and communication intent; Stephen should confirm trigger/action integrity and dependencies. Retained Marketing Pro/Enterprise supports the marketing toolchain, subject to actual action licensing and eligible recipients. Removing or pausing the workflow interrupts its automation, not the existence of campaign history.
Client Dashboard Launch
Campaign087c8186-1bfd-4873-a8c8-88388181cf33Organizes the email asset
53 deduplicated Sales Sequence definitions were read across 153 queried user/owner contexts, with no remaining paging cursors. User context is visibility scope, not a count of active users.
Definition evidence
The 53 sequences contain 326 API steps: 122 EMAIL, 115 TASK and 89 FINISH_ENROLLMENT. Terminal steps can appear more than once; 89 is not the sequence count. Public examples show only IDs and step counts; no sender identities, customer details or email bodies.
Professional still has sequences
Sales/Service Professional supports eligible sequence use with an assigned Sales/Service seat, connected individual work inbox and permissions. Current catalog comparisons show 5,000 sequences/account; Pro sends 500/user/day versus Enterprise 1,000. Confirm actual account limits and sender eligibility.
One separate Enterprise dependency
OFF workflow 1704753709 has a workflow-based sequence-enrollment action targeting sequence 289721966. That action requires Sales/Service Enterprise. Keeping ordinary Pro sequences does not prove this automation remains licensed.
What was not proven
Account-wide enrollment history, individual deliveries and feature-level adoption were not retrieved. Archived/deleted-user visibility is not independently guaranteed. A sequence definition is not an active send campaign.
The base capacity is 2,000. The observed marketing category is 24,027. This is a business-audience decision, not a record-deletion exercise.
The target is a 91.68% reduction
Reaching 2,000 requires 22,027 fewer marketing contacts before new inflow. Only one contact is marked marketing until the next update in the snapshot. The scenario must also address status-change timing and contract tier-reduction rules.
Hygiene helps, but does not close the gap
A deduplicated hygiene-review union has 4,064 marketing contacts with missing email, global opt-out, positive bounce history, quarantine or a current hard-bounce reason. Even reclassifying all leaves 19,963. These are review signals, not permission to remove everyone.
Protect current relationships
2,004 marketing contacts have current-customer=yes, already above the 2,000 target; only 710 have lifecycle Customer. Reconcile the customer roster and communication requirements before using either field as a rule.
Do not mistake missing tracking for no value
15,802 marketing contacts have neither recorded open nor click in 365 days; excluding all still leaves 8,225. Of these broader review signals, 3,100 were created over 365 days ago with no recorded open or click. Tracking absence is not proof of no relationship.
Fix the replenishment rule
23,352 marketing contacts have Workflow as the current marketing-status source. This field does not identify the responsible workflow or its current state. Map the setting actions and prevent approved changes from being reversed by new enrollment.
Use fair evidence
4,830 marketing contacts show an open in 90 days, but only 256 show a click. Opens may reflect privacy proxies or bots. Compare the same eligible cohorts and periods across providers, filter bots consistently and measure downstream business outcomes.
Safe order of operations
Define protected clients and essential communications → reconcile consent and deliverability → agree the future marketing audience → audit status-setting automation → approve a staged reclassification and test plan → confirm billing effective date and written tier quote. No changes are authorized by this report.
Select a preset to see the same line-item assumptions in context. These buttons do not request a quote or change the subscription.
What the math excludes
Tax, implementation, replacement software, migration, onboarding, usage credits and overages are excluded. Annual figures are monthly × 12, not a promise of annual billing or an annual vendor quote. All current discounts and no-charge grants must survive in writing.
Why $2,048 is an intermediate option
This preserves the current $700 / 25,000-contact add-on while using the same proposed five Sales Pro seats, two Service Pro seats and no Data Pro. It avoids the immediate 2,000-contact target, but not custom-object, Data, seat, phone or workflow-cap risk. A differently sized contact tier would require a separate written quote.
Public prices are comparison evidence
Current catalog starts: Marketing Pro $890/month; Sales Pro $100/seat/month; Sales Enterprise $150/seat/month billed annually; Service Pro $100/seat/month; Data Pro $800/month. Additional Core: Pro $50, Enterprise $75/month. Pro Sales onboarding is listed at $1,500; whether a renewal downgrade incurs it is unresolved. These are not this account’s negotiated rates.
Timing is contractual
29 September 2026 is renewal, not 28 September. Public guidance says contact the Contract Manager at least five business days in advance. Ask Ted for the exact enforceable notice deadline and submission requirements; do not treat the day before renewal as safe.
Both lower-cost scenarios remain conditional. None of the items below authorizes a live change.
1 · Preserve commercial entitlements
Ted: written line items, discounts, minimum seat commitments and all 61 $0 Granted Core Seats. Clarify grant duration, whether Marketing’s three and Data’s one included Core seats are additive, and what happens when Data is removed. Unassigning a seat does not itself reduce an invoice.
2 · Protect custom-object operations
Stephen with process owners: post 90-day check-ins 15 records, coaching sessions 38, virtual assistants two. Removing the last Enterprise subscription blocks creation/editing, new associations and custom-object workflows; records remain viewable. Retain entitlement or prove a migration and operating replacement before downgrade.
3 · Replace and prove Data dependencies
Enabled workflow 1817319036 contains an external webhook handoff; its name is not proof of successful downstream receipt. Two OFF custom-code workflows need preservation/review. Inventory Connected Apps, custom sync mappings, Data Studio, scheduled/event triggers, formatting/enrichment and reporting dependencies. Unknown actions and one unreadable graph prevent a universal safety claim.
4 · Reconcile the workflow meter
Stephen and HubSpot: identify chargeable versus embedded-exempt workflows, retained-Hub cap and limit add-ons. Get written handling of existing over-limit workflows. Turning OFF 326 already disabled flows is not a remedy for a creation-count cap.
5 · Map people to tools
Stephen and Alva should coordinate a private transition matrix against 12 Sales and five Service assignments, four dual holders, the proposed four incoming salespeople plus architect, and the proposed two Service users. This is a recommended responsibility, not an accepted assignment. Confirm advanced Help Desk, sequences, forecasting, calling and permissions before removing seats.
6 · Preserve reporting and governance
Sales Pro allows 100 custom reports versus Enterprise 500; Data Pro currently contributes 3,100 custom reports and 325 dashboards. Actual report/dashboard usage is unverified. Losing all Enterprise removes permission-set assignments but users retain permissions; export and review the 13 sets. Nine discovered teams do not prove total hierarchy fits Pro’s ten-team limit.
7 · Validate phone and sequence continuity
Sales Pro includes up to three numbers / 3,000 minutes versus Enterprise five / 12,000. Confirm retention and routing of all ten existing numbers and the five-number add-on. Pro sequences remain, but workflow-based sequence enrollment is Enterprise-dependent. Do not claim SSO is necessarily lost when Pro subscriptions remain.
8 · Clear audience and change approval
Business owners: protect required communications and agree the marketing-contact tier/effective date. Ted supplies a written quote; Lillie validates adoption/product fit; Zack helps business-objective and sales fit. Obtain explicit final commercial and operational approval before any mutation.
A blocked or unsupported endpoint is not proof that a feature is absent or unused.
Teams · HTTP 403
Missing settings.users.teams.read. Direct teams and full hierarchy not retrieved. Owner-embedded teams are partial discovery only; request authorized scope or a read-only administrative export.
Security, login and audit · HTTP 403
Missing account-info.security.read. Login history, security events and audit logs were not analyzed. App Last Active is a different field. An authorized export or appropriate scope is needed for stronger utilization/security conclusions.
CRM email objects · HTTP 403
The error advertises one or more of crm.schemas.emails.read, crm.objects.emails.read and sales-email-read. This blocks CRM email-object search, not the separate marketing-email metadata inventory, which succeeded.
Courses and HubDB · HTTP 403
Provider message says the needed scope is not available for public use; no exact grantable scope name was provided. Do not invent one. Confirm through supported product UI or vendor assistance.
Provider and method gaps
One enabled workflow graph returns HTTP 500, not a permission error. Payment-link and marketing-event CRM search routes returned validation errors; dedicated product inventories were not exhausted. Archived meetings, invoices, payments, subscriptions and communications cannot be paged by those routes.
Incomplete surfaces
Full granular permission matrices, installed integrations, data-sync mappings, report/dashboard usage, per-feature activity, account-wide sequence enrollment and all-email send histories remain unverified. Archived file/CMS flags returned active IDs; separate archive totals are unknown. No universal entitlement/object registry was established.
Commercial and correspondence limits
Current prices are corroborated, but next-term quote, grant preservation and exact notice deadline remain open. The supervising audit’s receipt/screenshot facts are used without publishing private artifacts. Full historic vendor correspondence was not exhausted; no claim is made that no older quote or attachment exists.
These roles separate a commercial answer from a technical or business acceptance. Internal coordination tasks below are recommendations, not claimed commitments.
Stephen · technical evidence
Infrastructure point of contact and proposal author. Coordinate dependency map, billable workflow meter, permissions export, Connected Apps review and seat-transition matrix. Preserve rollback and proof of replacement before proposing cleanup.
Alva · internal coordination
Recommended coordinator with the business teams for required audiences, sales/service coverage, timing and responsibility handoffs. Her exact approval authority is not established in the retrieved evidence.
Ted · contract and billing
Confirmed vendor owner for renewal, paperwork, contract administration and billing. Obtain final pricing, grandfathered entitlement preservation, timing, minimum commitments and written downgrade terms.
Lillie · customer success
Confirmed vendor contact for product adoption and customer-success support. Validate which capabilities the team needs and which risks require product assistance. Healthy usage is a vendor assertion, not verified ROI.
Zack · business objectives and sales
Confirmed Enterprise Account Executive contact for business objectives and sales fit. Help map commercial options to outcomes; do not substitute product positioning for contract confirmation.
Decision owner · explicit acceptance
The authorized business decision-maker approves the final quote, retained capabilities, transition costs and operating risk only after the above evidence is reconciled. No approval is inferred from viewing a preset.
These cannot be settled by counting assets or reading API labels.
Which outcomes must survive?
Rank qualified sales conversations, client communication, service response, delivery operations and reporting. Which one system should own each outcome after renewal?
Who must receive marketing?
Which current clients, prospects, partners and contractual communications must be protected, and which belong in a different approved communication channel?
What do the seat holders actually do?
Which people need personal-inbox sequences, forecasting, advanced service tools or calling during and after the transition? What is the overlap period for incoming staff?
Are custom objects operational?
Who creates and updates check-ins, coaching sessions and virtual-assistant records, and what would stop if those operations became read-only?
What is an acceptable transition cost?
How much migration effort, replacement software expense and temporary dual operation is justified by the net savings—not just the reduced HubSpot line item?
Who accepts the plan?
Who signs off on the protected audience, technical replacement proof, final quote and cutover timing? When can each dependency gate realistically be cleared?
First-party documentation was reviewed for the 10 September 2026 audit. Public catalog terms are not a substitute for your signed order form. Private source descriptions below deliberately omit private links and raw downloads.
Read-only account audit
Snapshot 10 September 2026. Complete accessible automation, data and roster pagination; exceptions explicitly listed. Private evidence retained separately.
Private source · summary only
Billing and renewal evidence
Billing screenshot confirms all current line items, 61 Granted Core Seats at $0, annual term 29 September 2025–28 September 2026 and monthly billing. Receipt corroborates $3,609.85 paid. Next payment and renewal: 29 September 2026. Screenshot facts supplied by the supervising audit; no payment details reproduced.
Private source · summary only
Internal team proposal
Stephen’s September renewal proposal supplies the $1,348 component assumptions. The proposal’s older 22,483-contact snapshot and Sales Pro two-pipeline claim are superseded by this audit.
Private source · summary only
Product & Services Catalog
Public packaging comparison, read 10 September 2026; not your negotiated order form.