#234: How HubSpot Is Reimagining the Entire Customer Journey With AI Agents
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Jon Dick discusses how HubSpot is transforming the customer journey using AI agents.
For twenty years, the percentage of time a B2B sales rep spends actually talking to customers has barely moved. Jon Dick, chief customer officer at HubSpot, thinks AI is the first thing that genuinely breaks that constraint, and he has three years of rebuilding to point to. In this AI Transformations episode, Jon takes Mike Kaput through HubSpot's agentic go-to-market model: the AEO strategy built for answer engines, the AI SDR handling most website chats, the assistant that moved win rate, and the org change that put every AI engineer under one leader. Show Notes: Access the show notes and show links here Timestamps:00:00:00 — Intro 00:03:36 — Meet Jon Dick 00:05:13 — What HubSpot was trying to solve 00:08:27 — How the transformation got started and where it stands today 00:11:48 — Beyond individual use cases: demand creation and AEO 00:15:49 — What's HubSpot native, and how they pick models 00:18:36 — What had to change organizationally 00:22:10 — Why centralizing beat the pod model 00:24:39 — What got messier along the way 00:25:46 — Results across the board 00:28:35 — Why HubSpot's go-to-market context is the advantage 00:30:19 — Advice for…
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