Company Description
HubSpot, Inc. (NYSE: HUBS) is a software company in the information sector that provides a cloud-based customer platform designed to help businesses connect with customers and grow. According to the company, HubSpot delivers a unified platform that brings together marketing, sales, and customer service capabilities so customer-facing teams can work from a single system. The platform is often referred to as a growth platform and is offered as cloud-based software applications that can be used individually or packaged together.
HubSpot states that its mission is to help companies "grow better" and that it has expanded from an initial focus on inbound marketing to address marketing, sales, and service more broadly. The company was founded in 2006, completed its initial public offering in 2014, and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Its shares trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol HUBS.
Customer platform and unified architecture
HubSpot describes itself as a customer platform for scaling businesses and companies. The platform is built to deliver seamless connection for customer-facing teams through a unified architecture that includes AI-powered engagement hubs and a Smart CRM. The Smart CRM is presented as the context layer that provides a view and understanding of the customer, while the engagement hubs focus on activities across marketing, sales, service, and commerce.
The company highlights that its platform is supported by a connected ecosystem that includes an App Marketplace with thousands of integrations, a community network, and educational content. In recent descriptions, HubSpot has cited more than 1,700 and later more than 2,000 App Marketplace integrations, underscoring the breadth of third-party connections available to customers.
Cloud-based growth platform and applications
HubSpot’s software is delivered as a cloud-based platform. Earlier company descriptions note that its marketing, sales, and customer service applications are available "à la carte" or packaged together, allowing organizations to adopt individual hubs or use multiple hubs as a combined growth platform. These applications are designed to support inbound marketing and related go-to-market activities, reflecting HubSpot’s origins in inbound marketing and its evolution toward a broader customer platform.
HubSpot’s earnings disclosures show that the company generates revenue primarily through subscription arrangements for its software platform, with an additional contribution from professional services and other revenue. Subscription revenue is reported separately from professional services and other revenue in the company’s consolidated statements of operations, indicating a business model centered on recurring software subscriptions complemented by services.
AI-first customer platform focus
Recent company communications emphasize that HubSpot is reimagining its product and company to be an AI-first customer platform. Management commentary in earnings releases notes that HubSpot is embedding AI across its customer platform and that AI-powered features are intended to help go-to-market teams work smarter and faster. The company has highlighted AI-powered engagement hubs, AI features within its Smart CRM, and AI capabilities that are integrated into workflows used by marketing, sales, and service teams.
HubSpot has also introduced AI agents and assistants that it positions as digital teammates for go-to-market teams. Examples described by the company include Customer Agent and Prospecting Agent, which are presented as AI-driven tools that operate within the broader customer platform. HubSpot has stated that its strategy is to be an AI-first customer platform for scaling companies and that customers are using its platform to drive AI-related innovation and consolidate technology stacks.
Data Hub, Smart CRM, and data-centric capabilities
In its product announcements, HubSpot has introduced a Data Hub that it describes as a new hub that brings together data from external sources and includes AI tools to connect, clean, and act on data. The company notes that Data Hub replaces what it previously called Operations Hub. Within Data Hub, features such as Data Studio and Data Quality are described as AI tools that help turn scattered context into unified data and automatically identify and fix problems in customer data.
HubSpot’s Smart CRM is described as providing the most complete view and understanding of the customer by combining structured data, unstructured data, and intent signals. Features mentioned by the company include flexible CRM views (such as boards, calendars, maps, or tables), conversational and intent enrichment that uses proprietary and unstructured data, and Smart Insights that surface patterns and trends and deliver recommendations.
Marketing, sales, service, and commerce capabilities
HubSpot’s platform includes specific capabilities for marketing, sales, service, and commerce that the company describes in its product communications. Within Marketing Hub, HubSpot has highlighted Segments and Personalization features for AI-driven audience targeting, Marketing Studio for generating and optimizing campaign assets from a collaborative canvas, and AI-powered email features that use CRM data to create personalized messages. The company has also referenced an AI Engine Optimization (AEO) Strategy tool intended to help optimize how brands appear in answers generated by large language models.
In the area of commerce, HubSpot has discussed an AI-powered CPQ (Configure-Price-Quote) capability within a Commerce Hub. Features described include AI-powered quote creation based on conversations and deal context, a Closing Agent that answers product and pricing questions, quote engagement notifications, flexible approvals, and a Product Builder for creating different types of product structures and bundles.
For customer-facing teams, HubSpot has described a set of Breeze Agents across marketing, sales, and service, as well as a Breeze Assistant that acts as an AI companion. These agents and assistants are presented as being powered by unified data from the HubSpot platform and as tools that can be customized and managed through a Breeze Marketplace and Breeze Studio. The company has also referenced connectors that allow customers to bring HubSpot context into external AI tools and then act on generated content within HubSpot.
Inbound marketing heritage and the Loop playbook
HubSpot identifies itself as the creator or pioneer of Inbound Marketing, a playbook that has been used by businesses to attract customers through educational content and relationship-building. In more recent communications, the company has introduced the Loop, which it describes as a new playbook for growth in the AI era. The Loop is presented as a dynamic model that relies on hybrid teams of humans and AI working together and is organized into stages such as Express, Tailor, Amplify, and Evolve.
According to HubSpot, the Loop adapts inbound principles to a context where buyers interact across many channels and where AI-generated answers influence how customers discover information. The company describes Loop Marketing as the way marketers can bring the Loop to life using HubSpot tools, including AI assistants, connectors to external AI systems, segmentation and personalization features, and tools for measuring and iterating campaigns with AI support.
Customer base and scaling focus
HubSpot’s earnings releases refer to the company as a platform for scaling businesses and scaling companies. The company reports the number of customers using its platform and an average subscription revenue per customer metric, indicating a focus on serving a broad base of organizations through subscription software. HubSpot has reported growth in its customer count over time and has highlighted that customers use its platform to consolidate technology stacks and manage go-to-market activities.
The company’s financial disclosures show that it reports subscription revenue, professional services and other revenue, and related metrics such as calculated billings, deferred revenue, and cash flows from operations. These disclosures are provided in quarterly earnings releases and related SEC filings, which also include reconciliations of GAAP and non-GAAP financial measures.
Regulatory filings and governance
HubSpot files reports with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including Forms 10-K, 10-Q, and 8-K. For example, Form 8-K filings dated August 6, 2025 and November 5, 2025 report the issuance of press releases announcing financial results for the quarters ended June 30, 2025 and September 30, 2025, respectively. Another Form 8-K dated November 5, 2025 describes the election of a new Class III director to the company’s Board of Directors and notes that the size of the Board was increased in connection with this appointment.
The company’s SEC filings reference its use of non-GAAP financial measures and provide information on how these measures reconcile to the most directly comparable GAAP measures. Risk factors and other disclosures related to HubSpot’s business, financial condition, and operations are included in its periodic reports filed with the SEC.