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HubSpot and OpenAI Deepen Partnership to Bring AI Growth to Every SMB


HubSpot and OpenAI Deepen Partnership to Bring AI Growth to Every SMB
  • by: Business Wire
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  • September 17, 2026

HubSpot and OpenAI share a mission to help SMBs grow with AI, giving them access to enterprise-grade tools built for scaling companies. Announced in Cambridge, Massachusetts, HubSpot launched the first and most popular CRM integration for ChatGPT to help businesses connect their customer context everywhere they work, and today launching the first CRM integration with ChatGPT Ads for customers to build, manage, and measure campaigns directly in HubSpot, plus an exclusive AI Growth Bundle.

Quick Intel

  • HubSpot and OpenAI deepen partnership to bring AI transformation to every SMB building on first CRM connector for ChatGPT launched in 2025.
  • Connector now most popular CRM connector for ChatGPT with 250% growth in weekly active users analyzing pipeline, tracking deals, resolving tickets from ChatGPT.
  • Updated HubSpot connector adds capabilities to run email campaigns, create landing pages for ads, analyze closed-won deals, optimize for AI search with AEO.
  • HubSpot is first CRM to integrate with ChatGPT Ads allowing SMBs to build campaigns, set budget and launch ads alongside other channels directly in HubSpot.
  • Integration delivers smarter targeting from day one and true ROI analysis tracing closed deal back to campaign that started it with unified CRM and marketing platform.
  • Introducing exclusive AI Growth Bundle with HubSpot Starter and credits up to 65% off for one year, BOGO on ChatGPT Business seats, $750 match on ChatGPT Ads spend.

From First CRM Connector to Most Popular

In 2025, HubSpot was the first CRM with a connector to ChatGPT. Launched with a simple goal: help you bring your customer knowledge into the tool you use every day. Today, it's the most popular CRM connector for ChatGPT. HubSpot has seen 250% growth in weekly active users who are using the connector to analyze and manage sales pipeline, track deals based on conversations, and resolve tickets faster – all from ChatGPT and powered by their rich customer context from HubSpot.

With the updated HubSpot connector for ChatGPT, you can run email campaigns, create landing pages for ads, analyze closed-won deals, optimize for AI search with AEO, and understand which leads are progressing – all right in ChatGPT. This works because you are bringing your HubSpot context into ChatGPT so you can work smarter and act on your pipeline faster.

"Putting AI to work shouldn't require businesses to rebuild the way they work," said Brian Landsman, VP, Global Partnerships at OpenAI. "Connecting ChatGPT with the customer knowledge in HubSpot helps teams do more with what they already know, from creating a campaign to preparing for a customer conversation. Together, we're making AI more useful and accessible to the businesses that want to grow."

First CRM to Integrate with ChatGPT Ads

But showing up in ChatGPT isn't just about how you work. It's also about where your buyers are. And increasingly, they are in ChatGPT before they ever reach your website. It is a high-intent channel that businesses can take advantage of early. So HubSpot is helping them act on opportunity with new ChatGPT Ads integration.

For SMBs, adding another ad channel usually means another tool, another dashboard, and more fragmented data, which is complexity they can't afford. By bringing ChatGPT Ads directly into HubSpot, HubSpot is giving SMBs a way to reach more audiences in AI search alongside other channels they advertise in. You can now build campaigns, set your budget, and launch ChatGPT Ads alongside every other channel you already run.

And because it is built on your CRM context, targeting is smarter from day one and you get true ROI analysis on your ChatGPT ads spend. Instead of piecing together attribution across disconnected tools, you can trace a closed deal back to the campaign that started it, and make confident budget decisions. That level of attribution is only possible when your CRM and your marketing platform are the same system.

For businesses who also use HubSpot AEO, you now have one place that brings together your paid and organic AI search efforts. You get full picture of how your business shows up across answer engines, recommendations to improve visibility, and now ability to launch ads on ChatGPT right from HubSpot.

AI Growth Bundle for Scaling Businesses

HubSpot is the only platform to partner with OpenAI to bring all of these capabilities to SMBs. Together with OpenAI, HubSpot is offering an exclusive AI Growth Bundle. Businesses can get HubSpot Starter and HubSpot credits at up to 65% off for one year, a buy-one-get-one-free offer on ChatGPT Business seats for a year, and a $750 match on ChatGPT Ads spend for new accounts opened by September 30.

"We've been working with OpenAI because we share a belief that AI shouldn't just benefit the biggest companies," said Duncan Lennox, Chief Product and Technology Officer at HubSpot. "With our HubSpot connector for ChatGPT, new ChatGPT ads integration, and new AI Growth Bundle offer, we're giving every scaling business a real shot at showing up where buyers are, understanding what's working, and acting on it quickly. That's what this partnership is really about."

 

About HubSpot

HubSpot is the agentic customer platform that helps businesses connect and grow better. HubSpot delivers seamless connection for customer-facing teams with a unified platform that includes AI-powered engagement hubs, a Smart CRM, and a connected ecosystem with over 2,000 App Marketplace integrations, a community network, and educational content.

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