A HubSpot alternative, one price.

HubSpot's free CRM becomes hubs, tiers and seats. Daciel is one price: the pipeline kept by the agent, campaigns from the ledger, the phone on the same record.

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Reminders

Projects

Recent

Renewals at risk

Board pack, October

Supplier terms review

Churn post mortem

Which accounts are at risk this month, and draft the outreach.

Worked for 41s · 6 steps · $0.12

Read9 accounts renewing

Read14 open tickets

Comparedusage against the last two quarters

Drafted7 messages, held 2 for a person

Nine accounts renew inside 30 days and three of them are the ones to worry about. Their ticket volume is up while usage is falling, which is the pattern that preceded every churn last quarter.

Salesforce

Zendesk2 sources, permission aware

Message Daciel

Keep HubSpot connected while you switch, or for good.

One record behind every channel

Library

Everything the work produced, with who owns it and who can read it.

AllDocumentsSheetsFrom runs

Renewal brief, Acme

Document · Priya · Deal team

Q3 pipeline review

Sheet · Marcus · Sales

Supplier terms summary

Document · Ana · Private

Churn post mortem

Document · Marcus · Everyone

Board pack, October

Deck · Priya · Leadership

Access review

Sheet · Tom · Admins

Turn the renewal brief into an email to the deal team

Renewal brief, Acme

Chat

One composer, on every surface.

Vendor reviews

Q3 onboarding

Support desk

Website rebuild

Everything the renewal touched: the thread it started in, the artifacts it produced, and who is allowed to see them.

148 artifacts

Keep

Acme renewal

Payroll migration

Hiring: sales

Said once, kept for good

Any answer becomes an artifact, with an owner and a permission.

Slack

Gmail

Outlook

Google Drive

Notion

Salesforce

HubSpot

Zendesk

Jira

GitHub

Linear

Stripe

Zoom

Asana

Airtable

Dropbox

Box

Confluence

Intercom

Google Calendar

Monday

ClickUp

Figma

DocuSign

Trello

Slack

Gmail

Outlook

Connected from day one

The systems you already run, readable in one place.

Runs this week

RunOutcome and traceWhat it producedCost

1Renewal outreachApprovedRead the nine accounts renewing this quarter in Salesforce, compared each one's usage against the last two quarters, drafted seven messages and held two back for a person. 41s, 6 steps, $0.12...7 draftsTotal$0.12Model$0.09Tools$0.03

2Invoice chaseHeldMatched fourteen overdue invoices in Stripe against the support thread for each account, then stopped before sending: two of them are in an open dispute and the policy says a person decides...14 invoicesTotal$0.08Model$0.06Tools$0.02

3Monday briefingApprovedPulled every run from the last seven days, grouped them by workspace, and wrote the briefing into the Library with the trace attached to each claim so any line can be opened...1 briefingTotal$0.21Model$0.17Tools$0.04

4Access reviewApprovedListed every connection holding a write scope, checked each against the role that owns it, and flagged three that now outlive the person who created them. Nothing was revoked without asking...3 flaggedTotal$0.05Model$0.04Tools$0.01

Runs

Every step, every tool call, every cost, and who approved it.

The free CRM that became a bill

HubSpot's free CRM is where many small companies start, and the Sales, Marketing and Service hubs are where the bill starts. Daciel does the jobs those hubs sell, the pipeline, the campaigns, the inbox, and adds the phone, at one price for the business, with the agent keeping the record instead of the reps.

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RUN-2085

Chase the 14 overdue invoices

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Summarise every ticket Acme opened

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Check which renewals slipped a quarter

RUN-2200

Rewrite the onboarding mail sequence

Planned10+⋯

RUN-2211

Renewal quote for Acme, send held

Salesforce

Priya approves

RUN-926

Renewal outreach, nine accounts

Salesforce

Gmail

RUN-2088

Weekly briefing into the Library

Slack

RUN-924

Reconcile Stripe against the tickets

Stripe

RUN-1882

Tag the inbox by account

Outlook

Running3+⋯

RUN-1487

Pull usage for the at-risk accounts

4 steps

RUN-1028

Answer the RFP security section

Confluence

RUN-2187

Flag connections holding write scope

Waiting on Priya6 steps

Done48+⋯

RUN-2074

Monday briefing, written and filed

Library$0.21

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Churn post mortem for Q3

$0.14

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Board pack pulled together

$0.31

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Access review, three flagged

Approved$0.05

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Supplier terms summarised

Thread in #renewals

Marcus Hale9:12 AM

Acme wants a renewal quote. Their contract is up in three weeks.

Ana Duarte9:12 AM

Ticket volume has climbed every month this quarter. Read that before we price it.

Marcus Hale9:13 AM

So someone pulls usage, open tickets and the last two invoices. Three systems.

Priya Raman9:14 AM

And most of an afternoon. Hand it over and hold the send until one of us reads it.

Marcus Hale9:14 AM

@Daciel draft the Acme renewal from usage and tickets, hold the send

Two jobs it does on day one

A CRM the agent keeps

Leads, deals, accounts and activity written by the agent that made the call or sent the email; stages move on evidence.

See the AI CRM

Conversations

7 open · 4 answered without a person

Acme CoWhere is invoice 4417?Agent

NorthwindRefund for the duplicate seatAgent

StarlightCan we move the renewal date?Held

MeridianAPI keys stopped workingWaiting

BrightlineInvoice address is wrongAgent

KestrelDo you support SSO?Agent

HalcyonExport stopped at 10k rowsWaiting

Follow-up with a person on send

Sequences drafted from the record, held for the rep or run under a signed rule, from the rep's own mailbox and a number Daciel holds.

See the sales agent

Renewals

9 inside 30 days · 7 drafted, 2 held

Brightline$14kDrafted

Kestrel$9kSent

Halcyon$6kHeld

Why look for a HubSpot alternative?

HubSpot is a CRM with Sales, Marketing, Service and other hubs on top: pipeline, sequences, email marketing, forms, ticketing and reporting, free to start and then priced per seat and per tier, with marketing contacts priced separately.

How to switch from HubSpot

Connect what you keep

Your mailbox, store, billing and CRM connect in one click each. HubSpot itself can stay connected while you run both.

Set the brief

Hours, policies, what may be resolved alone and what waits for a person. Plain language, no macro import.

Start with everything held

Every send, spend and change is held for a named approver until the record earns a looser rule.

Run in parallel

Route one channel or one queue to Daciel first. Compare the record, not the demo.

Move the rest

Point the remaining channels and the phone line at Daciel. Cancel the seats you no longer pay for.

HubSpot alternatives, compared

Each row is a real substitute. The columns are the three things that decide it: which channels it owns, how a person stays in control, and what the month costs.

	Best for	Channels	How a person stays in control	Published pricing
HubSpot Sales Hub	Teams that want a conventional CRM with AI features layered on	Email and calling inside HubSpot	Workflows and sequences; reps send	Free CRM, then per seat by hub tier; published on their site
Pipedrive	Small sales teams that want a visual pipeline the reps keep by hand	Email sync and calling add-ons inside Pipedrive	None; reps move deals and send, automations run on triggers	Per seat per month, five tiers, published on their site
Zoho CRM	Teams already inside the Zoho suite	Email, telephony and social inside Zoho	Approval rules on records, configured by an admin	Per user per month by edition; Zoho One bundle about $37 a user
Dacielthis site	Teams that want leads found, qualified and followed up by email and phone from one pipeline, with a person signing every send	Email from the rep's own mailbox, phone from a number Daciel holds, records in its own ledgers or your CRM	Every sequence approved by a named person or a rule they signed; hard stops on do-not-contact	Contact Daciel for business plan availability and pricing.

Competitor pricing as published on each vendor's site, read 2026-08-19. Where a vendor publishes nothing, the row says so.

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Daciel

ElevenLabs

Answers in a voice you would not know from a person.

Daciel

Twilio

A direct line of its own, answering from the first ring.

Daciel

Cloudflare

Domains provisioned and shielded at the edge before they are asked for.

Daciel

Anthropic

Frontier reasoning on the work, with the trace kept for every line.

Daciel

ElevenLabs

Answers in a voice you would not know from a person.

Daciel

Twilio

A direct line of its own, answering from the first ring.

Daciel

Cloudflare

Domains provisioned and shielded at the edge before they are asked for.

Daciel

Anthropic

Frontier reasoning on the work, with the trace kept for every line.

Daciel

ElevenLabs

Answers in a voice you would not know from a person.

Daciel

Twilio

A direct line of its own, answering from the first ring.

Daciel

Cloudflare

Domains provisioned and shielded at the edge before they are asked for.

Daciel

Anthropic

Frontier reasoning on the work, with the trace kept for every line.

Connects to

No per-seat feeContact Daciel for business plan availability and pricing.

The agent keeps the recordReps decide; they do not transcribe

Sends held or ruledNothing leaves without a rep or a rule a named person signed

Safe to switch from HubSpot. An agent that reaches into your systems is held to what the person behind it may do, and shows its work.

How permissions work

Questions people ask before buying

Is Daciel a full HubSpot replacement?

For a team of five to two hundred that wants leads, deals, accounts, activity, follow-up and forecast, yes. HubSpot can also stay connected as the system of record while the agent writes into it.

Why do people leave HubSpot?

The per-seat bill as the team grows, a record the reps still keep by hand, and the phone and the inbox living in other products.

Can we import our pipeline?

Yes. Connect HubSpot and the deals, contacts and stages are read into Daciel's ledgers, or export and import.

Does Daciel include a contact database?

No. It finds companies against your brief and watches signals; verified contact data at volume remains a separate purchase.

How is Daciel priced?

Business pricing is confirmed during setup. HubSpot prices per user per month.

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