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CRM Audit

Severity: 🟡 HighThis audit covers HubSpot CRM data quality, property configuration, and database hygiene issues affecting GTM operations.

Executive Summary

HubSpot CRM contains 72,318 companies and 162,366 contacts, with significant data quality issues affecting GTM effectiveness. Key findings include property bloat, data inconsistencies, and hygiene problems.

Database Overview

Critical Findings

1. Property Bloat

Issue: Many unused properties across all objects.
  • Companies: 419 total properties (238 HubSpot-Defined, 181 Custom)
  • Contacts: 568 total properties (369 HubSpot-Defined, 199 Custom)
  • Many properties are unused or duplicated
Impact:
  • Confusion about which properties to use
  • Reporting inconsistencies
  • Workflow complexity
Recommendation:
  • Audit all properties for usage
  • Archive or delete unused properties
  • Document standard property set

2. Data Quality Issues

Company Name Mismatches

  • Company name ≠ website domain
  • Affects account matching and enrichment

LinkedIn URL Issues

  • Missing or incorrect LinkedIn URLs
  • Impacts contact discovery and enrichment

Email Domain Mismatches

  • Contact email domain ≠ company website
  • Causes incorrect company associations

Duplicate Companies

  • Same company with different names
  • Leads to double outreach and reporting errors

3. Baseloop Attribution

Companies:
  • 18,203 companies (25.2% of CRM) have Baseloop ID
  • 13,042 companies have Baseloop Campaign
Campaign Breakdown:
  • LinkedIn Intent: 6,322 companies
  • Cold Outreach: 5,991 companies
  • Website Intent: 1,843 companies
  • LinkedIn Engagement: 513 companies
Note: Companies can have multiple campaigns, so totals overlap Contacts:
  • 33,273 contacts (20.5% of CRM) have Baseloop ID
  • Significant portion of contacts lack Baseloop attribution

Record Sources

Data Hygiene Metrics

Recommendations

Immediate Actions

  1. Property Audit — Identify and archive unused properties
  2. Duplicate Detection — Run HubSpot duplicate detection and merge
  3. Data Quality Dashboard — Create metrics tracking

Short-term (30 Days)

  1. Standardize Properties — Consolidate duplicate fields
  2. Data Hygiene Workflows — Automate phone formatting, company matching
  3. Baseloop Attribution — Increase attribution coverage

Ongoing

  1. Quarterly Property Review — Remove unused properties
  2. Monthly Duplicate Check — Merge new duplicates
  3. Data Quality Monitoring — Track hygiene metrics