By Karla Sanders, Engagement Manager at Heinz Marketing Walk into almost any pipeline review and you’ll see the same thing. Everyone has data. The CRM has data. The MAP has data. The intent platform has data. And yet the meeting...
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How we Operate as an AI-first Company
This is part three of a three-part series on how HubSpot transformed with AI. Part one covers how we build with AI. Part two covers how we grow with Agent-first GTM. Building the right engineering platform and rebuilding your go-to-market motion...
How we Grow with Agent-first GTM
This is part two of a three-part series on how HubSpot transformed with AI. Part one covers how we build with AI. Part three is how we operate as an AI-first company. Over the past three years, we have systematically...
How to do keyword research for AEO (+ Tools)
When I first started auditing content for answer engine visibility, I assumed the keyword research process was roughly the same as traditional SEO — just with a few tweaks. I was wrong. Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) keyword research isn’t just...
Intent Data vs. AI in B2B Marketing: Do You Need Both?
By Lisa Heay, Vice President of Business Operations at Heinz Marketing You’re in a marketing budget review, the tech stack is on screen, and someone points at two line items: your intent data subscription and your growing collection of AI tools....
Free Answer Engine Optimization Tools to Benchmark LLM Visibility
I’ve spent considerable time testing free answer engine optimization tools across dozens of brand audits, and the verdict is clear: you don’t need a five-figure tech stack to get meaningful AEO data. The right free tools used in the right...
Share of Voice Tools for Growing Companies
When tracking share of voice for marketing teams, it’s often assumed to be a vanity metric — a number executives like to include in board decks but one that rarely influences strategy. In practice, that assumption doesn’t hold up. Share...
Track AI Answer Engine Rivals
Every company’s competitors are showing up in AI-generated answers, but do marketers know which ones, for which queries, and why? That’s exactly what AEO competitor analysis is designed to tell teams. Answer engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google’s AI Overviews...
15 Competitor Monitoring Tools Teams Actually Use (2026)
Your competitors are adjusting pricing, launching new ad creative, publishing content that outranks yours, and showing up in AI answers you didn’t know existed — often all in the same week. Competitor monitoring tools exist to catch those moves early,...
How we Build with AI
This is part one of a three-part series on how HubSpot transformed with AI. Part two covers how we grow with Agent-first GTM. Part three is how we operate as an AI-first company. Everything we build at HubSpot exists to...


