A phased HubSpot implementation designed to connect customer, implementation, support, communication, and financial information—without disrupting the systems and workflows ImagineSoftware's teams rely on today.
HubSpot will initially serve as a unified customer visibility layer across ImagineSoftware's existing systems, giving internal teams a more complete view of each customer while allowing Sales, Finance, Implementation, Client Success, and Support to continue operating in their current tools.
ImagineSoftware's customer journey spans Sales, Implementation, Client Success, Support, and Finance. Today, the information required to understand that journey is distributed across Salesforce, NetSuite, Outlook, Gong, ITA, SmartSheet, Precursive, and other internal systems. The result is fragmented handoffs, limited implementation visibility, inconsistent customer context, and significant manual effort.
Phase 1 establishes the foundation for a connected customer experience by bringing the most important information into HubSpot.
Give internal teams a shared view of customer relationships, sales history, implementation progress, communications, support activity, and financial status.
Carry important customer and commercial context from Sales to Implementation and from Implementation to Client Success.
Replace fragmented SmartSheet reporting with a structured implementation process and clear milestone visibility.
Use implementation, engagement, support, financial, and CSM signals to identify accounts that may require attention.
SmartBug recommends a controlled Phase 1 rollout focused on integration, visibility, governance, and foundational HubSpot configuration. ImagineSoftware's existing platforms will remain in place. HubSpot will operate as an overlay that connects information across systems and makes it useful to the teams responsible for the customer experience.
Intentionally deferred from Phase 1: ITA requires additional API validation and careful PHI controls. Snowflake will become more relevant once its source-system connections are complete and stable.
Connect ImagineSoftware's current systems to HubSpot and establish the matching, governance, validation, and synchronization rules required to create a trusted unified customer record.
Configure the HubSpot environment, customer experience workflows, implementation process, Service Hub workspace, reporting, portal MVP, and role-based enablement required to make the connected data operationally useful.
250 hrs · $48,750 Integration & Data Connectivity + 420 hrs · $81,900 HubSpot Configuration, Portal, Training, and Change Management
Based on a consistent project rate of $195 per hour.
The HubSpot company record will become the central visibility layer for the customer relationship.
Compliance: Phase 1 is designed to keep PHI out of HubSpot. Only approved operational, customer, financial, implementation, and aggregate support information should be synchronized.
SmartBug will configure a structured implementation process in HubSpot that provides greater visibility than the current SmartSheet export model and preserves important context from the sales process.
The final process may contain approximately 20 stages or milestones based on ImagineSoftware's approved implementation methodology.
Create an implementation record when an approved sales milestone is reached.
Carry the customer's stakeholders, goals, purchased solutions, commitments, and other approved context into implementation.
Assign owners, create tasks, send notifications, and identify overdue milestones.
Automatically notify and prepare the Client Success team when implementation reaches completion.
Scope guardrail: This Phase 1 solution provides implementation visibility and milestone management. It is not intended to fully replace every professional services automation, resource planning, time tracking, or project profitability capability currently available through Precursive or other project-management platforms.
Once customer, implementation, communication, support, and financial signals are visible together, ImagineSoftware can begin identifying risk earlier and coordinating customer outreach more effectively.
Scope note: ITA will remain in place during Phase 1. HubSpot will not become the system of record for PHI, clinical information, or restricted healthcare documentation.
A client-facing implementation portal MVP will allow approved customer contacts to view selected implementation milestones and status information without relying entirely on email updates or manual status requests.
Important: The final portal architecture is subject to licensing and technical validation during discovery. The Phase 1 scope includes a defined MVP allowance rather than an unrestricted custom portal build.
HubSpot reporting will focus on operational visibility and customer experience management. Power BI and Snowflake will remain part of ImagineSoftware's broader enterprise analytics environment.
Change management is central to the Phase 1 recommendation. SmartBug will help ImagineSoftware introduce the new visibility and workflows without forcing an immediate full-platform migration.
Focused scope: Phase 1 training is intentionally focused on the new customer visibility, implementation, service, and reporting capabilities. A full Sales Hub rollout and sales-team migration are reserved for a future phase.
SmartBug recommends a coordinated Phase 1 engagement that combines system integration with the HubSpot configuration, operational workflows, reporting, portal experience, training, and change management required to make the connected information useful.
Connect Salesforce, NetSuite, Outlook, and Gong to HubSpot while establishing the data governance, record matching, synchronization, testing, and monitoring required to create a trusted unified customer record.
Configure the HubSpot environment, implementation process, customer success workspace, Service Hub capabilities, client portal MVP, reporting, training, and change management required for the Phase 1 customer visibility foundation.
Based on a consistent project rate of $195 per hour.
This recommendation is structured as an estimated-hours engagement based on the requirements currently available. SmartBug will manage the project through transparent time tracking, weekly status reporting, milestone reviews, budget visibility, and formal change control.
The estimated investment includes project management and defined contingency allowances for both the integration and HubSpot configuration workstreams — already counted within the 670 hours and $130,650 total.
SmartBug will notify ImagineSoftware before exceeding the approved project estimate. Newly identified requirements may be addressed by reprioritizing remaining hours, using available contingency, or executing a mutually approved change order.
HubSpot licensing, third-party subscriptions, taxes, and travel expenses are not included in the estimated project investment.
All work estimated at $195 per hour. HubSpot licensing and third-party subscription fees are separate.
Timeline callout: The exact schedule will be confirmed following discovery and depends on stakeholder availability, system access, data quality, NetSuite prerequisites, and timely decisions.
Each of these items can be evaluated as part of ImagineSoftware's longer-term HubSpot roadmap after the foundational customer visibility layer is established.
SmartBug brings together HubSpot strategy, CRM architecture, integration expertise, healthcare awareness, change management, and customer experience design within one coordinated team. This engagement requires more than connecting systems. It requires translating fragmented customer information into workflows and experiences that ImagineSoftware's teams will trust and use.
Hundreds of HubSpot implementations across complex CRM, marketing, sales, and service rollouts.
Practical experience navigating PHI boundaries, HIPAA-aware delivery, and clinical-adjacent data environments.
In-house integration architects and developers for Salesforce, NetSuite, Outlook, Gong, custom middleware, and beyond.
A large bench of HubSpot-certified consultants, architects, and trainers — not a sub-contracted delivery model.
Adoption-first delivery designed for enterprise teams who can't afford a failed rollout.
Distributed delivery with the ability to support occasional on-site working sessions and executive workshops.
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Phase 1 gives ImagineSoftware a practical path to greater customer visibility without forcing an immediate replacement of the systems or workflows its teams rely on today. SmartBug will help ImagineSoftware connect the data, configure the operating foundation, guide adoption, and establish a roadmap for future platform expansion.