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Your HubSpot Integration Is Not Finished at Launch: A Five-Contract Model for Containing CRM Drift

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The integration launches on Friday. Contacts sync. Deals update. The ERP receives closed-won orders. Leadership sees a clean dashboard and declares the project finished.

Three months later, nobody can explain why the forecast and finance totals disagree.

Nothing dramatic failed. A dropdown option was renamed. A custom property became the new source of truth, but one downstream service kept reading the old field. A webhook retried after a timeout and created a second order. A new business unit installed the app with a broader set of permissions. Each change looked small. Together, they changed the meaning of the system.

This is integration drift: the gradual separation between what connected systems were designed to mean and what they now do.

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