CRM Forks Into Two Opposing AI Architectures: Rip-and-Replace (Lightfield) vs. Overlay-Without-Replacement (Aurasell)
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The AI-CRM market is splitting on architecture rather than features: Lightfield and peers (Attio, Monaco, Reevo) pursue full rip-and-replace of Salesforce/HubSpot with self-updating, memory-native systems, while Aurasell ships an AI-native go-to-market operating system that layers on top of existing CRMs with explicitly no replacement required. SaaStr reframes the buyer's question from 'Salesforce or HubSpot?' to 'follow the agents' — pick the platform where your agents do the most work — making agent capability, not UI or integrations, the new selection criterion.