HubSpot Named Its Agentic Harness 'Aviator' and Rangan Told Unbound the CRM Is Now a System of Context, Not Record

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Diginomica's September 21 write-up of HubSpot's Unbound keynote in Boston has CEO Yamini Rangan naming the two pieces of the rebuilt Smart CRM: Aviator, an agentic harness that orchestrates and manages action, and Growth Context built directly into the CRM. Her framing is that a CRM that only records is dead weight, and that the product should update itself on the customer's behalf. It is the same headless argument Salesforce made with AIforce the same week, from the other end of the market and with a named harness product rather than a framework.