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Hub Lead Triage & Management

Inbound leads worked before anyone opens the inbox. Hub extracts and enriches incoming communications with enterprise context — linking a message to an existing account — prioritises and assigns them, and keeps the CRM in sync so the qualification step stops being a manual one.

HUB // LEAD INTAKEInbound · today
Hub Leads/Inbound · today
Auto-triage onLast sync 12s ago

New · 413

09:42 · web form

Halden Group — 'need a quote for 300 seats'

EnterpriseScore 92

09:38 · email

Student asking for a free licence

Disqualify

09:30 · event

Priya S. — booth scan, CFO

Score 71

Qualified · 182

Existing acct

Meridian Ltd — expansion, 2nd division

Match: ACC-2201

New logo

Bright Dental — 12 sites

Score 78

Assigned · 122

→ J. Park

Halden Group

SLA 2h

→ M. Costa

Bright Dental

SLA 4h

Cultivation · 91

Sequence B

Priya S. — event follow-up

Day 1 of 5

Halden Group · why 92

Fit
ICP: 250–2,000 seats · UK
Intent
'quote' + seat count
Account match
New · no CRM record
Campaign source
Q3 LinkedIn · 'Ops teams'
Owner
J. Park (territory UK-N)
Time to route
38 seconds
Accept recommendationOverride

// Problem

The Problem

Inbound demand arrives as email, and email is where it decays. Someone has to read each message, work out whether the sender is already a customer, decide whether it is worth pursuing, and route it to the right owner — and every hour that takes is an hour the lead spends cooling. Existing relationships are the ones most often missed, because the message arrives from a personal address with no account reference, and the person triaging has no way to make the connection quickly.

  • Triage means reading an inbox, so response time is bounded by whoever is on rota.
  • Inbound messages from existing accounts are treated as new leads because the link is not obvious.
  • Prioritisation is by arrival order, so a high-value enquiry queues behind a newsletter reply.
  • The CRM falls out of date immediately, because updating it is a separate manual step.

// Overview

Hub automates the mechanical parts of inbound lead management and leaves the selling to people. Incoming communications are extracted and enriched with enterprise context, so a message is linked to an existing account or contact where one exists rather than treated as a cold enquiry. Enrichment, assignment and prioritisation then run automatically, which means an owner sees a ranked, contextualised worklist rather than an inbox. The ontology and its connectors orchestrate with the systems of record — Salesforce, HubSpot, Monday and comparable CRMs — so lead information stays synchronised without a manual update step. Because the same ontology carries campaign and next-best-action workflows, a triaged lead flows straight into ongoing cultivation, and what happens to it feeds back as signal on the campaign that produced it.

// AI System

Why AI

Identity resolution is the part that needs a model. An enquiry from a personal address, signed with a first name, mentioning a project rather than a company, is recognisably from an existing account to a person who knows the book — and invisible to a rules engine matching on domain. Extracting intent from free-text email is the same class of problem. Neither is glamorous, and both are the reason inbound triage has stayed manual. The routing and write-back beneath are ordinary integration work; they simply could not be automated until the reading step was.

// Specs

Specifications

INTAKE
Inbound email and comparable communications, extracted automatically
ENRICHMENT
Enterprise context — linking to existing accounts and contacts
TRIAGE
Automated qualification, prioritisation and assignment
WRITE-BACK
Salesforce, HubSpot, Monday and comparable CRMs kept in sync
CONTINUITY
Feeds campaign optimisation and next-best-action workflows

// Features

Features

  1. 01Incoming communications extracted and enriched with enterprise context automatically.
  2. 02Messages linked to existing accounts rather than treated as unrecognised enquiries.
  3. 03Qualification, prioritisation and assignment automated, so owners receive a worklist.
  4. 04CRM systems of record kept in sync through ontology connectors, with no manual update step.
  5. 05Triaged leads flow directly into cultivation and next-best-action workflows.
  6. 06Outcomes fed back as signal on the campaign or channel that generated the lead.

// Architecture

Architecture

LEAD FLOW

Runtime · one item, left to right


  1. 01Inbound Communication
  2. 02Extraction + Enrichment
  3. 03Qualification & PrioritisationAccount MatchContact HistoryCampaign SourcePriority Signal
  4. 04Owner Assignment
  5. 05CRM Write-Back
  6. 06Cultivation Workflow

dashed = the inference step, where the system exercises judgment

System stack

Data in · decisions out

01

Sources

Every inbound channel

Web forms & chatShared inboxessales@, info@Event scansCRMSalesforce / HubSpotEnrichment providers

02

Ingestion

Seconds, not hours

Email / form parsingreal timeExtractioncompany, intent, seat countEnrichmentfirmographicsAccount matchingfuzzy, domain, history

03

Ontology

Lead in context

LeadAccount · ContactCampaign · SourceOwner · TerritoryOutcome

04AI

Intelligence

Qualify, prioritise, route

Intent extractionLLM · structuredQualification modelICP fit + intent · explained scoreRouting rulesterritory, capacity, SLASequence recommenderChannel-quality feedback loop

05Human

Human control

Owners confirm, reps sell

Owner confirms assignmentDisqualification reviewRules owned by RevOpsSLA visibility

06

Actions

Written back

CRM lead / account / oppOwner notificationCultivation sequence

Observability

Every model call traced; evals run on real cases, not anecdotes.

Governance

Entitlements enforced at retrieval; rules versioned by the organisation.

Write-back

Systems of record are written only through the approval gate.

Outcomes return to the campaign that produced the lead, closing the loop on channel quality.

// Impact

Impact

Ranked
Worklist delivered, against an inboxdesign intent
Synced
CRM state, without a manual update stepdesign intent

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