Cloud Humans vs Hubspot

Many companies continue using HubSpot as their CRM but choose Cloud Humans for customer support and AI. Understand why.

Many companies continue using HubSpot as their CRM but choose Cloud Humans for customer support and AI. Understand why.

Updated on: January 29, 2026 • By: Bruno Cecatto • Reading time: 6 min

Quick answer

If you use HubSpot as a CRM and your support mainly happens on WhatsApp, don’t try to force HubSpot to become a helpdesk.

In most cases, the best decision is to keep HubSpot for CRM, marketing, and sales, and use Cloud Humans for support, messaging, and AI, integrated with your data.

You can even use the AI from Cloud Humans inside HubSpot’s Service Hub. 

It works and can be a good way to do a quick test. It’s worth emphasizing that you give up using a native WhatsApp helpdesk, which is cheaper, offers better usability for support, and is designed for quick messaging operations.

Straight to the point

  • If your goal is to scale support on WhatsApp → use Cloud Humans as a helpdesk and integrate it with HubSpot.

  • If you want to keep everything within HubSpot → you can use the AI from Cloud Humans there, knowing that you will lose the ideal support experience.

  • If you are constrained by dollar costs, licenses, and modules → start with an operation in reais, without the obligation of licenses.

  • If the biggest risk is relying on expensive consultancies to make HubSpot work well → use Cloud Humans, which is a solution that already includes this in the setup.

  • If you need results in up to 30 days → run a pilot only with ClaudIA in the Service Hub (if you change nothing about tools).

  • If you want close and quick support → use Cloud Humans, which is a solution with a team in Brazil and a direct channel on Slack.

  • Common mistake: trying to resolve WhatsApp “inside” HubSpot. How to avoid: separate CRM from support. The native WhatsApp solutions are expensive and limited, and the brokers recommended by them do not have AI solutions for support.


Recommended next step: run a free diagnosis with your real conversations. Find out the potential for automation for free with Cloud Humans without having to commit to the solution.

Decision in 30 seconds

Check what is true. If 3 or more are checked, consider hiring HubSpot only as a CRM and take customer service and sales to Cloud Humans.

Criterion

Yes

Why this matters

What to do when it’s “Yes”

Main support is WhatsApp

[ ]

HubSpot was not designed for messaging

Use Cloud Humans as helpdesk

Agents spend the day attending in HubSpot

[ ]

Poor UX for support

Move support out of HubSpot

Uses parallel integrations for WhatsApp

[ ]

Operational fragility

Centralize in Cloud Humans





Needs to hire consulting to operate HubSpot

[ ]

Structural complexity

Use included setup from Cloud Humans






Does the team copy and paste many responses?

[ ]

Mechanical work

Automate N1 with ClaudIA

Is quick and close support important?

[ ]

HubSpot is global and impersonal

Cloud Humans support on Slack

What does it mean to separate CRM from customer support?

It is to keep HubSpot as the commercial brain and use Cloud Humans as the operational brain of service. The tools can work 100% integrated. Cloud Humans can receive data from HubSpot about contacts, leads, opportunities, accounts, and much more. In addition, it is possible to create triggers and flows in HubSpot that trigger Cloud Chat to send bulk messages to your contacts. The opposite is also true: conversation data (from AI and humans) in Cloud Chat can be updated in properties of HubSpot.

In practice, service takes place in Cloud Humans, using all HubSpot data in real time.

Important:
There is native integration that allows using Cloud Humans' AI within the Service Hub.

It works well for those who want to remain 100% on HubSpot.
But you lose:

  • Helpdesk designed for WhatsApp

  • Service usability

  • Advanced messaging features

When this makes sense and when it doesn’t

It makes sense when:

  • WhatsApp is a critical channel

  • You don’t want to rely on external consultants to operate the tool well

  • You want close support in Brazil

It does not make sense when:

  • Channel is only email

  • You want to keep absolutely everything within HubSpot even sacrificing efficiency

How to do it the right way

Although Cloud Humans has a complete solution, the biggest advantage is using AI as a Level 1 attendant in sales and support. It is possible to conduct a small and quick test before making a big change:

Objective: in 30 days, have AI solving part of the service on WhatsApp.

  1. Define the expected outcome
    Example: 40–60% of N1 contacts resolved by AI (Cloud Humans can help you conduct a free diagnosis to know your maximum automation potential)

  2. Choose a small scope
    Just one channel using main Contents/FAQs (Cloud Humans helps you with the entire setup)

  3. Create simple quality rules

  4. Run a short pilot

  5. Measure, adjust, and decide to expand or not

Sources to support

  • WhatsApp is currently the main customer service channel in Brazil and requires its own tools.

  • Companies that use CRM as helpdesk lose efficiency

  • Messaging requires its own usability

  • AI works better when it is integrated into the service flow

Reference: Meta Business Messaging Report (2025)

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FAQ

  1. Do I need to remove HubSpot?
    No.

  1. Can I use Cloud Humans AI within HubSpot?
    Yes, but it loses part of the ideal experience.

  2. Does Cloud Humans integrate in real time?
    Yes.

  3. Do I need to hire consulting?
    No. It’s included in the setup.

  4. Is the contract long?
    No. It’s much more flexible than HubSpot.

  5. Is support in Brazil?
    Yes, including via private Slack.

  6. Does it only work for WhatsApp?
    WhatsApp, email, chat, and more.


Does it take months to run?The average is 21 days for complete setup.

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Still unsure?

Chat directly with

ClaudIA on WhatsApp

There’s no better way than trying it yourself. Send a message to ClaudIA and see how an AI agent truly understands, resolves, and interacts like a human.

WhatsApp with ClaudIA, the AI from Cloud Humans that helps with interaction on WhatsApp without the need for human assistance.

Still unsure?

Talk directly to

ClaudIA on WhatsApp

There’s no better way than trying it yourself. Send a message to ClaudIA and see how an AI agent truly understands, resolves, and interacts like a human.

WhatsApp with ClaudIA, the AI from Cloud Humans that helps with interaction on WhatsApp without the need for human assistance.

Still unsure?

Talk directly to

ClaudIA on WhatsApp

There’s no better way than trying it yourself. Send a message to ClaudIA and see how an AI agent truly understands, resolves, and interacts like a human.

WhatsApp with ClaudIA, the AI from Cloud Humans that helps with interaction on WhatsApp without the need for human assistance.