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HubSpot Updates for AI Search Visibility, Smarter Prospecting, and Faster Reporting

Written by Josh Wingate | 5/5/26

Take a look at what’s new from HubSpot's April product updates and releases.

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TL;DR - April Updates

  • Measure and improve brand visibility across AI‑powered search engines with AEO
  • Identify in‑market accounts and automate personalized outbound with Prospecting Agent
  • Create single‑ and multi‑object reports instantly using AI directly from Reporting
  • Deploy dedicated Customer Agents per brand with full brand isolation and control

     

1) Track and Improve Your Brand Visibility in AI‑Powered Search (Public Beta)

 >>This feature is available on Professional and Enterprise tiers across Marketing hub. This feature is also available as a free trial for all users.

How people discover brands has changed. Instead of scrolling through traditional search results, buyers are increasingly asking questions directly in AI‑powered answer engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini.

With the launch of AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) in Marketing Hub, HubSpot now helps teams measure, track, and improve how their brand shows up in those AI‑generated answers.

  

What changed

AEO is now available in Marketing Hub, giving teams visibility into how often — and how well — their brand appears in AI‑powered search results.

With AEO, HubSpot runs tracked prompts daily across leading answer engines and shows you:

  • Brand visibility percentage across AI responses

  • Where competitors appear when your brand doesn’t

  • Visibility trends over time

  • Performance differences across answer engines

Teams can also drill into individual prompts to see:

  • The exact AI responses returned

  • Which sources and domains are cited

  • Whether competitors are referenced — and why

AI answers often summarize categories, recommend vendors, and cite sources before a buyer ever visits a website. Because these answers are built from consensus across third‑party sources, buyers tend to trust them more than traditional search results — and leads coming from AI search arrive better informed and further along in their decision.

The challenge is that SEO alone is no longer enough. Brands now need to show up inside AI recommendations, not just blue links.

Most AEO tools stop at reporting. AEO in Marketing Hub goes further by identifying visibility gaps, explaining why they exist, and connecting recommendations directly to the tools teams already use. Because it’s powered by your CRM, AEO understands your business context — something standalone tools can’t do.

How to apply this

To get started:
  1. Open Breeze Assistant. Navigate to Marketing > AEO in your HubSpot account
    (If it doesn’t appear right away, search “AEO” in the top navigation — it can take up to 10 minutes to surface.)  
  2. Complete onboarding to confirm basic business information
  3. Review suggested prompts based on your industries, competitors, and customer segments — or add your own

HubSpot runs these prompts daily across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini, tracking how your brand appears. From there, AEO surfaces tailored content recommendations tied directly to specific prompts, explaining what to create or optimize and why.

Because AEO lives inside Marketing Hub, teams can act on those recommendations immediately using content and social tools — no spreadsheets, no platform switching.

 

2) Prospecting Agent Adds Buying Signals and Contact Sourcing (Public Beta)

>>This feature is available on Professional and Enterprise tiers across Sales Hub. Eligible customers also receive 28-day free access.

Prospecting Agent has evolved into an end‑to‑end outbound agent, helping sales teams identify in‑market companies, source the right contacts, and launch personalized outreach automatically — all driven by real‑world buying signals.

   

What changed

Prospecting Agent can now:

  • Detect companies showing predefined buying signals such as growth, hiring, funding, or intent

  • Automatically identify and source relevant contacts either from your CRM or through connected third‑party sales intelligence providers

  • Generate and enroll contacts into personalized email outreach and calling tasks

Instead of reps manually building lists and researching accounts, the agent continuously monitors for signals and takes action based on predefined Plays. 


Why it matters

Sales reps spend a significant amount of time researching companies, finding contacts, and figuring out when to reach out — often before any meaningful engagement begins. This manual work lacks intent signals and frequently leads to outreach that’s poorly timed or overly generic.

With this update, Prospecting Agent flips that model. It identifies when companies are showing signs of buying intent, sources the right contacts automatically, and generates personalized outreach so reps can engage buyers at the right moment — without manual research.

The result: more relevant conversations, better timing, and more time spent selling instead of preparing to sell.

 

How to apply this

Admins configure how the agent operates by creating Plays, which define what the Prospecting Agent should track and how it should engage.

Plays run continuously in the background and follow this flow:
  1. Prospecting Agent monitors selected companies for buying signals
  2. A triggered signal identifies relevant companies
  3. The agent recommends contacts sourced from connected third-party providers
  4. The agent drafts multichannel outreach for the sourced contacts
  5. Reps either approve outreach or allow automatic approval

There’s no list building, no refreshing, and no manual handoffs — just the agent working toward goals like booked meetings.

Notes / What to Know

Prospecting Agent integrates with third‑party sales intelligence providers to source contact data. To enable contact sourcing, at least one supported provider must be connected via OAuth inside the Prospecting Agent app.
 
 

3) Create Reports with AI Directly from Reporting

>>This feature is available on Professional and Enterprise tiers across all hubs.

Creating reports in HubSpot just got faster and more discoverable. Users can now generate reports using AI directly from the Reporting page by launching Breeze Assistant — no manual setup required.

  
 

What changed

A new “Create report with AI” option is now available from the Reporting page. Selecting this option opens Breeze Assistant in a side panel, where users can create reports through natural language chat.

With this update, users can:

  • Create both single‑object and multi‑object reports using natural language

  • See reports generated instantly inside Breeze Assistant

  • Open and save any generated report directly in the appropriate report builder

Single‑object reports automatically open in the Single Object Report Builder, while reports using two or more data sources open in the Custom Report Builder.

 

Why it matters

While AI‑generated reporting existed before, it wasn’t always easy to find or consistent with the rest of the product experience. This update brings AI reporting into Breeze Assistant, making it more powerful, more unified, and easier for users to discover.

By aligning report creation with Breeze Assistant, teams get:

  • A more intuitive way to ask reporting questions

  • Faster report creation without learning report structures

  • A consistent AI experience across HubSpot

The result is fewer barriers between a question and an answer — and more teams using reporting effectively.

 

How to apply this

To create a report with AI:

  1. Go to Reporting and click Create
  2. Select Create report with AI
  3. Use natural language to describe the report you want

When Breeze Assistant opens, it will explain what’s supported and provide example prompts to help users get started. Any report generated can be saved or edited by clicking Save or Edit in report builder.

Notes / What to Know

This change replaces the legacy AI report flow with a more flexible and consistent experience inside Breeze Assistant. Existing saved reports created with the old AI option will remain accessible, and Workflows and reporting dependencies are not impacted.

 

4) Customer Agent Now Supports Multiple Brands

>>This feature is available on Professional and Enterprise tiers across all hubs. Requires the Brands add-on and uses HubSpot Credits.

Multi‑brand organizations can now deploy dedicated Customer Agents for each brand they support. With multi‑brand support, teams can create, manage, and scale distinct Customer Agents—each with its own identity, voice, knowledge, and configuration—all within a single HubSpot portal.

   

What changed

Customer Agent now supports multiple brands, allowing organizations to create one agent per brand instead of forcing all customer interactions through a single shared agent.

With this update, teams can:

  • Create and configure a distinct Customer Agent for each brand
  • Define unique brand voice, identity, and behavior per agent
  • Train agents on brand‑specific knowledge and context
  • Maintain complete isolation between brands to prevent tone, knowledge, or context leakage

Each agent appears as its own entity across HubSpot, including:

  • Help Desk views
  • Reporting dashboards
  • Workflow builder
  • Channel assignments

Why it matters

Previously, Customer Agent assumed every company could operate with a single AI agent. For multi‑brand organizations, this created serious challenges—ranging from incorrect tone to the wrong product or brand appearing in conversations.

Multi‑brand companies need clear separation so each brand can deliver the right experience to the right audience. This update ensures:

  • No cross‑brand knowledge or context leakage
  • Predictable, brand‑specific customer experiences
  • Accurate reporting and performance tracking by brand

The result is more consistent support, stronger brand integrity, and AI‑powered experiences that scale cleanly across portfolios.



How to apply this

To use multi‑brand Customer Agent support, the Brands add‑on is required.
 
Once enabled, teams can:
  1. Create an agent per brand
    • Name and configure each agent individually
    • Set distinct brand voice and personality
    • Train the agent on brand‑specific knowledge
  1. Maintain complete brand isolation
    • Knowledge, tone, and behavior remain fully separated
    • No context bleed across brands
  2. Control where each agent is deployed
    • Clear visibility into which agent is active on each channel
    • Safeguards prevent deploying multiple agents to the same channel
    • Routing ensures customers reach the correct brand every time

This gives teams confidence that each brand’s Customer Agent is accurate, consistent, and scalable.



Honorable Mentions

1.  Sales Workspace Has Been Updated
 (Available on Professional and Enterprise tiers across Sales Hub) 

The Sales Workspace refresh improves navigation, organization, and visibility into daily priorities, helping reps stay focused and reduce context switching.

2. 110+ New and 24+ Featured Updated Apps in the HubSpot Marketplace
(Available on all hubs and tiers, depending on the app)

This month brings over 110 new apps and 24 featured updates to the HubSpot Marketplace, giving teams more ways to extend HubSpot and connect their tech stack.
 

3. See How Customer Agent Lead Qualification Is Performing
(Available on Professional and Enterprise tiers across Service Hub. Uses HubSpot Credits)

New performance insights let teams evaluate how well Customer Agent qualifies leads, making it easier to monitor effectiveness and optimize AI‑driven engagement.
 

4. Video Editor Now Available for Marketing Hub Professional and Enterprise
(Available on Professional and Enterprise tiers across Marketing Hub)

Marketing Hub Professional and Enterprise users now have access to a built‑in Video Editor, enabling faster video creation and edits without leaving HubSpot.

5.  Data Agent: CRM Data Source
(Available on Professional and Enterprise tiers across all hubs. Uses HubSpot Credits)

Data Agent can now use CRM data as a source, grounding AI insights in first‑party data teams already trust.

 

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