CRM Health Glossary

Key terms and definitions for HubSpot CRM health analysis, data quality, and AI readiness.

AI Readiness

A measure of how prepared your CRM data is to power machine learning models and AI features. High AI readiness means your data is complete, consistently formatted, well-associated, and has sufficient activity depth for pattern recognition.

Read more: Is Your HubSpot CRM Ready for AI?

Association Analysis

The evaluation of how well CRM records are linked to each other — contacts to companies, deals to contacts, tickets to companies, etc. Healthy associations enable accurate reporting, proper attribution, and effective automation.

BANT

A deal qualification framework that evaluates Budget, Authority, Need, and Timeline. Used to determine whether a prospect is a good fit before investing significant sales effort. PortalPilot's BANT Readiness score checks whether your deal properties capture these four dimensions.

Breeze AI Readiness

Specifically how prepared your HubSpot data is for HubSpot's Breeze AI features — including Breeze Intelligence (data enrichment), Breeze Copilot (AI assistant), and Breeze Agents (autonomous workflows). Requires clean, complete, well-structured data across all object types.

Read more: Is Your HubSpot Data Ready for Breeze AI?

CLG (Community-Led Growth)

A growth strategy where community engagement, referrals, and advocacy drive acquisition and retention. In a CRM context, CLG readiness means tracking community participation, referral sources, and advocate status as contact properties.

Composite AI Readiness Score

A weighted score that combines six data quality dimensions — completeness, consistency, association health, activity depth, governance maturity, and compliance readiness — into a single percentage indicating how well your CRM data can support AI and machine learning features.

CRM Health Score

A numerical rating (typically 0-100) that evaluates the overall quality, completeness, and effectiveness of your CRM data and configuration. It aggregates multiple data quality metrics into a single actionable score, similar to a credit score for your database.

Read more: CRM Health Scores Explained

Data Governance

The policies, processes, and standards that ensure CRM data is accurate, consistent, secure, and useful over time. Includes property creation approval processes, naming conventions, data entry standards, access controls, and regular audit schedules.

Data Quality Audit

A systematic review of your CRM data to identify issues like incomplete records, inconsistent formatting, duplicate entries, orphaned associations, and unused properties. Audits can be point-in-time (one-off) or continuous (ongoing monitoring).

Read more: How to Run a HubSpot Data Quality Audit

GTM (Go-To-Market)

The strategy and alignment between sales, marketing, and customer success to bring a product to market. GTM Motion in PortalPilot measures how well your CRM data supports this alignment — lead source attribution, marketing-to-sales handoff, and pipeline source visibility.

ICP (Ideal Customer Profile)

A detailed description of the company that would get the most value from your product. Defined by firmographic attributes like industry, company size, revenue, and geography. ICP Alignment in PortalPilot checks whether your CRM has the fields needed to identify and score accounts against your ideal profile.

MEDDIC

An enterprise sales qualification framework: Metrics, Economic Buyer, Decision Criteria, Decision Process, Identify Pain, Champion. More detailed than BANT, used in complex B2B sales. PortalPilot's MEDDIC Readiness score checks whether your deal and contact properties support this methodology.

NRR (Net Revenue Retention)

A metric that measures the percentage of recurring revenue retained from existing customers over a period, including expansion (upsells, cross-sells) and contraction (downgrades, churn). An NRR above 100% means you're growing revenue from existing customers. PortalPilot's NRR Readiness score checks whether your CRM can track the signals needed to calculate this.

PLG (Product-Led Growth)

A growth strategy where the product itself drives acquisition, activation, and retention — typically through free trials, freemium tiers, or self-serve onboarding. In a CRM context, PLG readiness means tracking product usage events, activation milestones, and conversion triggers as contact or company properties.

Portal Health

The overall state of a HubSpot portal's configuration, data quality, and operational effectiveness. Encompasses property hygiene, data completeness, association health, workflow efficiency, and alignment between CRM setup and business processes.

Read more: Portal Health Without Enterprise

Property Hygiene

The ongoing practice of maintaining clean, organized, and purposeful custom properties in your CRM. It covers property naming conventions, eliminating duplicates, removing unused fields, ensuring consistent data types, and documenting property purposes.

Read more: HubSpot Property Hygiene Guide

Property Sprawl

The uncontrolled growth of custom properties in a CRM over time. Typically caused by multiple teams creating fields without coordination, leading to duplicate properties, inconsistent naming, and an overwhelming number of unused fields.

RevOps Maturity

The degree to which an organization has aligned people, processes, data, and technology to drive predictable revenue growth. Measured across dimensions like process alignment, data governance, technology utilization, and team structure — typically on a 5-level scale from Ad Hoc to Optimized.

Read more: RevOps Maturity Model

SPICED

A deal qualification framework that captures: Situation (context), Pain (problems), Impact (consequences), Critical Event (deadline or trigger), and Decision (criteria and process). Used by modern sales teams as an alternative to BANT. PortalPilot's SPICED Alignment score checks whether your deal properties map to these five dimensions.

Zombie Properties

CRM properties that exist in the schema but contain no data or are no longer used by any active workflow, report, or team. They add noise to the interface and make it harder for users to find the fields that matter.