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title: "Alphie x Warmly: Your CRM's Agent, or Your Own | Alphie Blog"
description: "Warmly is joining HubSpot, and its roadmap will follow. Alphie stays CRM-agnostic, identifies at the company level, and runs itself. A comparison of mechanism, price, and who should pick which."
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Warmly and Alphie do more of the same job than Warmly and RB2B do. Both identify the visitor, both open a conversation while the visitor is still on the page, both route a rep in and both follow up by email when nobody converts. If you only read the feature lists, Warmly's is longer.

What separates them is a question the feature lists don't answer: who owns the layer that talks to your buyers. On June 30, 2026, Warmly announced it had agreed to be acquired by HubSpot. Its CEO said existing contracts, pricing and integrations stay as they are, and that the longer-term ambition is to connect Warmly's context and agents across HubSpot's platform. That is a reasonable plan for Warmly and a good outcome for its 223 paying HubSpot-integrated customers. It also tells you which CRM the next few years of Warmly features will be designed for.

Alphie is built to stay independent of whichever CRM you run, including one you wrote yourself. I'm going to argue that for a B2B company with real inbound traffic and no intention of standardizing its whole stack on one vendor, that independence is worth more than Warmly's breadth. I'll also be clear about where Warmly is the better product, and I'll say why you don't actually have to choose between them.

## What Warmly does, and where it is going

Warmly is a pixel plus two agents plus a data layer. The pixel captures the session; Warmly's identity graph matches it against what the company describes as 220M+ contact records and returns, when it can, a person: name, work email, title, LinkedIn URL. The Inbound Agent then acts on that while the visitor is on the page -- AI chat, live chat with a rep, popups, personalized landing pages, meeting booking, Slack alerts, routing rules, and email or LinkedIn-ad retargeting afterwards. The TAM Agent works the other direction: it builds audiences from your ICP, scores intent with third-party data (Bombora is the named partner), maps buying committees and runs outbound. Underneath both sits what Warmly calls the Context Graph, which pulls in CRM history, email engagement, call transcripts and ad clicks so the agents have the whole account in view.

Warmly is honest about the identification numbers. Its own visitor-identification page says person-level identification runs at 15-30% of typical B2B traffic, and that company-level tools run at 30-60%. The trade-off is deliberate: Warmly would rather return fewer visitors with verified contact details than more visitors with only a company name.

The same page is specific about how the autonomy works. It describes a "trust progression": high-value actions, like the AI chatting to a C-suite visitor, are first routed to a rep for approval, and after roughly a hundred calibrated decisions the AI acts on its own for the patterns it has proven. Warmly sells Forward Deployed Engineer and Customer Success packages alongside the software. Taken together, that's a product that expects to be configured, supervised and tuned, and that rewards the teams who do it.

Integrations are broad. The integrations page lists HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Close, Zoho, Microsoft Dynamics and half a dozen smaller CRMs, plus Outreach, Salesloft, Apollo, Slack, Teams and a webhook. Nobody buying Warmly today is locked into HubSpot.

Then there's the acquisition. On June 30, 2026, Warmly's CEO Max Greenwald posted that the company had entered an agreement to be acquired by HubSpot. What he wrote to customers was precise: existing contract, pricing, account team, product experience and integrations remain unchanged today, and the longer-term ambition is "to make Warmly even more powerful for our customers by connecting our context and agent capabilities across HubSpot's customer platform." In his LinkedIn post he gave the number behind the deal: 223 paying customers integrated with HubSpot in 2026, up from 20 in 2024. HubSpot was Warmly's first integration, in 2023, and the CRM where Warmly stored its chat transcripts.

None of that says Warmly is winding down, whatever the "Warmly alternatives" posts published that week implied. It says Warmly is becoming part of the platform it was always closest to. If you run HubSpot, that's good news. If you don't, the next few years of Warmly features will be built for a CRM you aren't using.

## The CRM question

There are two ways to build the layer that identifies, qualifies and talks to your website visitors. One is to make it a feature of the CRM: the data lands in the system of record, the agent reads from it, and the whole thing improves as more of your stack moves onto the same platform. The other is to make it a standalone system that treats the CRM as one destination among several. Warmly started as the second and is being bought to become the first. Alphie is the second and is staying there.

Warmly connects to more CRMs than Alphie does, and HubSpot has said that stays. What changes is which direction the roadmap bends. A product owned by a CRM vendor will, reasonably, put its best work where that vendor's customers are. Features will assume the HubSpot data model first. The deepest version of the Context Graph will be the one that reads HubSpot objects natively. Over a two- or three-year horizon, running Warmly on Salesforce, Pipedrive or Attio means running the version that gets the second-best attention. That isn't a criticism of HubSpot or Warmly; it's how acquisitions of this kind work, and the cleanest precedent is Salesforce buying Qualified seven months earlier.

Alphie's answer is to not have a home CRM at all. The product keeps its own record of every identified company, its ICP score, the pages viewed, the conversation and the outbound that followed, and pushes that record wherever you tell it to: HubSpot, Salesforce, Attio, Airtable, or through a read-only REST API into anything else. Alphie doesn't know what's on the other end. If you change CRMs next year, you change one connection in the dashboard and nothing else about how Alphie works.

The practical test: ask what happens to your visitor-identification and on-site engagement if you leave the CRM you're on today. With Alphie the answer is nothing. With Warmly the answer, after the acquisition closes and the roadmap converges, will be: it depends which CRM you're leaving.

## Identification: who visited, or which company did

Warmly identifies people. Alphie identifies companies. Both are defensible choices, and Warmly's own numbers are the best way to see the trade.

Warmly's visitor-identification page puts person-level identification at 15-30% of typical B2B traffic and company-level at 30-60%. Its worked example is 10,000 monthly visitors, of which Warmly identifies 1,500-3,000 people. Alphie's figure on the same kind of traffic is about 60% of US visitors identified at the company level, with ISP and carrier traffic excluded so the count isn't padded with resolutions that aren't really companies. On the same 10,000 visitors that's roughly twice as many identified sessions, each one a company name rather than a person's.

Why the gap? Person-level identification needs a match between this session and a record of a specific human, and that data is thin, uneven and often stale. Company-level identification needs a match between an IP, a device and an organisation, which is a far easier problem with far better data behind it. Alphie makes it easier still by not trusting any one source. When a visitor lands, Alphie queries several leading identification providers at once and fuses the answers in real time, taking the match where the sources agree and the best-evidenced one where they don't. Where one provider is blind, another usually isn't. That is how the number gets to 60%.

The objection is obvious: a company name doesn't tell your SDR who to email. Warmly makes exactly this point on its site, and against a company-only tool like Leadfeeder it lands. Alphie's answer is that it doesn't stop at the company. Once the company is identified and scored against your ICP, Alphie uses the ICP to work out which roles at that company are the likely buyers, finds the people in those roles with verified email and LinkedIn, and writes to them. That's inference, not identification: Alphie is not claiming those people visited. It is also exactly what an ABM or outbound motion does anyway: decide the account, then pick the roles. Alphie just does it in the sixty seconds after the visit instead of in a planning spreadsheet. You get the coverage of company-level identification without giving up the specificity that makes outreach work.

Where person-level still wins is when the individual visitor is the whole point: a named lead already in a sequence, a champion coming back to the pricing page, a specific person you want to recognise on arrival. Warmly's HubSpot and Outreach integrations are built around that, and Alphie can't do it. If that's your motion, read the "Where Warmly wins" section twice.

## Setup and upkeep

Both products install with one script tag. What happens in the following week is where they diverge.

Warmly's own getting-started sequence is five steps: install the pixel, watch visitors get identified, connect HubSpot or Salesforce, configure alerts and routing rules, then let the agents engage. Its pricing page lists one AI Studio agent on the Inbound Chat plan and unlimited agents plus an Autopilot agent on the $30,000-a-year plan, with the Forward Deployed Engineer and Customer Success services sold next to them. The trust progression described above -- rep approval first, autonomy after about a hundred calibrated decisions -- means someone on your side is reviewing the AI's choices for the first few weeks. For a team with a RevOps function that's a feature: you get to shape the agent. For a founder or a two-person growth team it's a second job.

Alphie is built on the assumption that nobody will have that second job. You paste the script tag, connect Slack and your CRM from the dashboard, and describe your ICP and your product in plain language. That takes under 30 minutes, and most customers do it without a call. From there Alphie decides on its own which visitors to score, when to open the panel, what content to show, when to alert a rep and when to send the follow-up sequence. There is no agent studio, no routing-rule builder and no approval queue to work through, because the decisions those tools exist to encode are the ones Alphie makes itself from the ICP and the behaviour it sees. You can set email to wait for your approval if you want to; you don't have to.

We call this a self-driving website, and the analogy holds in both directions. You set the destination, you can take the wheel at any point, and the car doesn't need you in the seat to move. Alphie's Slack alert is the take-the-wheel moment: one click puts a human in the chat. The rest of the time it opens the panel, answers the visitor's questions, books the meeting or sends the sequence without asking.

The cost of this design is surface area. Warmly gives you more knobs -- popups, landing pages, ad audiences, an AI call agent, a TAM agent that builds outbound lists -- and if you have the people to turn them, you'll get more out of Warmly than out of Alphie. Alphie trades that surface area for a product that keeps working when nobody is looking at it.

## Pricing

Warmly's pricing page lists three plans, each "starting at" an annual figure and each gated behind Talk To Sales: AI Web-Deanonymization from $10,000 a year, Inbound Chat from $20,000 a year, and AI Inbound Autopilot from $30,000 a year, all from 10,000 credits a month. Quarterly billing is $4,875, $6,500 and $9,750 respectively, which works out to roughly $1,625, $2,167 and $3,250 a month. Add-ons run $10,000 a year each for the GTM Signals package and Warm Experiences; the video chat agent is quoted. There is no free plan on the pricing page.

The plan to compare with Alphie is Inbound Chat, because that's the first one with a conversation in it. $20,000 a year, before signals, before personalised experiences, before the second agent.

Alphie's plans are $249, $499 and $1,199 a month, capped at 250, 500 and 1,500 identified companies a month, with one to five seats included. Every plan starts with the first 100 identified companies free; on the Free plan that's with no card and outbound drafted but not sent, on a paid plan everything is switched on and billing starts from company 101. There's no overage: if you pass your cap two months running you move up a plan, with notice. On-site chat, Slack handoff, in-panel booking, the email sequence and CRM sync are on every paid plan; LinkedIn outreach through HeyReach or Dripify comes in on Startup. Annual billing takes 16% off.

So the honest comparison is Alphie Startup at $499 a month, or $5,988 a year, against Warmly Inbound Chat at $20,000 a year. Warmly's price buys person-level identification, a much larger integration list, the TAM agent's outbound and the services to run it all. Alphie's price buys company-level identification at about twice the coverage, the on-site conversation, the handoff, the follow-up, and a product that doesn't need a sales call to start or an engineer to keep running. Whether the $14,000 difference is worth it depends on whether you have the team to use what Warmly adds.

## Side by side

| | Warmly | Alphie |
| Ownership | Agreed to be acquired by HubSpot (announced June 30, 2026); long-term plan is to connect its agents and context across HubSpot's platform | Independent; no home CRM |
| CRM | HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Close, Zoho, Dynamics and others; webhook | HubSpot, Salesforce, Attio, Airtable; read-only REST API for custom-built CRMs |
| Identification level | Person (name, email, title, LinkedIn); company as fallback | Company only, US traffic, real time; buyer-role contacts found per company |
| Stated coverage | 15-30% of B2B traffic at person level; 30-60% at company level (Warmly's own figures) | ~60% of US visitors at company level, ISP traffic excluded |
| Identification method | First-party pixel plus Warmly's identity graph (220M+ contact records) | Several identification providers queried at once, answers fused in real time |
| ICP and scoring | AI ICP tiering plus ML intent score, with Bombora third-party intent | ICP score from your profile plus behavioural triggers per scenario |
| On-site engagement | AI chat, live chat, popups, personalised landing pages, booking | AI assistant panel with content picked per visitor; embedded chat option; in-panel booking |
| Rep handoff | Slack and Teams alerts; routing rules you configure | Slack alert with one-click live chat; AI announces the handoff |
| Re-engagement if they leave | Email sequences, LinkedIn and Meta ad audiences, AI call agent | Three-email sequence per contact; contacts pushed to HeyReach or Dripify |
| Outbound beyond the website | TAM Agent: audiences, buying committees, orchestration | None -- outbound is triggered by visits only |
| Autonomy model | Rep approval first; autonomous after ~100 calibrated decisions; agent studio | Decides from the ICP and behaviour on its own; email approval optional |
| Setup | Five steps: pixel, CRM, alerts, routing, agents; FDE and CSM services offered | One script tag, then under 30 minutes in the dashboard |
| Pricing | From $10,000 / $20,000 / $30,000 a year, 10,000 credits a month, sales-assisted; add-ons $10,000 a year | First 100 identified companies free; $249 / $499 / $1,199 a month capped at 250 / 500 / 1,500 companies; no overage |
| Status | Founded 2019; 223 paying HubSpot-integrated customers; 4.8 stars on 200+ G2 reviews (Warmly's figures) | Launched 2026; 21 customers, 15 of them YC companies; self-serve plans open |

## Where Warmly wins

**You run HubSpot and intend to keep running it.** Warmly's team wrote the HubSpot integration first, in 2023, and is now being hired to build the rest of it from inside. If HubSpot is your system of record for the next three years, the acquisition is a reason to pick Warmly, not a reason to avoid it.

**You need the person.** A named champion returning to pricing, a lead already in an Outreach sequence showing up on the site, a VP you want to greet by role on arrival. Warmly resolves the individual; Alphie resolves the company and infers the roles. For a motion built on known contacts, that's decisive.

**You have a RevOps or growth team that wants the controls.** Agent studio, routing rules, popups, personalised landing pages, ad audiences, a TAM agent for outbound, Forward Deployed Engineers to wire it all up. Warmly rewards the team that tunes it. If you have that team, you'll get more out of Warmly.

**You want a vendor with seven years and 200+ reviews behind it.** Warmly was founded in 2019 and has the G2 record to show for it. Alphie launched this year.

## Where Alphie wins

**Your CRM is not HubSpot, or not decided, or your own.** Attio, Salesforce, Airtable, a homegrown system, or a CRM you're about to migrate off. Alphie treats all of them the same, and changing one later costs you one dashboard setting.

**Coverage over names.** At about 60% of US visitors identified at the company level against Warmly's stated 15-30% at the person level, Alphie sees roughly twice as many of your qualified visitors and knows which company each one is from. For a B2B sale that is the thing you need to decide whether to engage.

**No second job.** Under 30 minutes of setup and no approval queue, no agent to train, no rules to maintain. Alphie's decisions come from your ICP and the visitor's behaviour, and they keep being made when nobody on your team is watching.

**Price of entry.** $249 a month for the on-site conversation, handoff and follow-up, with the first 100 companies free and no sales call, against $20,000 a year for the first Warmly plan with chat in it.

## Who should pick which

Pick Warmly if you're a HubSpot shop with a growth or RevOps team, your motion runs on known contacts, and you want one vendor for identification, on-site engagement and outbound list-building. The acquisition makes that bet safer, not riskier.

Pick Alphie if you're a B2B company with sales-assisted deals and real inbound traffic, your CRM is anything other than HubSpot (or might be next year), and you want the website to qualify and engage visitors without someone on your team running it.

## You don't have to switch

If you're a Warmly customer reading this because of the acquisition, the sensible move is not to rip anything out. Warmly works today, your contract is unchanged, and Max Greenwald has said so in writing.

The sensible move is to run Alphie next to it. Alphie's script tag doesn't conflict with Warmly's pixel; both identify the same visits independently. Keep whichever chat you prefer on the page, Warmly's or Alphie's, and run both identifications and both warm-outbound sequences in parallel. For a month you'll have two answers to the same question -- who was on the site, and which of them mattered -- and you can compare them against your own pipeline rather than against anyone's marketing page. Alphie adds no workload to your team while it runs: it doesn't ask you to configure anything after setup, and the first 100 identified companies cost nothing.

If Alphie turns out to find companies Warmly didn't, or to book conversations Warmly's chat missed, you have a second source of leads and a decision you can make on your own timeline, with the acquisition's roadmap in view. If it doesn't, you've spent 30 minutes. Either way you'll have your own numbers before Warmly's roadmap moves.

## What we can and can't claim yet

Alphie is young. We have 21 customers, most of them YC companies, and the target we set for the first cohort was a 30% lift in inbound conversion from the same traffic. That's a floor we're aiming at, not a result we've published. When we have numbers with names attached they'll go on this page. Until then, everything above is about mechanism: what each product does, where it's going, and what it costs.

Warmly has more features, more customers, more reviews and, soon, HubSpot behind it. What it won't have, by its own account, is independence from the CRM it's joining. If your CRM is HubSpot, that costs you nothing. If it isn't, that's the price.

*Sources for Warmly facts: [Warmly Is Joining HubSpot](https://www.warmly.ai/p/blog/warmly-is-joining-hubspot) (Max Greenwald, June 30, 2026), [Max Greenwald's LinkedIn post, via repost](https://linkedin.com/in/alixl) (223 HubSpot-integrated customers), [warmly.ai/p/pricing](https://www.warmly.ai/p/pricing), [Website Visitor Identification](https://www.warmly.ai/p/solutions/use-cases/website-visitor-identification) (identification rates, trust progression, setup steps), [Integrations](https://www.warmly.ai/p/product/intent-signals/integration). Acquisition coverage: [CMSWire](https://www.cmswire.com/digital-experience/hubspot-acquires-warmly-to-boost-ai-sales-agents/) (terms undisclosed). Alphie facts: [meetalphie.com/pricing](https://meetalphie.com/pricing), [API docs](https://meetalphie.com/api). Prices and figures as of October 8, 2026.*

#### Yura Riphyak

CEO of Alphie

Yura is building the future of intelligent GTM at Alphie. Previously, he co-founded YouTeam (YC W18, acquired by Toptal) and Hubbub.fm.

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