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First, the partner documents existing processes: how leads come in, how they get routed, what happens at each deal stage, what reports leadership reviews. Second, they identify gaps and inefficiencies, such as manual data entry, slow lead follow-up, or disconnected tools. Third, they define success metrics, for example, lead conversion rate, pipeline velocity, or time to first response. Fourth, they design the HubSpot configuration to close those gaps and move those metrics, choosing which custom properties, automations, pipelines, and integrations to build.[ Lean Labs structures this as a three-phase model](https://www.leanlabs.com/solutions/hubspot-projects): discovery, plan and build, then launch and support. 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