Used-vehicle marketplace · live pipeline rebuild
From 16 stages of noise to 6 levels of intent.
5,000+
records migrated, zero lost
The problem
A 16-stage HubSpot pipeline modeled every activity a buyer might do — a form, an email, a viewing. It felt thorough. In practice it was noise, and it never told sales who was actually ready to buy.
What we did
We rebuilt the pipeline around interest level instead of activity — six clear stages a record moves up and down, the way buying actually works. It went in as a new pipeline with the old one preserved for rollback, and a guard-railed, dry-run-first migration moved every record by a verified 16-to-6 map — old pipeline drained to zero, counts checked after.
What it proves
Just over 5,000 contacts moved onto the new model with zero lost, and the board finally answered the one question it never could — who's about to buy but hasn't raised their hand?