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HubSpot creates duplicate records that require manual cleanup

HubSpot occasionally generates duplicate contact or company records, requiring users to manually identify and merge them. While the deduplication workflow exists, the fact that duplicates appear at all introduces data quality risk and ongoing maintenance overhead.

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