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- Rob (AI host): You spot a wrong deal stage in the middle of a pipeline review, and the fix lives deep in settings. Dana (AI host): Breeze Assistant can now create pipelines, clone them, and change their stages from a chat. Rob (AI host): Stay for the plan check, because what Breeze can build still depends on your subscription. Narrator (AI voice): This is Sidekick's What Just Shipped, presented by Sidekick Strategies. Narrator (AI voice): Your hosts, Rob and Dana, are AI. Narrator (AI voice): The voices are synthetic, the research is real, and humans check every claim before it reaches you. Rob (AI host): Rob with you, alongside Dana, and we're both AI hosts. Rob (AI host): Today: managing pipelines with Breeze Assistant, from HubSpot's pipeline help article, updated in October. Dana (AI host): Fine by me: today I'm playing a hypothetical sales ops manager on Sales Hub Starter, about to launch a team in a new region. Rob (AI host): Good test case. Rob (AI host): Why it matters: stage probabilities drive the weighted amounts in board view, so one wrong stage skews what managers see. Dana (AI host): So what can Breeze actually do with pipelines? Rob (AI host): HubSpot's article says you can use Breeze Assistant to create an object pipeline, clone an existing one, and add, update, or remove pipeline stages. Dana (AI host): And where do I open the assistant? Rob (AI host): In the top navigation bar, click Breeze Assistant, then type your request. Rob (AI host): First, Give users access to Breeze Assistant has to be turned on in your AI settings. Dana (AI host): And who's allowed to make pipeline changes? Rob (AI host): Creating and editing pipelines or stages needs Edit property settings permissions. Rob (AI host): HubSpot also says Breeze Assistant actions depend on your user permissions. Dana (AI host): So the assistant is not a way around permissions. Rob (AI host): Right. Now what it won't touch. Rob (AI host): Breeze Assistant cannot create or update pipeline rules, object tags, or automations. Dana (AI host): Anything else off the table? Rob (AI host): It also cannot change contact or company lifecycle stages. Dana (AI host): Sensible fence. Rob (AI host): So, your plan question. Dana (AI host): I'm on Starter. Can I create a new pipeline? Rob (AI host): Yes. Creating a custom pipeline needs Starter, Professional, or Enterprise. Free tools get zero custom pipelines. Dana (AI host): And can I clone our main pipeline for the new region? Rob (AI host): Not on Starter. HubSpot says cloning a pipeline needs Professional or Enterprise. Dana (AI host): Huh. So on Starter, I build it from scratch. Rob (AI host): That's the path. Dana (AI host): What about leads, or custom objects? Rob (AI host): Lead pipelines need Professional or Enterprise. Custom object pipelines need Enterprise. Dana (AI host): How many pipelines does Starter allow? Rob (AI host): Starter accounts get fifteen custom pipelines, shared across all objects, and the default pipeline for each object does not count toward that. Dana (AI host): Walk me through a clone on Professional, then. What gets copied? Rob (AI host): In settings, you choose which features to clone: conditional stage properties, pipeline rules, automations, deal tags, and pipeline access. Dana (AI host): Rules and automations copy over in a settings clone? Rob (AI host): When you select them, yes. Rob (AI host): That's the manual path: the settings icon, then Data Management, then Objects, then the Pipelines tab, then Clone from existing. Dana (AI host): What are conditional stage properties, in plain terms? Rob (AI host): They show certain properties when someone manually creates a record in a stage, or moves one there. Rob (AI host): Mark a property Required, and the record cannot be saved until it has a value. Dana (AI host): Could a lead score be one of them? Rob (AI host): No. Read-only values, like score or calculation properties, cannot be used as stage properties. Dana (AI host): Now stages. What do I set when I add one? Rob (AI host): A stage name. For deals, a deal probability, and you can enter a custom value. Rob (AI host): For other objects, you mark the stage Open or Closed. Dana (AI host): Any must-have stages? Rob (AI host): For deals, HubSpot says to include stages for both Won and Lost under Deal probability, so sales reports and analytics process deals correctly. Dana (AI host): And how is the weighted amount figured? Rob (AI host): Board view multiplies the total amount in each stage by that stage's probability. Dana (AI host): Can I color-code stages? Rob (AI host): Yes. There's a Color column, and you can set a color for each stage. Dana (AI host): What if I remove a stage that still has deals in it? Rob (AI host): HubSpot won't let you delete a stage while references remain, like records in that stage or conditional properties in use. Rob (AI host): The Used in column shows what to clear first. George B. Thomas (AI voice clone): Hey, it's George B. Thomas from Sidekick Strategies. George B. Thomas (AI voice clone): Full honesty, this is my AI voice clone, made with my permission. George B. Thomas (AI voice clone): A pipeline is only as good as the agreement behind each stage. George B. Thomas (AI voice clone): Sidekick's Sales Hub implementation interviews your reps and managers, then configures deal stages, required fields, and automation rules around how your team actually sells. George B. Thomas (AI voice clone): Your process, not a template. Ask about Sales Hub Implementation at Sidekick Strategies dot com. Dana (AI host): Let's talk deleting. What happens if I remove a whole pipeline? Rob (AI host): You cannot delete a pipeline that contains records or is used in other HubSpot tools or integrations. Rob (AI host): Move or delete the records and remove those references first. Dana (AI host): Is any pipeline fully locked? Rob (AI host): If you connect an e-commerce integration, HubSpot adds a deal pipeline that you cannot modify. Dana (AI host): And tickets? Rob (AI host): Ticket stages are called statuses by default, but HubSpot says they're the same as other object stages. Dana (AI host): Back to my new region. Do I even need a second pipeline? Rob (AI host): HubSpot recommends separate pipelines only when your processes have unique stages. Rob (AI host): If every team sells with the same stages, use one pipeline and Team only permissions instead. Dana (AI host): And if I want a pipeline only one team can see? Rob (AI host): Restricting a pipeline by team needs Professional or Enterprise. Dana (AI host): Skeptic question. Our research says this works on all hubs and tiers, including Free. Rob (AI host): The assistant is broadly available, but the pipeline features keep their own subscription gates, like Professional for cloning. Dana (AI host): Our research also says Breeze shows you the change before saving it. Rob (AI host): That's what we couldn't confirm. HubSpot's pipeline article just points to Breeze Assistant for these tasks. Rob (AI host): It does not describe a preview step, or whether a Breeze clone copies rules and automations. Dana (AI host): So after any Breeze change, I check the pipeline in settings. Rob (AI host): Good habit for every change. Dana (AI host): My rollout, as that sales ops manager. First: confirm I have Edit property settings permissions. Rob (AI host): Second: ask Breeze to create the new region's pipeline from scratch, since cloning needs Professional. Dana (AI host): Third: add Won and Lost stages, then set each deal probability. Rob (AI host): Fourth: review the pipeline in settings, and set any rules and automations by hand. Dana (AI host): Sales ops verdict: worth using this week for stage cleanup, as long as someone checks the pipeline settings afterward. Rob (AI host): Chat for structure, settings for the logic. Dana (AI host): HubSpot's articles and our research are linked in the show notes, with more updates at Sidekick Strategies dot com. Rob (AI host): Appreciate you staying for the stage talk. Dana (AI host): Add Won and Lost first. Narrator (AI voice): Sidekick's What Just Shipped is presented by Sidekick Strategies, with AI hosts Rob and Dana and AI-generated music. Narrator (AI voice): We're independent, and not affiliated with HubSpot. Find our research at Sidekick Strategies dot com.