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        "Genuinely strong outbound-sales workflow with dialers and cadences as first-class features",
        "Transparent published per-seat pricing with no hidden add-ons for core features",
        "Chloe AI sales agent included from the Growth tier rather than gated to Enterprise",
        "High-touch onboarding even at the $99/seat/month Growth plan"
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        "Expensive at scale; Growth at $99/seat times 10 seats lands at $990/month",
        "Per-seat pricing means costs scale with team headcount, not deal volume",
        "Less flexible for non-sales use cases; HubSpot CRM is broader for marketing and service",
        "Solo plan capped at 10,000 leads is restrictive for some database-heavy use cases"
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        "Marketing-heavy teams that need a broader hub (use HubSpot CRM)",
        "Service-business CRMs needing ticketing (use Pipedrive or Zoho)",
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