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HubSpot Has the OAuth, but Not the Onboarding

calendar_today August 25, 2026 domain programmableweb

I keep coming back to the same wall, and HubSpot is where I hit it again. Every CRM, every gateway, every platform that has spent the last two years telling me it is “all in on AI” still makes me open a browser, log into a dashboard, click through a wizard, and hand-copy a credential before I am allowed to make a single API call. We are building agents that are supposed to provision their own tools, and the very first step, getting an application and a set of credentials, is the one step you cannot automate.

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