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Giving a Single Customer View Across Ten Systems for a $2B Community Bank

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Giving a Single Customer View Across Ten Systems for a $2B Community Bank

Client Overview

Pinnacle Bank is a state-chartered community bank founded in 1934, serving sixteen counties across northeast Georgia from its headquarters in Elberton. The bank runs retail branches, commercial lending, treasury management, mortgage, marketing, finance, and compliance teams.

Its bankers depend on accurate customer data to open accounts, manage relationships, route referrals, and resolve disputes across a growing footprint of roughly $2 billion in assets and 25 to 28 branches.

Industry: Financial Services (Community Banking)

Solution Delivered: HubSpot Enterprise CRM Migration, Multi-System Integration & Service Hub Implementation

Products Used: CRM, Marketing Hub, Sales Hub, Service Hub, Salesforce/nCino Integration, SFTP Data Pipeline, Postalytics, HubDB

 

~300 Seats at Go-Live

Provisioned across 28 branches at launch, with the platform architected to scale to 600+ users after the merger.

10+ Systems Unified

Core banking, lending, treasury, and marketing data consolidated into a single 360-degree customer view.

~5-Month Delivery

Discovery through go-live, completed before the legacy CRM contract expired on April 30, 2026.

Manual Reporting Replaced

SQL queries and 60-plus monthly PDF scorecards replaced with live, drill-down dashboards.

The Challenge

By late 2025, Pinnacle Bank ran its customer relationships on Connections, a legacy CRM fed by a nightly flat-file dump from the Fiserv Precision core. Data arrived a day late, no API existed, and customer information lived across ten or more disconnected systems. Two deadlines forced the decision. The Connections contract ended April 30, 2026, and a merger was scheduled for June 2026. The bank needed a modern platform that could carry it through both.

Bankers Toggled Between Multiple Systems to Answer One Customer Question

A teller or lender needing a full picture had to check Precision for accounts, nCino for loans, MortgageBot for mortgages, and Connections for activity. No screen showed the whole relationship. Service slowed, and cross-sell opportunities went unseen at the counter.

Customer Data Scattered Across Ten Systems With No Single Owner

Precision held accounts, nCino held lending, BPM held deposits, Weiland held treasury fees, and Connections held referrals. Each system owned a fragment. No platform showed a customer's deposits, loans, treasury services, and disputes together, so relationship-level decisions relied on memory and manual lookups.

Treasury Deals and Disputes Ran on Email and Spreadsheets

Treasury sales tracked pipeline in Excel, then emailed Word install forms to support. Fraud and ACH disputes moved on signed paper forms emailed to operations. Service recovery was logged as a generic "call." Cycle times stretched and compliance documentation sat outside any system of record.

Leaders Wrote SQL Queries to See a Deposit Balance Change

Reporting meant SQL queries against Connections, banker dashboards, scorecards, and manual Excel reconciliation. Alerts were largely absent. A regional president could not quickly see which relationship drove a six-figure deposit swing, so outreach to at-risk balances was reactive.

A Batch-Driven CRM That Could Not Carry the Bank's Growth

Connections relied on overnight batch feeds with no real-time capability and rigid workflows. The bank was growing toward 28 branches and preparing to roughly double its user base through the merger. The existing system could not be configured for that scale or trusted at it.

Low Trust in the CRM Meant Bankers Double-Checked Everything

The interface was non-intuitive, duplicate records were common, and referrals expired and disappeared after 90 days. Hybrid teller-bankers lost incentive credit because rigid roles forced marketing to adjust points by hand each month. Adoption stayed low and the data behind incentives was not trusted.

Key Deliverables

HubSpot Enterprise Migration

Replaced Connections with HubSpot Enterprise CRM, Marketing, Sales, and Service Hubs, provisioning roughly 300 seats across 28 branches.

Core Banking Integration

A nightly SFTP feed of 13 Fiserv Precision extract files into HubSpot, mapping customers, accounts, balances, products, and officer codes.

Custom Banking Data Model

Three custom objects (Products & Services, Referrals & Recommendations, Households) modeling banking relationships the legacy CRM could not.

nCino Lending Sync

A bidirectional Salesforce integration surfacing live loan pipeline stages on the banker's customer record, with a manual push to nCino at application.

Service Hub Ticketing

Service Recovery, Disputes, and Treasury Management implementation pipelines, replacing TrackIt, paper forms, and email chains.

Executive Dashboards

Deposit variance, top-20, maturing CD, onboarding, and referral dashboards with region-to-customer drill-down, replacing SQL and Excel.

The Solution

Mole Street designed HubSpot as the bank's front-office engagement layer, aggregating data from the core and lending systems into one platform. The work focused on four areas: a unified customer view, automated data integration, modernized ticketing, and self-serve reporting. Each phase either widened the data flowing into HubSpot or removed a manual process the bank had carried for years.

Built a 360-Degree Customer View for Every Banker on Day One

A single contact and company record now shows a customer's products, loans, referrals, and open service tickets. A card surfaces the live nCino loan stage without leaving HubSpot. Bankers stopped toggling between systems to understand a relationship.

Connected Fiserv Precision to HubSpot Through a Nightly SFTP Pipeline

Thirteen Precision extract files push into HubSpot each night near 3:00 AM, mapped to contacts, companies, and the Products & Services object. The core remains the system of record, and the one-way flow protects it from write-back errors while keeping HubSpot current.

Replaced Treasury and Dispute Spreadsheets With Connected Service Pipelines

Treasury sales now run a HubSpot pipeline that triggers an installation ticket the moment the install form is submitted. Disputes and service recovery moved into Service Hub pipelines with required fields, routing, and auto-calculated Reg E deadlines. Compliance reporting no longer depends on manual scrubbing.

Replaced SQL Reporting With Drill-Down Executive Dashboards

Leaders now open dashboards that flag deposit and loan swings against set dollar thresholds and drill from region to market to branch to banker to customer. Top-20 lists, maturing CDs, and onboarding queues update from the nightly feed. Writing SQL to find a balance change ended.

Automated Compliant Marketing With Postalytics and Dynamic Lender Flyers

Beyond the core brief, the platform automated the Day 1 welcome letter through Postalytics, removing the manual daily approval ritual. A HubDB database of lender details populates pre-approved flyer templates, so mortgage lenders send personalized, compliant emails without editing locked content.

Automated the Referral Scorecard to Restore Trust in Incentive Data

The Referrals and Recommendations object distinguishes what an employee can open from what they must hand off, sets expiration logic automatically, and notifies the assignee. Role-based teams and partitioning protect sensitive data while keeping records open across branches. Incentive credit now ties to opened accounts instead of month-end manual fixes.

Before and After Mole Street

Customer View

Before

Siloed across ten-plus systems

After

One 360-degree record in HubSpot

Impact

Single source of truth

CRM Platform

Before

Distrusted legacy CRM

After

HubSpot Enterprise across 28 branches

Impact

Live before the contract deadline

Reporting

Before

SQL queries and manual Excel

After

Live drill-down dashboards

Impact

Self-serve visibility

Incentive Tracking

Before

Manual month-end adjustments

After

Automated referral scoring

Impact

Trusted incentive data

Treasury & Disputes

Before

Spreadsheets and paper forms

After

Connected Service Hub pipelines

Impact

Trackable and auditable

Merger Readiness

Before

A CRM that could not scale

After

Absorbed the incoming bank's data

Impact

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