This article was originally published in May 2026 Will there ever be a future where CRMs are replaced by AI? That’s the growing narrative circulating GTM teams right now. That one day, CRMs will eventually disappear altogether, and teams will simply interact with AI instead. Exactly what that looks like is still taking shape. But we can imagine it looking a little like this: teams ask AI questions about their pipeline and customers, trigger workflows through agents, and let t