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Creatio’s AI CRM: Who Gets to Build the Next Agent?

Creatio’s AI CRM: Who Gets to Build the Next Agent?

by | Aug 4, 2026 | Blog, Sponsored |

Every AI CRM vendor selling into 2026 has an AI agent story by now. The differentiator is no longer whether agents exist, but who is allowed to build the next one, how long that takes, and what happens to the bill once it works. For decades, CRM has promised growth and mostly delivered data entry, decaying from a system of action into a system of record. The agentic shift changes that, and with it the questions buyers should ask. Let’s put Creatio’s AI CRM to those questions, following a deal from lead to order to see how much orchestration ships out of the box and how much a revenue team must assemble. The findings are published in full in my report, AI CRM for Revenue Growth: Inside Creatio’s AI-Native No-Code Platform. The company behind the platform Creatio is a privately held, AI CRM and no-code workflow automation company headquartered in Boston, founded in 2014 by Katherine Kostereva, who remains CEO. It ran as bpm’online until a 2019 rebranding, bootstrapped until its first institutional round in 2021. A $200 million round led by Sapphire Ventures in June 2024 lifted its valuation to $1.2 billion; total funding raised now stands at roughly $268 million, and it reported around 50 percent year-over-year revenue growth at the time. Creatio employs around 1,000 people and sells through more than 500 implementation partners worldwide. The company’s partner program has held a 5-star rating in CRN’s Partner Program Guide for eight consecutive years. Customers span more than 100 countries, among them AMD, Colgate-Palmolive, and MetLife, with millions of workflows launched daily. One platform, two studios The...