'CRMs probably die a slow death': Netwealth CEO - Professional Planner

The CRM you're fighting with today might not even exist in its current form five years from now.

Netwealth CEO Matt Heine said recently that CRMs will "probably die a slow death" as AI and integrated platforms eat into the functions that traditional CRM software was built to handle. He's not alone in thinking it. The category is getting squeezed from every direction — AI tools that automate relationship tracking, vertical platforms that bundle CRM features into industry-specific workflows, and clients who expect you to already know everything about them before they pick up the phone.

Here's what that means if you're the ops or marketing leader who just survived another painful CRM rollout: the window to build something that actually fits your business is narrowing. Betting on a big-name platform's roadmap right now is a real risk. Those vendors are managing category survival, not your workflow problems.

You don't need to predict where the market lands. You need a system that works the way your team actually works today — one you can adjust yourself when things change next quarter, not six months from now after a consultant finishes their engagement.

The businesses that get ahead of this won't be the ones who picked the right vendor. They'll be the ones who stopped waiting on vendors entirely.

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Netwealth chief executive Matt Heine believes customer relationship management (CRM) software will “die a slow death” as their place in the advice ...