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Managed service providers

You already own the client relationship. Add the product.

Managed service providers spend years earning trust with a client base and then hand the software revenue to someone else. The partner program lets you deploy on your own hardware, resell the platform under your own commercial terms, and keep earning on the builders you introduce for as long as they stay with you.

The situation

What usually brings people here

The MSP business has a ceiling built into it: you sell hours and hardware, and the recurring software revenue in your clients' stack flows past you to vendors your client has never met. Meanwhile you are the one who gets called when it breaks.

What the partner program changes

You become the route to market. Builders come onto the platform through you, and attribution follows them for as long as they remain under your account. Where a client requires the runtime to sit on hardware they or you control, that is a supported deployment rather than an exception.

What changes

The parts that matter for this case

Deploy on your own hardware

A supported path for clients whose requirements do not allow a shared hosted runtime.

Lifetime attribution

You continue to earn on a builder for as long as they remain under your account, rather than on a first-year bounty.

Signed, pull-based updates

Appliance updates are signed and pulled, with health-gated swaps, so a fleet stays current without anyone hand-patching machines.

Fleet connectivity

Managed connectivity across deployed appliances, so operating many client sites does not mean operating many bespoke networks.

How it works in practice

Day to day

Sell what you already support

Your clients already trust you with their infrastructure. This adds the application layer to what you can offer.

No product development

The platform is the product. Your contribution is the relationship, the deployment, and the support you already provide.

Bring your own margin

You set terms with your clients. The platform's cut is defined and predictable.

Documented operations

Deployment, update mechanics, and the program's commercial structure are all published rather than negotiated blind.

Common questions

Questions about this

Can we run it entirely on our own hardware?

That is what the partner appliance program is for. Deployment and update mechanics are documented.

How does attribution work?

A builder you bring across remains attributed to you for as long as they stay under your account.

What support do we provide versus what do you provide?

The division is defined in the partner program documentation, which is public and readable before you commit.

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