The Hardware Bet You Didn’t Know You Made: AI’s Memory Crunch and the Fixed-Fee TrapNot the TokensHere’s a set of numbers that look like ordinary business-page noise — until you... By: Dave Sobel/June 24, 2026/Artificial Intelligence, Business Strategy, Product & Company Updates
AI-Powered Is the Discount Tier: How the Trust Backlash Becomes an MSP Pricing EdgeThe Turn-OffHere’s something showing up across a string of unrelated surveys, all pointing the same direction.... By: Dave Sobel/June 23, 2026/Artificial Intelligence, Business Strategy, Community Sentiment
Memory Inflation: Why All-Inclusive MSP Hardware Pricing Is No Longer SustainableA structural repricing of memory and silicon components is forcing a shift in the economics of... By: Dave Sobel/June 22, 2026/
Operational Maturity vs. Service Uniformity: Insights from Joshua Liberman’s TransitionVendor channel consolidation, specifically through peer and family-owned acquisitions, is driving a fundamental shift in the... By: Dave Sobel/June 22, 2026/Artificial Intelligence, Business Strategy, Community Sentiment, Guest Interviews, Security
AI Agents Outnumber IT Admins: Credential Sprawl and Network Risks with Chris BoehmThe episode highlights a structural shift in IT and security governance driven by the proliferation of... By: Dave Sobel/June 19, 2026/Artificial Intelligence, Business Strategy, Guest Interviews, Security
Operational Maturity vs. Service Uniformity: Insights from Joshua Liberman’s TransitionVendor channel consolidation, specifically through peer and family-owned acquisitions, is driving a fundamental shift in the... By: Dave Sobel/June 18, 2026/
MSPs Face New Risk: Customer Loyalty Drops When AI Replaces Human InteractionThe episode reveals a structural shift where “AI powered” has moved from a selling point to... By: Dave Sobel/June 18, 2026/
AI Adoption Widens Operational Divide: Peter Kujawa on Service Leadership Index DataThe episode centers on persistent margin pressure and operational discipline as the dominant structural mechanisms in... By: Dave Sobel/June 18, 2026/Artificial Intelligence, Business Strategy, Live Shows
OpenAI Enters the Channel, NinjaOne Hits $12.3B, and Why MSPs Must Sell Judgment Not ModelsBigger Platforms, Unwatched AITwo sets of numbers moved across the channel, and on the surface they... By: Dave Sobel/June 17, 2026/Artificial Intelligence, Product & Company Updates, Security
The Real AI Risk for MSPs: Who Verifies the Output When Clients Don’t Ask?The core structural shift highlighted in this episode is the commoditization of AI model platforms and... By: Dave Sobel/June 16, 2026/
The Model You Didn’t Choose: How Vendor Frameworks Buried an Unpriced Continuity Risk in Your StackSwitched OffHere’s a pairing that almost nobody put side by side. Start with Anthropic. The company... By: Dave Sobel/June 16, 2026/Artificial Intelligence, Business Strategy, Community Sentiment, Product & Company Updates, Regulation
Government AI Shutdown Exposes Hidden Vendor Dependencies for MSPsA pronounced infrastructure dependence on third-party AI models has emerged across the MSP ecosystem, largely due... By: Dave Sobel/June 15, 2026/
Atera’s AI Shift: Gil Pekelman on Accountability and Risk in Autonomous IT for MSPsThe episode highlights a structural shift from automation that suggests actions to automation that executes actions... By: Dave Sobel/June 15, 2026/Artificial Intelligence, Business Strategy, Community Sentiment, Guest Interviews
The AI Cost Squeeze Rolls Downhill — And MSPs Who Out-Buy Instead of Out-Position Will LoseManufactured UrgencyTwo things were moving across the channel this week, and at first they look like... By: Dave Sobel/June 12, 2026/Artificial Intelligence, Business Strategy, Product & Company Updates, Regulation
Atera’s AI Shift: Gil Pekelman on Accountability and Risk in Autonomous IT for MSPsThe episode highlights a structural shift from automation that suggests actions to automation that executes actions... By: Dave Sobel/June 11, 2026/
New AI Governance Tools Are Table Stakes—Positioning, Not Stack, Drives MSP GrowthVendors supplying AI-driven technologies are experiencing sustained margin pressure from high operational costs and underwhelming business-level... By: Dave Sobel/June 11, 2026/
Abraham Garver: Why Private Equity Rollups Push Smaller MSPs Into New Market NichesVendor channel consolidation continues to restructure the MSP landscape, with private equity-backed rollups driving both market... By: Dave Sobel/June 11, 2026/Live Shows
MSPs Face a Structural Choice: Author AI Methodology or Deliver Someone Else’sChannel AI ShiftThe channel stack moved — at the distribution layer, at the platform layer, and... By: Dave Sobel/June 10, 2026/Artificial Intelligence, Business Strategy, Product & Company Updates
Pressure to Adopt AI Forces MSPs to Absorb Risks Designed by Platform VendorsPlatform vendors are transferring liability and delivery responsibility for AI services onto MSPs by building structured... By: Dave Sobel/June 9, 2026/
ConnectWise Scraps Asio as AI Billing Chaos, Agent Sprawl, and a $1B Roll-Up Signal the Same Governance Crisis for MSPsConnectWise RebuildsStart with ConnectWise. The company announced that it is dismantling Asio — the platform it... By: Dave Sobel/June 9, 2026/Artificial Intelligence, Business Strategy, Product & Company Updates