Pax8, the global AI and cloud Marketplace for small and medium-sized businesses, today released The Managed Intelligence Guide: Navigating the Pax8 Ecosystem, designed to help partners turn agentic AI into measurable business results for SMB customers. Introduced at Beyond EMEA, Guide provides easy navigation to actionable steps for partners to identify AI solutions for each customers unique needs.
AI-related demand growing nearly five times faster than traditional managed services, yet most companies still can't move beyond proof of concept without expert guidance. Confidence among managed service providers in delivering AI has fallen from 90% to roughly 50% over past year. Managed Intelligence Guide practical tool built specifically for partners to help them identify opportunities, sell outcomes, and source and build AI agents for customers, supporting evolution to becoming Managed Intelligence Providers (MIPs).
According to Q3 SMB AI Pulse Report, 71% of SMBs currently using AI, and 67% of them have built AI solutions, which means end-customers aren't just buying off-the-shelf products, but are developing own. Managed Intelligence Guide helps partners map Managed Intelligence engagements to right solution from breadth of offerings in Pax8 Marketplace. Practical resource prepares partners to have effective AI conversations with customers and deliver measurable outcomes.
Foundation of Guide built on Pax8's research, drawing on insights from The Agentic Workforce Economy report and From Customer Zero to Customer One vendor playbook. Structured around MIP Program and organized into six plays: Discover surface hidden inefficiency and opportunity, Sell price and position AI-driven outcomes, Buy curate proven pre-built agents and workflows, Build package proprietary agents and IP for differentiation, Implement deploy integrate and drive real adoption, Manage optimize govern and expand what is already in production.
Each play presented through three business lenses: Grow Your Business, Increase Your Efficiency, Manage Your Risk. Partners can match customer's specific situation to right mix of Marketplace offerings to easily solve problems, achieve business goals, and expand technical disciplines.
Managed Intelligence Guide will be available as PDF at launch and Pax8 plans to incorporate it into Marketplace through dedicated MCP Model Context Protocol server with chat interface. This will allow users to query guide directly and receive up-to-date responses as suite of offerings evolves. With solutions at fingertips, partners can operationalize Managed Intelligence and quickly deliver value.
About Pax8
Pax8 is global AI and cloud Marketplace for small and medium-sized businesses. Pax8 connects service providers and technology companies on unified platform to discover, buy, sell, deploy and manage technology solutions for SMBs. More than 47,000 IT partners and 800,000 SMBs rely on Pax8 for expertise, automation and real-time insights to stay productive, protected and prepared for AI economy.
