Thrive, a global technology outsourcing provider specializing in AI, cybersecurity, cloud, and IT managed services, has expanded its Managed AI Services portfolio with the introduction of the Thrive Managed AI Workspace and a structured AI Adoption Model. The new offerings provide organizations—particularly in the mid-market—with secure, governed access to over 50 major AI models in a single platform, helping address common adoption challenges such as shadow AI, data exposure, and inconsistent outcomes.
While AI innovation accelerates, many mid-market organizations face barriers moving beyond experimentation. Informal pilots often lead to shadow AI, security risks, and limited business value due to the absence of governance and structured scaling paths.
Thrive’s Managed AI Services meet organizations at their current maturity level, prioritizing guardrails, quick value demonstration, and phased expansion into production workflows.
“AI isn’t a flip-the-switch initiative,” said Mike Gray, CTO of Thrive. “The market is full of tools that assume adoption will ‘just happen’ once a license is assigned. Thrive’s Managed AI Services meet customers where they are, setting guardrails first, proving value quickly, and scaling into production-grade workflows. Affective AI adoption isn’t a sprint, but rather a crawl, walk, run.”
The Managed AI Workspace delivers centralized, secure access to 58 leading AI models, enabling teams to compare and select the best-fit models for specific workflows without managing multiple vendors or ecosystems.
Key benefits include:
This platform can be deployed standalone or integrated with Thrive’s Managed Microsoft 365 Copilot offering, which supports controlled Copilot rollout, permissions hygiene, and embedded operational support directly in Microsoft applications.
Thrive’s AI Adoption Model provides a practical framework tailored to mid-market needs, combining advisory services, governance setup, user training, and managed delivery.
The phased crawl-walk-run approach starts with low-risk, controlled use cases to build trust and demonstrate value. As confidence grows, AI expands into daily workflows for productivity and efficiency gains. Finally, organizations scale with standardized processes, automation, and measurable ROI.
“As users gain confidence, AI expands into everyday workflows where teams begin realizing productivity gains and operational efficiencies. With that foundation in place, organizations can then scale AI across the business with standardized processes and automation, creating a clear path from experimentation to sustainable adoption and measurable ROI. We believe this is the best path forward to becoming an AI-first organization,” said Bill McLaughlin, CEO at Thrive.
By integrating secure model access with a proven adoption methodology, Thrive helps transform AI from isolated experiments into a sustainable, strategic business capability.
About Thrive
Thrive is a NextGen 3.0 global technology outsourcing provider that empowers small and mid-market organizations to transform their technology into a strategic advantage. Offering a breadth of services from AI and cybersecurity to cloud, compliance, and traditional MSP/MSSP solutions, Thrive’s team of seasoned experts develop strategies that standardize, scale, and automate technology to achieve outsized ROI. From advisory services to a 24×7×365 SOC and NOC, Thrive provides end-to-end IT and cybersecurity management so clients can focus on innovation and growth. With Thrive, your business is always supported and always secure.
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