Claude 101:
A Practical AI Guide for MSP Teams
Help your team move beyond casual AI experimentation and start using Claude more effectively across everyday work.
Learn how to select the right model, securely reference information from Microsoft 365, and use CoWork to search, organize, and create files for document-heavy workflows.
Build reusable Skills that turn refined prompts into repeatable processes your entire team can follow, helping standardize common tasks and reduce variation in output.
Understand how prompting, tokens, context limits, and attached files affect Claude’s performance, with practical fixes for forgetfulness, missed details, and inconsistent formatting.
Stop Wondering Where to Start With AI. Find Your First Practical Project.
This practical worksheet helps you identify a useful, manageable AI opportunity, define the business outcome you want, evaluate the value and risk, and build a small experiment you can measure before going bigger.
Look beyond the AI hype and uncover the repetitive, frustrating, or time-consuming work inside your business where AI could actually make a difference.
Evaluate potential projects based on business value, frequency, repeatability, available information, human oversight, measurability, and risk so you can focus on an idea that matters without biting off too much.
Define what AI should and shouldn’t do, decide how you’ll measure success, and create a small pilot that gives you something concrete to learn from before you expand.
The 9 Questions Every MSP Should Ask Before Selling AI
A practical worksheet for MSPs who want to lead better AI conversations with clients. Use these nine questions to uncover shadow AI, assess risk and readiness, and identify where AI can create measurable business impact.
Find out which tools employees are using, where sensitive data may be exposed, and how dependent the team already is on AI.
Guide clients through accountability, data sensitivity, risk tolerance, and the hidden cost of trusting AI without governance.
Identify where AI can reduce cost, add capacity, improve margins, or accelerate a workflow that actually changes how the business runs.
Help Clients Turn AI Curiosity Into Real Business Outcomes.
Your clients are already using AI, but they may not be involving you in the conversation. This worksheet helps MSPs move beyond tool talk and start better AI conversations around business friction, operational efficiency, governance, client experience, and measurable outcomes.
Use practical prompts to uncover where clients are losing time, repeating work, struggling with visibility, or relying too much on manual processes.
Get structured questions for sales calls, QBRs, leadership conversations, governance discussions, and internal MSP alignment.
Prioritize use cases by time savings, revenue impact, risk reduction, employee impact, and ease of implementation so AI becomes a practical business conversation, not just another shiny tool.
Lead Smarter AI Conversations with Your Clients.
A practical worksheet that helps MSPs uncover hidden AI usage, assess risk, and turn AI discussions into structured next-step services.
Use this worksheet to identify where AI is being used across departments, including shadow usage leadership may not see.
Guide clients through the critical questions around AI policies, sensitive data, and acceptable use so you can surface gaps before they become security or compliance issues.
Walk away from the conversation with clear next steps, from AI discovery workshops to policy creation, training, and controlled pilot implementations.
AI Is Already Inside Your Customers’ Businesses. Lead It With Intention.
Download this guide and equip your MSP leadership team to guide clients through AI adoption safely, strategically, and with measurable business impact.
Learn how to move client conversations beyond “Is AI risky?” to “How do we govern and leverage it responsibly?”
Identify unmanaged AI usage, permission gaps, and data risks before they turn into compliance, security, or reputation problems.
Follow a clear 4-step model to secure identity, clean data, establish guardrails, and pilot high-value AI use cases with measurable ROI.
Turn Advisory Conversations Into a Real, Billable MSP Service
A practical worksheet that helps MSPs standardize strategic advisory, segment clients correctly, and price vCIO-level services without overcomplicating delivery.
This worksheet shows you how to turn roadmap, risk, and business alignment conversations into a repeatable service clients understand and pay for.
Segment your clients, choose the right advisory model per tier, and apply clear pricing paths so you’re no longer giving away strategy to the loudest accounts.
Use a standardized meeting framework, risk snapshot, and delivery pillars so advisory doesn’t depend on one person and scales across your entire client base.
Lock In Your Ideal Customer Profile and Win More of the Right Deals
This worksheet helps MSP leaders define, validate, and operationalize their Ideal Customer Profile (ICP) — so every offer, process, and pitch aligns with clients that truly fit your delivery model.
Use the built-in ICP Canvas to document firmographics, tech stacks, compliance regimes, and buying roles. Get clarity on who your “perfect fit” customers are.
Identify clients, conditions, and behaviors that break profitability or outcomes. Learn when to say “No” — and when a conditional “Yes” makes sense.
Guided prompts and scorecard templates help you translate pain points into measurable business results, craft outcome-based offers, and track success with exec-level KPIs.
Profit and Fit—Simplified for MSPs
Download the free Client Fit & Profit Snapshot worksheet to instantly see which clients are helping (or hurting) your margins.
Evaluate clients using simple P (Profit) and F (Fit) scores based on MRR, hours, endpoints, and alignment with your stack.
Clearly identify next steps for each client: Expand, Maintain, Reprice & Standardize, or Offboard/Partner.
Follow the built-in scoring guide for margin, load, rate, payment reliability, and standardization willingness.
Your Playbook for Smarter MSP Decisions
Download the free Above The Stack Worksheet to evaluate your services, sharpen your ICP, and uncover growth opportunities in minutes.
Kill, Keep, Deepen, or Partner-Out services to free up margin and focus on what drives results.
Clarify your ideal customer profile, from industry and company size to top pains and desired outcomes.
Take the guesswork out of where to focus your MSP’s time, talent, and resources.

