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Free practical resources for everyone who works at an MSP: guides, templates and tools for innovative MSPs.

Complete field guides for MSP operations, AI, automation, cybersecurity and client relationships.

Seven paths through the same working library. Choose the job you need to do.

A working discipline for MSP automation: remove, standardize, automate, then consider the people and coverage that remain.

Find guides, templates and tools by the work they cover.

Free editable working sheets, printable versions and CSV registers.

Three free resources: QBR Kit, the full Client Profitability Review workbook and the Capacity Decision Lab validation sample.

17 curated MSP resources: communities, peer groups, practitioner learning, vendor docs, frameworks and tools. Notes and limits included.

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Definitions for capacity, automation savings, effective hourly rate, fictional examples and evidence labels. Honest limits.

Prepare a business review around decisions, evidence and follow-through, with a usable agenda and action record.

Keep urgent work, blocked tickets and recurring service problems visible without spending all day in the queue.

Build a small, consistent time-entry habit that supports client and capacity reviews without turning entries into a scoreboard.

Turn post-go-live findings into owned fixes, standards exceptions and an agreed client roadmap.

Write testable standards with evidence, exceptions and support instructions, rather than a list of preferred products.

Separate workload, availability, timing and skill coverage before treating aggregate hours as a hiring verdict.

Count distinct work, active human effort, exceptions and maintenance, then separate existing savings from a proposed scenario.

Reconcile revenue, labour and assigned costs before comparing effective hourly rates and assigned gross margin.

Test the repeatable work before opening a requisition, without confusing saved effort with judgment, coverage or a smaller payroll.

Compare repeatable workflows by input quality, error cost and review burden before testing one small candidate.

Use AI for summaries and drafts with explicit review points, protected inputs and a correction-rate record that includes rejected output.

Set prompt-data boundaries, check the exact account and tool documentation, and give staff an approved-use note with an owner and a stop route.

Review the access, integrations, alerts and recovery paths around your RMM, PSA and documentation systems, with a usable evidence sheet.

Keep renewals, licence checks, lifecycle dates and roadmap decisions in one owned calendar, while leaving approvals and relationship work with people.

Turn a small authorized evidence pack into a checked client-review brief, with permission tests and an honest effort comparison.

Design an authenticated knowledge agent that answers from a small approved procedure library and refuses unsupported or unauthorized requests.

Build a dry-run request-to-approval workflow with verified organization context, duplicate controls and a separately gated write stage.

Compare two fictional procedure revisions in a private, bounded draft workflow and produce a source-checked change note without rewriting policy automatically.

Produce an evidence-linked handoff from fictional ticket notes while preserving failed fixes, unresolved status and human authority over replies and changes.

Turn a discovered script or policy suggestion into a reviewed provenance record, a bounded lab plan and an evidence-based accept or reject decision.

Close tickets cleanly, record the work properly and hand off without losing anything.

Before changing headcount or price, inspect the evidence.

Make the daily desk and the next handoff easier to manage.

Turn repeat decisions into standards and testable changes.

Find the repeatable work, test it safely and count what it really saves.

Prioritize real exposure and keep your own tools from becoming the incident.

Keep each client relationship tied to decisions, renewals and follow-through.

MSP field guides and resources about ai.

MSP field guides and resources about automation.

MSP field guides and resources about hiring & capacity.

MSP field guides and resources about client reviews.

MSP field guides and resources about profitability.

MSP field guides and resources about onboarding.

MSP field guides and resources about standards.

MSP field guides and resources about security.

MSP field guides and resources about service desk.

MSP field guides and resources about time tracking.

MSP field guides and resources about documentation.

MSP field guides and resources about renewals & lifecycle.

Free printable working sheet: qbr agenda and decision record. Printable checklist and editable Markdown companion; read the guide for context.

Free printable working sheet: post-go-live 30/60/90 checklist. Printable checklist and editable Markdown companion; read the guide for context.

Free printable working sheet: weekly service-manager review. Printable checklist and editable Markdown companion; read the guide for context.

Free printable working sheet: technical standard and exception fields. Printable checklist and editable Markdown companion; read the guide for context.

Free printable working sheet: time-entry standard and quality check. Printable checklist and editable Markdown companion; read the guide for context.

Free printable working sheet: hiring and capacity evidence note. Printable checklist and editable Markdown companion; read the guide for context.

Free printable working sheet: automation savings review note. Printable checklist and editable Markdown companion; read the guide for context.

Free printable working sheet: automate-before-hire decision note. Printable checklist and editable Markdown companion; read the guide for context.

Free printable working sheet: automation candidate and pilot sheet. Printable checklist and editable Markdown companion; read the guide for context.

Free printable working sheet: service-desk ai use-case and review record. Printable checklist and editable Markdown companion; read the guide for context.

Free printable working sheet: ai approval sheet and staff-use note. Printable checklist and editable Markdown companion; read the guide for context.

Free printable working sheet: msp tooling access and recovery review. Printable checklist and editable Markdown companion; read the guide for context.

Free printable working sheet: client calendar and decision sheet. Printable checklist and editable Markdown companion; read the guide for context.

Free printable working sheet: copilot preparation pilot worksheet. Printable checklist and editable Markdown companion; read the guide for context.

Free printable working sheet: copilot studio procedure finder design and test sheet. Printable checklist and editable Markdown companion; read the guide for context.

Free printable working sheet: rewst approval and duplicate-control worksheet. Printable checklist and editable Markdown companion; read the guide for context.

Free printable working sheet: claude procedure change-review worksheet. Printable checklist and editable Markdown companion; read the guide for context.

Free printable working sheet: chatgpt handoff review worksheet. Printable checklist and editable Markdown companion; read the guide for context.

Free printable working sheet: script and gpo candidate review worksheet. Printable checklist and editable Markdown companion; read the guide for context.

Prep checklist, data pull list, agenda and meeting structure, an editable DOCX report and XLSX metrics/roadmap workbook, and a follow-up email.

Eight client columns for one period: assigned gross margin, effective hourly rates and scope signals. A two-client sample is also included.

Compare current workload with an automation scenario. Separate existing from proposed savings, include exceptions and maintenance, and record an owned next step.

Practitioner questions and conflicting experiences; useful for finding issues to investigate, not representative statistics.

An MSP membership community with business resources; check current membership costs and fit before joining.

An MSP membership organization and peer network; useful when comparing community and vendor-program options.

A starting list for comparing peer-group formats and providers, not a guarantee about any group.

Adam Hannemann’s practitioner videos on service management, client reviews and operating an MSP.

A broad MSP reference covering operations, roles and AI; useful as an orientation map before specific vendor research.

Practitioner articles on Microsoft 365 administration; useful for worked explanations alongside vendor documentation.

The certification provider’s catalog; useful for checking official service-management learning options.

Primary reference for Microsoft 365 administration and product-specific behavior.

Primary documentation for interpreting Windows quality-update reporting in Intune.

Vendor recipes for reporting and triage across MSP systems; useful for inspecting workflow inputs and permission boundaries.

Primary language and module documentation for understanding scripts before adapting them.

An official framework reference for organizing cyber-risk conversations and outcomes.

A control-framework starting point for defining assessment questions and technical review scope.

Documentation for the Microsoft 365 administration tool; useful when checking supported operations and deployment assumptions.

An independent visual comparison aid for Microsoft 365 features and licenses.

A community directory of admin scripts, Group Policy references and utilities. Use it to find candidates to inspect, then review provenance, license and every line before a lab test.