PUBLISHED: APR 1, 2026INDEXED: APR 28, 2026, 7:16 AM

How AI Is Reshaping IT Services from the Inside

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AI + a16z
Apr 1

The managed service provider market is lagging a decade behind modern tech

The managed service provider market is essentially a hundred billion dollar industry that is stuck a decade behind modern technology. When you look at how most of these MSPs operate today, they are still using legacy ticketing systems and manual processes that haven't changed since the early 2010s. We saw an opportunity to come in and rebuild that stack from the ground up using AI to handle the rote tasks that consume so much human time.

Peter Doyle
AI + a16z
Apr 1

Pure play software struggles to capture value in services categories

Pure play software often struggles in these services categories because the friction of adoption is just too high for the end user. You can't just hand a traditional IT shop a new AI tool and expect them to re-engineer their entire workflow overnight. By being the service provider ourselves, we can bake the software directly into the delivery model and prove the value through better margins and faster response times.

Peter Doyle
AI + a16z
Apr 1

Vertical integration is the primary advantage for modern service firms

Vertical integration is really the secret sauce when you are trying to disrupt a legacy services industry. By owning the full stack—from the software that routes the tickets to the technicians who actually fix the servers—you eliminate the finger-pointing that happens between vendors. This allows us to capture the full economic benefit of the automation we build, rather than just selling a license and hoping someone uses it correctly.

Peter Doyle
AI + a16z
Apr 1

Forward deployed engineers signal how companies will adopt AI tools

The rise of the forward deployed engineers tells us a lot about how AI adoption is actually going to happen in the enterprise. It’s not just about shipping code; it’s about having engineers who sit with the customer to understand the specific edge cases of their business. We are applying that same philosophy to IT services, where the AI handles the standard stuff and our best people focus on the complex, bespoke problems.

Peter Doyle

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