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by daft_pink 102 days ago
Does anyone else want a managed service provider that just gives your access to tools I can't buy because they have large minimum seat counts and lets you build it yourself with minimal support and fees?

Someone that will resell you 5-10 seats for something and leave you alone and you don’t have a steep monthly fee?

I love my IT provider, but they really don’t resell stuff. I would love to get Abnormal or Huntress SAT, but I just don’t have the numbers to justify it.

Are there any good conduit MSPs for DIYers or people who have smaller IT contractors that just do the basic turn it off and on again fix for frontend employees, while I build out my own solutions myself?

I’m just curious if something like that exists?

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We're getting close to launching a SaaS version of Dovre (dovre-cyber.com). The essential tier will have a monthly cost of about $500. Customers can tune log ingestion and retention, and add services (MDR and more tools) according to their needs, all with transparent pricing. We're planning to sell directly to businesses, including small ones, but we've also taken care to include tools that make it suitable for reselling by MSPs and MSSPs, with or without their services added on top. We don't have SAT as part of the initial service offering, but it's on the roadmap, and will likely be added after the release of our email security gateway, scheduled for later this year. Feel free to reach out if you have questions or comments - I'd love to get your input on the ideal solution with regard to tool coverage, pricing and how to consume them. We don't have all the answers, but we're doing all we can to make a difference.
I hate the minimums some IT vendors require. Where you need to buy 100 seats for a pilot or for a team that is only going to be 20 people.

It would be nice to be able try some of these without having to jump through half a dozen sales calls and find out it is cost prohibitive or your team is way too small for the kind of business they target.

Yes, my undersanding is that there are aggregators like pax8, but you still have to be an msp get access to pax8.