For Founders, CEOs, and Partner & MSP Leadership Teams

AI and consumption models change how you create value and how you’re valued

New AI and customer outcome-based consumption models may disrupt your services portfolio and mix, seller comp, delivery costs, and cash flows all at once. We help founders and leaders develop executable transformation plans that prioritize investments without starving cash flows. This includes developing high-value, high-margin AI-ready services that deliver business outcomes for which customers will pay a premium.

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Independent by design

We work for you, not your vendors

We advise partners independently of any vendor. Our vendor work is program design. It never involves your accounts, your pricing, or your data, and nothing you share with us reaches a vendor without your written consent.

Ask whether your vendors' partner development or MDF funds can cover part of your engagement. We'll help you build the request.

Since 2004Partner and go-to-market advisory
60+ countriesEngagements on six continents
BillionsIn client value realized
Both sidesFirst-hand vendor and partner experience

We have run the partner P&L

From −$2M to +$7M EBITDA in less than three years

Our founder has owned a $100M business-unit P&L on the partner side. In one turnaround, he inherited an operation losing $2M in EBITDA and took it to $7M in positive EBITDA in less than three years, a $9M swing.

The playbook: build a defined portfolio of differentiated professional services that delivered customer outcomes, then transform the sales force to lead with that value. It is the same discipline we bring to your business.

Managed & AI Services Portfolio Design
−$2M → +$7MEBITDA, inherited to transformed
$9MEBITDA swing
< 3 yearsTime to transform
$100MBusiness-unit P&L owned on the partner side

Questions founders bring us

The decisions that determine whether the transition pays off

How do we fund the dip from upfront to monthly revenue?

Model the cash bridge, working capital, and financing options before the P&L feels it. Financial Modeling Workshop

What will a buyer pay for our business, and what moves the multiple?

Recurring mix, margin architecture, concentration, and the equity story PE and strategic buyers look for. Valuation Advisory

Which AI services should we sell, and can we deliver them profitably?

Data readiness, AI and agent deployment, AI governance, and AI-enabled managed security, priced and packaged to margin. Managed & AI Services Portfolio Design

How do we move seller comp from bookings to recurring revenue?

Shift the plan without losing your best reps or a quarter of pipeline. Financial Modeling Workshop

What gross margin do we need by service line?

Delivery model, tooling, automation, and utilization targets that make managed services worth scaling. Portfolio Design

Can our organization actually execute the shift?

An honest baseline on sellers, delivery, finance, and leadership habits, and what to fix first. Organizational Readiness Diagnostic

Selected client results

Practices built to grow, and to make money

Recent work with partners, integrators, and the vendors who depend on them.

Global IT vendor’s partners Profitable practices Readiness, financial models, and multi-year plans

As part of a global XaaS transformation, we worked directly with partners to assess readiness and risk, model financial performance, build multi-year business plans, and create profitable, differentiated practices.

XaaS transitionFinancial modelingPractice design
Global systems integrator 3-year pro forma Built, then operationalized

Evolved the go-to-market strategy for a healthcare portfolio: identified additional use cases and target buying centers, and developed the three-year business pro forma the client put into operation.

HealthcareGTM strategyBusiness plan
Partner lifecycle services Global Lifecycle services capability built

Led a global enablement strategy that accelerated partners’ lifecycle services capabilities and practice development across Land, Adopt, Expand, and Renew.

Lifecycle servicesEnablementPractice development

Client names are confidential.

The vendor transition is well documented. The partner transition is harder, and less forgiving.

Vendors and partners share a market — not a business model. Where vendors defend product margin through the transition, partners must reengineer services differentiation, working capital, and delivery economics simultaneously. The playbook that works for a vendor rarely works for the partner selling and delivering it.

The partner journey is harder. Consumption compresses traditional resale and services revenue, unless you re-engineer the value you deliver across the customer lifecycle.

Source: nVision Consulting Group

What this means for founders and partner leadership

Recurring consumption models can lower near-term revenue and cash before they lift margin and valuation. Plan and fund the trough before you enter it.

Click-to-buy, self-provisioning, and AI automation shrink traditional professional services and resale margin — so partners must establish new services to accelerate customer AI‑powered outcomes and value.

Winning partners engineer new lifecycle value: recurring and AI services, outcome-based delivery, and differentiation for which customers and buyers will pay a premium.

Partner Transformation Framework

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nVision's AI experience

We built our own AI-powered practice. We can help you build yours.

We run our own practice on a governed AI architecture. We help you put AI to work in yours: in what you sell to customers, and in how you sell and deliver it.

AI in your own go-to-market

Use AI to reach, win, and grow customers faster, on your terms, across every vendor you represent.

  • Sharpen the offers, value narrative, and proof points that customers buying AI outcomes respond to
  • Apply AI to your own sales and marketing motion: research, proposals, enablement, and follow-through

Your own unique value, delivered with service excellence

Incorporate AI into how you create and deliver services, so differentiation and quality rise together.

  • Package AI services customers will buy now: data readiness, AI and agent deployment, AI governance, and AI-enabled managed security
  • Embed AI in service delivery, with the security and human-in-the-loop controls that let you extend what AI does for customers without extending risk
Managed & AI Services Portfolio Design See our AI architecture blueprint

Recurring Revenue & Valuation Services

Five engagements, sequenced to protect cash and margin as you scale recurring revenue, and to build the value a buyer pays for.

Partner Valuation Advisory
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Partner Financial Modeling Workshop
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Managed & AI Services Portfolio Design
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Partner-Led Customer Engagement Framework
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Organizational Readiness Diagnostic
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Partner Financial Modeling Workshop

In one to two days, your leadership team models the cash bridge, margin targets, and valuation impact of the shift to recurring revenue, and leaves with a plan it can execute.

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Schedule a confidential 30-minute working session with our Managing Director.

Robert Saxe, Managing Director

Robert Saxe

Managing Director

nVision Consulting Group
812 E. Main Street, Suite 201
Saint Charles, IL 60174

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