Smash the Rules

The rules it has in mind, moreover, apply to vendors and MSPs as much as marketplaces. Plus: Slide’s step into the MCP future and yin-and-yang SMB data from GTIA.

…Slide is living in the MCP future

My last post included a prediction, based on a conversation with Elliott Hyman of Lyra Technology Group, that someday in the future managed services software could look a lot more like genAI chatbots than the often complex GUIs technicians use today.

I suppose I should have guessed that Slide’s McChord is living in that future today.

Very quietly and not long ago, Slide shipped an MCP-based tool (coded by McChord himself) that lets MSPs use Anthropic’s Claude as the administrative interface for the vendor’s data protection platform, and I got a demo of the system in Slide’s booth at ChannelCon. Want to see which clients you’re protecting? Just ask…