MSP Profitability
Tips, News, and
Insights
MSP Profitability
Tips, News, and
Insights

Office Hours: Engineer Bonus Plans That Drive Behavior – May 2025
In this MSPCFO Office Hours, Lori Berry and Larry Cobrin sit down with Eric Hoffmaster to explore engineer bonus plans that truly drive behavior. Learn

Office Hours: Engineer Bonus Plans That Pay You Back – March 2025
Follow along as MSPCFO and Pax8 leaders dive deep on how to utilize engineer bonuses to level up profitability for your MSP.

Engineer Bonus Plans: How to Drive Revenue and Efficiency in Your MSP
Learn how to incentivize your engineers to drive revenue and clean up lagging internal processes.

Does One Good Metric Mean I Am Profitable?
Dive into what various metrics can indicate about profitability and discuss the different perspectives to take on those metrics.
The Churn Patterns We Didn’t Expect: Findings from Hundreds of MSPs
We took a deep-dive into churn data across hundreds of MSPs — and what we found challenges some common assumptions about which clients are at risk. High-efficiency clients, clients without active project work, and low-revenue accounts all showed elevated churn rates in the aggregate data. Here’s what the patterns reveal, and why it matters for any MSP focused on EBITDA growth.
Observations from GTIA: AI Growth Is Real, but Discipline Wins
AI isn’t the advantage anymore. Everyone has it. What separates firms now is how well they execute, operationalize, and manage the growing complexity across services, pricing, and delivery.

March 2026 Office Hours with Huntress
Many MSPs rely on industry benchmarks to gauge performance, pricing, and profitability — but those comparisons often miss the realities of how each business actually operates. Different service models, client expectations, and delivery methods make “average” metrics misleading. This blog explains why benchmarking against your own data leads to clearer insights, better decisions, and more predictable profitability.
From Industry Averages to Internal Alignment: A Smarter Way to Measure MSP Performance
Many MSPs rely on industry benchmarks to gauge performance, pricing, and profitability — but those comparisons often miss the realities of how each business actually operates. Different service models, client expectations, and delivery methods make “average” metrics misleading. This blog explains why benchmarking against your own data leads to clearer insights, better decisions, and more predictable profitability.
The Churn Patterns We Didn’t Expect: Findings from Hundreds of MSPs
We took a deep-dive into churn data across hundreds of MSPs — and what we found challenges some common assumptions about which clients are at risk. High-efficiency clients, clients without active project work, and low-revenue accounts all showed elevated churn rates in the aggregate data. Here’s what the patterns reveal, and why it matters for any MSP focused on EBITDA growth.
Observations from GTIA: AI Growth Is Real, but Discipline Wins
AI isn’t the advantage anymore. Everyone has it. What separates firms now is how well they execute, operationalize, and manage the growing complexity across services, pricing, and delivery.

March 2026 Office Hours with Huntress
Many MSPs rely on industry benchmarks to gauge performance, pricing, and profitability — but those comparisons often miss the realities of how each business actually operates. Different service models, client expectations, and delivery methods make “average” metrics misleading. This blog explains why benchmarking against your own data leads to clearer insights, better decisions, and more predictable profitability.
From Industry Averages to Internal Alignment: A Smarter Way to Measure MSP Performance
Many MSPs rely on industry benchmarks to gauge performance, pricing, and profitability — but those comparisons often miss the realities of how each business actually operates. Different service models, client expectations, and delivery methods make “average” metrics misleading. This blog explains why benchmarking against your own data leads to clearer insights, better decisions, and more predictable profitability.