8os gives you the operating system to govern and monetize the diverse agentic workforce. 8bot gives you a managed AI coworker you can deploy and support for customers.<\/p>\n
Together, they move you from managing software to AI workforce management, allowing you to build a managed intelligence<\/a> business around helping your customers put AI to work.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n As your customers put more AI to work, different agents, models, tools and providers can create agent sprawl and ecosystem fragmentation across your customer base.<\/p>\n With 8os, you don\u2019t have to manage that complexity across separate tools and customer environments. You get one place to oversee the AI workforce across your customers while still supporting the different technologies they use.<\/p>\n 8os is the operating system for governing and monetizing the agentic workforce,<\/a> bringing different agents, models, tools and providers under your oversight across customers.<\/p>\n The payoff is more control over the AI work you manage, more choice in the technologies you can support and more capability to build the managed intelligence services your customers need.<\/p>\n As AI expands across your customers, you need to know what AI is working where, what it can access and what actions it can take.<\/p>\n 8os brings different AI workers under one governed workforce across your customers, giving you a central approach to AI workforce management as your customers adopt more AI. You can manage access, set rules for how AI operates and see the actions that matter, giving you the visibility and control to stand behind the AI work you manage.<\/p>\n When an AI worker needs attention, 8os surfaces it so you know where to step in. And when a customer asks what AI is operating in their business, what it can access or what it did, you have an answer.<\/p>\n Each customer environment stays separate, while credentials are managed centrally. That gives AI workers access to approved connections without exposing the underlying secrets and creates a stronger foundation for AI agent governance.<\/p>\n What makes an AI coworker useful isn\u2019t just what it can do. It\u2019s what it already understands when the next task begins.<\/p>\n 8os helps preserve the memory, preferences and business knowledge that AI coworkers build within each customer\u2019s environment. Instead of starting cold each time, the AI coworker can carry relevant context forward, so employees spend less time repeating information and explaining how work gets done.<\/p>\n As you review results with customers, you can refine instructions, improve skills and provide better context. What works can inform what happens next, helping the AI coworker become more useful over time.<\/p>\n For MSPs, the expertise you gain from each deployment doesn\u2019t have to disappear when you move to the next. You can adapt what works while keeping each customer\u2019s context, policies and information separate.<\/p>\n AI work becomes difficult to sell when you can\u2019t clearly connect what customers use to what it costs. A customer wants to understand what they\u2019re paying for. You need to know what the work costs you to deliver.<\/p>\n 8os gives you visibility into usage and spend across customers. By tying consumption to the customer and AI worker behind it, you can understand costs, control spending and set your own pricing.<\/p>\n You can also set budgets and spending limits by customer to help avoid unexpected costs. Consolidated charges on your Pax8 invoice simplify reconciliation while you maintain control of the customer relationship.<\/p>\n That helps you turn variable AI consumption into AI managed services you can package, price and grow profitably.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Through 8os, you can deploy and manage a diverse agentic workforce. 8bot gives you a fast place to start with a packaged, managed AI coworker you can deploy to a customer in minutes and put to work right away.<\/p>\n Employees can hand 8bot everyday work and get results back to review, refine and use. When a task needs additional expertise, 8bot can bring in specialist agents to help complete the work.<\/p>\n For MSPs, that means you can start showing customer value in minutes instead of spending weeks building, implementing, testing and tuning a custom solution. You get a ready-to-deploy managed service you can monetize, while 8os gives you room to support specialist, custom and third-party agents as your customers\u2019 needs grow.<\/p>\n Most AI still gives employees something they have to finish, whether it\u2019s an outline, draft, list or summary. 8bot goes further by giving them an AI coworker that can take on everyday work and move it closer to done.<\/p>\n A meeting brief can arrive ready to review. Research can come back assembled instead of scattered across tabs. When a task needs more specialized expertise, 8bot can bring in specialist agents to help complete the work while the employee continues working with their AI coworker.<\/p>\n Employees still provide direction, judgment and accountability, but spend less time gathering information, switching between tools and manually carrying work forward.<\/p>\n For you, that creates something customers can actually see and value: work getting done. And because 8bot is a pre-packaged AI coworker, you can start delivering that workforce capacity in minutes instead of building a custom AI solution for every employee or customer.<\/p>\n Your customers shouldn\u2019t have to figure out how to manage AI on their own. They need to know who has access, what their AI coworker can connect to and when a person needs to step in.<\/p>\n With 8bot, you manage user access while customers approve connections and Pax8 protects the credentials 8bot uses. Built-in guardrails set boundaries, and 8bot asks for approval before taking consequential actions. You can also see usage by user and customer, giving you the information you need to support the service.<\/p>\n The customer gets an AI coworker that moves work forward without having to manage the experience alone. You stay behind the service as needs change and issues arise.<\/p>\n AI is hard to turn into recurring revenue when every customer becomes another custom project. With 8bot, you can deploy a ready-to-use AI coworker in a few clicks and start showing customers value withing minutes.<\/p>\n As customers see value, you can expand AI coworkers to more employees and eventually support work across teams. A shared coworker could support a business function such as customer service by helping prepare responses, organize incoming requests and surface exceptions that need human attention.<\/p>\n That gives you a path from delivering value to one employee to supporting more AI work across the customer\u2019s business, creating a broader AI managed services opportunity as their needs grow.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n AI is changing more than how your customers get work done. It\u2019s changing what they\u2019ll need from you.<\/p>\n You already understand their business, their technology and where work gets stuck. Now you can give customers more choice in how they put AI to work, while maintaining control as different agents, models, tools and providers become part of the same workforce.<\/p>\n With 8os and 8bot, you also gain the capability to turn that responsibility into a managed intelligence business. You can bring AI work together as a cohesive service, create new opportunities for customers and build recurring revenue around managing intelligence.<\/p>\n You don\u2019t have to become a different kind of provider. What changes is what your customers trust you to manage.<\/p>\n The opportunity to build your managed intelligence business starts with understanding where 8os and 8bot can fit into the services you already deliver.<\/p>\n 8os and 8bot are currently available through limited early access. Explore each product to see how you can prepare to start building AI workforce management and AI services into your business. 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Meet 8os: The Agentic Workforce Operating System<\/h2>\n
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<\/p>\nOne Governed Agentic Workforce<\/h3>\n
Compounding Intelligence<\/h3>\n
Predictable Economics<\/h3>\n
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Meet 8bot: The Managed AI Coworker for Everyday Work<\/h2>\n
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<\/p>\nGet Work Moving<\/h3>\n
Give Customers a Trusted Service<\/h3>\n
Build a Service That Delivers Real Value<\/h3>\n
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New Opportunities For You. More Workforce Capacity for Small Businesses.<\/h2>\n
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<\/p>\nExplore 8os and 8bot. Join The Waitlist.<\/h2>\n