8os
Build an Agentic Workforce
Meet the Agentic Workforce Powering SMBs
Managed by You
AI entered your clients’ businesses without you. Pax8 8os brings it together so you can govern the work, control costs and build a business around it.
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Bring Their AI Into View
Bring customer AI into view so you can manage access, monitor usage and support the work it does.
Grow Expertise with Every Client
Turn proven workflows into your next deployment so every success builds expertise you can put to work.
Build Services Around AI Spend
Track customer usage and budgets to plan AI costs and shape an ongoing service customers can buy.
Run AI as a Managed Service with 8os
Build and Manage an Agentic Workforce Across Your Clients, Backed by Your Expertise.
Turn Your Expertise into Recurring Value
Manage your clients’ AI as an agentic workforce, backed by your ongoing support. 8os gives you a view across customers, with each client’s agents, usage and budgets in context. Know where your support is needed and bring informed guidance to every conversation. Your expertise becomes the ongoing service.
Build From the Best Starting Point
- Deploy a ready-to-work AI coworker.
- Build your own agents from scratch.
- Connect supported AI and start governing its use.
See how three starting points become one managed experience. Bring agents into view, track usage and manage budgets by client. From the first deployment to an ongoing service, watch how 8os helps you turn scattered AI into an agentic workforce you can run.
Their AI Workforce. Your Expertise at Work.
Turn Client Capacity into a Repeatable Service You Govern, Support and Make Your Own.
Add a Managed AI Coworker to Your Clients’ Businesses
Employees hand off everyday work to 8bot. Your clients gain capacity backed by support.
Add a Managed AI Coworker to Your Clients’ Businesses
Employees hand off everyday work to 8bot. Your clients gain capacity backed by support.
Build Around Your Clients’ Work
Build agents from scratch. Turn proven workflows into repeatable client services.
Bring Your Clients’ AI Under Your Management
Connect supported AI through the built-in gateway. Manage usage and budgets by customers.
Security and Trust
Put AI to Work with Clear Boundaries
Bring customer AI into view with 8os and guide a responsible rollout. When you deploy 8bot, clear boundaries help people stay involved.
Customer-Level 8os Management
8bot App Access
8bot Protected Workspace
Keep With the Module
“SMBs can change business processes overnight, and MSPs are creating agents on behalf of their customers substantially quicker than enterprise organizations are able to.”
David Meister, VP of MSP
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8os FAQs
Common Questions About 8os
What is 8os?
8os is an agentic workforce operating system that brings customer AI into one management experience for MSPs. It is designed to help providers deploy, connect and build AI agents, then manage access, usage and budgets by customer. The aim is to turn scattered AI activity into an ongoing service your team can support.
What is Managed Intelligence?
Managed intelligence means treating agentic AI for the workforce as an ongoing customer service, not a collection of disconnected tools. Providers help customers choose useful work, put AI into use and manage the access, usage, budgets and support around it as needs change.
How is 8os different from an AI agent or automation platform?
An agent or automation platform helps perform work. 8os focuses on how providers manage that work across customers: connecting supported AI, deploying or building agents and reviewing usage and budgets in one place. Management ease is the difference; governance supports that service rather than replacing it.
Do I have to standardize my clients on one AI vendor?
The direction is to support different customer needs through supported tools and models, not require every customer to adopt one AI vendor. Compatibility is not universal. Confirm the supported connections and model choices for the release before designing a customer service around them.
Who is 8os built for?
8os is built for MIPs, MSPs and other providers helping small and midsized businesses put AI agents to work in a way people can actually use, trust and depend on. It brings the provider’s guidance and support into the experience, so customer AI becomes a service that helps teams get more done while the provider develops, oversees and improves it over time.
What problem does 8os solve for small and midsized clients?
Small and midsized businesses are under pressure to do more with limited time, tools and support. 8os enables their trusted provider to operate AI agents for small business that help teams move everyday work forward, free up time for higher-value work and keep that work governed, visible and accountable.
How does 8os help providers govern an agentic workforce?
8os brings customer agents, usage and budgets into one managed experience. Providers can use that visibility to guide rollout, define support responsibilities and review how AI is being used by each client. Governance also means checking the permissions and safeguards of the agents and connected services involved, not assuming every tool has the same controls.
Can 8os help providers manage AI a customer already uses?
8os is designed for the reality that clients may already have AI in motion. As supported AI management capabilities become available, providers will be able to bring more customer AI activity into a managed 8os experience, including expanded support for third-party AI tools. Availability will vary by release, so providers should confirm supported connections before building a client offer around them.
How does 8os help providers manage clients separately?
8os is designed for a multi-tenant provider model, helping MSPs manage agents, access, usage and budgets in each client’s context. This supports clearer oversight and service planning by customer. Providers should confirm the available access controls and data boundaries for the agents and services they deploy.
Do all agents managed through 8os have the same security safeguards?
No. Safeguards depend on the agent, its connections and the service behind it. Providers should confirm app permissions, approval requirements and data handling for each supported agent before putting it to work for a client.
Can providers cap AI usage by client in 8os?
8os is designed to help providers review AI usage and budgets by client, giving them a clearer way to manage consumption across customers. Where usage limits or caps are available, providers can use them to support responsible rollout, reduce surprise costs and shape AI services around each client’s needs. Release-specific controls should be confirmed before making client commitments.
How does 8os help providers scale successful AI services across customers?
Providers can use prior service experience to help configure similar services for other customers, while keeping each customer’s tools, access and context separate. Adapting a service for another customer does not mean sharing one customer’s data or model memory with another.
How does 8os help providers manage AI costs and create predictable pricing?
8os gives providers customer-level visibility into AI usage and budget activity, helping them understand consumption patterns before they shape a service offer. This visibility can support more predictable planning and pricing conversations, but it does not guarantee a fixed total cost or margin. Availability and behavior of budget controls should be confirmed before making client commitments.
How does 8os help providers build trust in customer AI?
8os helps providers build trust by bringing customer-level AI usage, budgets and context into one managed experience. This visibility supports clearer conversations about how AI is used, what it costs and who is responsible for ongoing support. Providers can set expectations with each client and guide responsible rollout as needs change. Budget controls vary by release, and visibility supports informed planning, not guaranteed costs or margins.
What is an agentic workforce operating system?
An agentic workforce operating system helps providers bring AI agents into the way a customer’s business actually works. With 8bot, small business teams can get help moving everyday work forward, freeing people to focus on higher-value work that improves the business. With 8os, providers can bring AI work under one managed experience, with clearer visibility into access, usage, budgets and support so customers can trust the AI working alongside their teams.
How should providers get started with 8os?
Start with the client need: more capacity, clearer visibility or a repeatable AI-powered service. Then choose the right path: deploy 8bot as a managed AI coworker, build agents around your clients’ work or bring more client AI into view through 8os. Define access, budget expectations and support responsibilities before rollout so customers know what is managed, visible and supported. From there, providers can begin shaping agentic AI services they can govern, support and make their own.