You did not get into this business to sell configuration hours, but at some point that became the model anyway. In this episode, I break down the one number from Forrester's Microsoft modern work partner study that every SaaS partner should sit with: 60 percent of last year's partner revenue growth came from AI, and the fastest growing slice was not deployment, it was advisory, up 63 percent in a single year. Your vendor is making the technical work easier on purpose, which means if your value lives in the setup, you are the friction they are designed to remove. I walk through why the partners who moved to advisory a year ago already own the relationships, the reputation, and the recurring revenue, and what that head start really costs everyone still waiting to feel the pressure. If you want to know whether the WHO, the WHAT, or the HOW is the actual constraint holding your business on the runway, this one is for you.

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