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Steven Bartlett, Creator of The Diary of a CEO, to Headline Thrive

Steven Bartlett—creator of Diary of a CEO and one of the most influential entrepreneurs of his generation—is headlining Thrive 2026. With 13M YouTube subscribers and over one billion streams, he knows how to captivate a room. Expect a masterclass on leadership, momentum, and building with conviction. Joining him: Zack Kass, former Head of Go-to-Market at OpenAI.

By Rebecca Muhlenkort / AppDirect / July 21, 2026

Strategy & Best Practices

Grow Beyond Your Core Stack: 10 Reasons MSPs Choose AppDirect

MSPs face a real tension: customers want more coverage across telecom, cloud, energy, and AI, but complexity rises faster than capacity. Here are 10 operational reasons why top MSPs are choosing AppDirect to expand their offering without losing control of the customer relationship.

By Rebecca Muhlenkort / AppDirect / July 20, 2026

Technology Insights

Agentic Software Development Created New Friction Points—Where to Find Them, How to Fix Them

As AI accelerates software development, the bottleneck doesn't disappear. It moves. Mathew Spolin, AppDirect's SVP of Engineering and Technology, maps the four friction points that emerge when coding gets fast — and the practical solutions engineering and business leaders can act on today.

By Mathew Spolin / AppDirect / June 3, 2026

News & Updates

The Three Reasons Enterprise AI Stalls, and How Devs.ai Clears All of Them

Your teams have been waiting for this. Devs.ai by AppDirect just expanded into a full enterprise AI platform, and what's now possible has genuinely shifted. Any team can build production-ready AI apps on their own data in days. A governed private AI store gives every employee something better than any public tool they were using before. And soon, Devs.AI will connect natively to the 2,000+ services your business already runs on. This is what enterprise AI looks like when it's built right.

By Denise Sarazin / AppDirect / June 1, 2026

News & Updates

Microsoft 365 Prices Are Changing: Lock in Current Rates by June 30 and Help Customers Optimize their Microsoft Solutions.

Microsoft 365 prices are going up on July 1, 2026. But this moment is about more than a deadline. It's a chance to have a more strategic conversation: about whether customers are getting full value from Microsoft, where software waste is quietly eroding their budgets, and where AI fits into their plans.

By Denise Sarazin / AppDirect / May 29, 2026

Strategy & Best Practices

AI Readiness: The DOs and DON'Ts That Determine Success

Most AI initiatives don't fail because of the technology. They fail because organizations skip the readiness work. The companies getting real value from AI do the prep work first: they establish the right use cases and metrics, clean up their data, and fix broken processes. Learn what to do and what to avoid to ensure successful AI deployments.

By Denise Sarazin / AppDirect / May 26, 2026