Catalyst OS is the business-layer operating system for an MSP — it reads across the systems you already run, your PSA and CRM, and hands back your whole managed book, synthesized. As an ASCII Benefits Partner, we give active members a hands-on, founder-led trial you won't find on the public path. The benefit flows directly to members. ASCII stays neutral — no revenue share, no fee.
Across the channel, the business side of an MSP — retention signals, renewal urgency, pipeline, QBR prep — runs on spreadsheets and willpower. Your PSA sees the tickets slipping. Your CRM sees the champion go quiet. Your pipeline sees the renewal coming. None of them know it's the same story.
Catalyst OS is the layer that reads across all of it and returns one picture per client. It runs on your existing PSA and CRM data, read-only, delivered hands-on while we build it out with a founding cohort. Forget the AI buzzwords — the pitch is the outcome: your whole book ranked by who's closest to the edge, with the reasoning behind each score.
ASCII members are well-matched to where Catalyst OS does its best work, and we'd rather prove that to a community than advertise it. This benefit puts the trial in members' hands and asks ASCII for nothing but access.
No tiers, no packages, no price list. Every ASCII member gets the same thing: a members-only, no-charge trial of Catalyst OS Client 360 — the synthesis view of your whole managed book. It runs in three moves.
Your whole managed book, read across the systems you already run — ranked by who's closest to the edge, with a churn-risk score, ARR at risk, renewal urgency, and the reasoning behind each.
Free · 30 days · read-onlyRight now, every trial is hands-on: you work directly with the founders, we walk your book with you, and your input shapes the product against the connectors we've already built. Priority support and a direct line throughout.
Founding cohort · premier ASCII layerMoving from trial to the full platform normally starts with a paid assessment. For ASCII members we waive it — your high-touch trial already did that work — so you step straight into deployment as we light up the platform's use cases.
Assessment waivedThe trial exists on the public path too. What ASCII members get is the exclusive layer on top — the founder's time, not a discount code.
| Feature | Public trial | ASCII member — exclusive |
|---|---|---|
| Access | Open self-serve signup | Members-only · via ASCII Benefits Guide |
| Client 360 — whole book, read-only | Yes | Yes |
| Churn risk · ARR at risk · renewal urgency | Yes | Yes |
| 30-day trial · no card · no auto-convert | Yes | Yes |
| Trial engagement | Self-serve | High-touch · hands-on with the founders |
| Mid-trial walkthrough | Standard overview | Guided · founder-led for the founding cohort |
| Support during the trial | Email · best effort | Priority · a direct line to the team |
| Assessment to move forward | Paid assessment | Waived for ASCII members |
No rip-and-replace, no agents to manage, nothing touching your endpoints. Catalyst OS reads what you already have and returns the synthesis.
The trial shows you the picture. The platform acts on it — the use cases light up on the roadmap as the founding cohort deploys.
The trial is read-only and defined: your live Client 360 within 14 business days of kickoff — on a stack we already connect, with working read-only credentials in hand by that call — a guided founder-led walkthrough at day 14, and priority support throughout. On any other stack you get a real date at kickoff, not a countdown. No card, no auto-convert.
If you move forward, we put the deliverables and the outcomes we'll measure in writing before a dollar changes hands. You get working business infrastructure — not AI agents to manage. How we build it is our problem, not yours.
Catalyst OS is built for owner-led MSPs — the profile that overlaps closely with ASCII's Spark membership. No repositioning required.
No revenue share, no membership fee, no org-level economics. The benefit — including the founder's time — flows directly to the members who adopt.
Free, read-only, 30 days, no card, no auto-convert. It reads your existing stack and never writes back or touches an endpoint.
ASCII helped launch Datto from near-nothing into a household channel name. We're not asking for endorsement — we're asking for access, structured as a direct member benefit.
Listed in the ASCII Benefits Guide as an ASCII Benefits Partner perk. One benefit, members-only.
Sign the one-page trial agreement — read-only, no card — then a 30-minute kickoff to connect your stack.
Live Client 360 within 14 business days of kickoff — on a stack we already connect, with read-only credentials in hand by that call — and a guided founder-led walkthrough at day 14. On any other stack, a real date at kickoff.