Best MSP Peer Groups for Owners and Leaders (2026)

Walsh ran an MSP to locations in four states and exited it to a national information technology services company, which is the background that matters most in this category. He is facilitating a conversation he has already had with himself.

Three things on their page are the reason GAIN belongs on the shortlist. Groups are capped at 12, which is small enough that you get real airtime. Every member and every facilitator signs an NDA, and groups are composed exclusively of non-competing companies, so the confidentiality is contractual rather than cultural. And groups are tiered by revenue and operational maturity, which is a more useful split than revenue alone, because a disciplined $2M business and a chaotic $6M business have very little to teach each other.

Their own framing is unusually direct about what the room is for: leaning on other members' experience to make better decisions faster, rather than absorbing a curriculum. Their newer site adds that the firm takes no vendor money and carries no vendor sponsorships.

Wilkeson co-created the N-able industry benchmark behind entry 14 with Robert Wilburn, and the two of them went on to write Profit and Growth for MSPs. Before the advisory work he grew a 12-person value-added reseller (VAR) into an 85-person managed services company and exited it. The person convening the room also helped build the dataset a room like this measures itself against.

Their peer-group page describes rooms built one at a time rather than filled: a small curated roster of non-competing owners at similar scale, each group carrying a goal-oriented theme, facilitated by former MSP owners and operators and underpinned by financial and operational benchmarking. MSP Advisor's team page names operators behind the advisory firm too: Brian Cerny was president and chief operating officer of a 50-employee MSP, and Vincent De Beer has led MSPs of more than 100 staff.

Unusually for a facilitated room, the commercials are published: from $400 a month on a 12-month commitment, rooms capped at 12, and a quarterly submission of financial and operational numbers that is mandatory, not optional. The route in is a short fit call, and they say placement usually takes about 30 days. The room also sits inside an advisory firm that sells coaching, on-site training and consulting on professional services automation (PSA) platforms, and Instrumental, the outsourced accounting firm at entry 2 on our accounting page, names Wilkeson on its homepage as the MSP expert behind its chief financial officer (CFO) level guidance. Not a platform stack, and still a commercial relationship worth having in view.

Both founders scaled and exited their own MSPs, each reaching at least seven figures in earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA), per their about page. Borochaner covers operations and Lowenthal sales and finance, with coach Brian Curtis on leadership and business planning.

The model changed this year, and it is now closer to coaching with a peer room attached than a classic peer group. MSP Fuel sells one company membership at one company price, with separate small-group coaching for the owner, operations, sales and team-leader seats, all tied to a single company plan. The quarterly Next Level meeting, which their site calls its peer-group meeting experience, is where those leaders compare results against that plan with other MSPs.

It is built for established businesses, generally $3M plus in annual revenue and 15 or more employees. Entry starts with a 45-minute, owner-only MSP Scale Assessment, and no price is published.

Weaver co-founded MSPAlliance with Celia Weaver in 2000, and its own page describes more than 25 years of advancing the managed services profession, which makes this one of the longest-standing institutions on this list. Only ASCII, at entry 8, goes back further.

Inspire is aimed deliberately at the top of the market and its pitch is a critique of the rest of the category. Their page argues that too many peer groups are vendor-owned and built for sub-$2M businesses, and that if you have been the smartest person in the room for too long you need a different room. The membership form asks for annual revenue starting at $2M to $5M, conversations are framed around growing from $4M to $80M plus, and they state that members average 15 or more years in the industry. Groups are geographically separated so nobody sits with a direct competitor, and MSPs backed by private equity are not admitted.

The most interesting mechanic is new: quarterly meetings are now held at member offices, so you see how another operator actually runs rather than hearing about it. Locations named include Miami, Las Vegas, Scottsdale, New Orleans and Boston.

The lowest published price on this list for a membership with peer group matching. Moore started in the industry in 1998 and ran an MSP, acquired in 2016, before building the Tribe, which its site says more than 5,000 people have joined since 2017.

Peer groups are a feature inside the wider membership rather than the product itself. The site describes regular matchmaking events that put you with other MSPs at a similar level, and lists a formal accountability program and an intimate peer group only in Rainmakers, the application-only tier. Vendors are allowed in the community under a no-pitching policy.

Set your expectations accordingly. This is not a facilitated benchmarking room, and the join page is clear that the base price includes no private one-to-one coaching. What you are buying at $59 to $79 a month is a library of more than 1,000 templates, resources and workshops, a fast-moving community, and an introduction to peers at a similar level.

Built around roles as much as owners. Alongside an owners group they run separate rooms for chief operating officers, service delivery, project management, finance and sales leaders, which solves a problem most peer groups ignore: your service manager has nobody to compare notes with either, and sending the owner to every group does not fix that.

The chief operating officer track is aimed at operations leaders at businesses running roughly $4M to $17M in revenue, and no two members compete. Their own description of the format is the most useful line on the site: members share real numbers and challenge each other directly.

Their program pages describe the coaches who lead the groups as operators who have been in the seat, without naming them. The Forge 2026 event page names chief executive Brock Kuhse alongside panel and sponsor speakers, but none is identified as a group coach, and the old Taylor Business Group addresses now redirect to the Provarro homepage. Ask who will facilitate your specific group and what they ran before.

Robins is one of the most visible and longest-running names in this category. Her own site describes more than 25 years in MSP marketing, more than 10,000 MSPs consulted, and growing Technology Marketing Toolkit into what she calls the largest MSP peer group in the industry before exiting in 2025. Producers Club sits at the top of that structure and describes itself as the top-level mastermind peer group for Technology Marketing Toolkit members.

You cannot simply buy in. It is invitation-only, you must already be a senior member who has completed the fundamentals program, and a client coach has to approve you as the right fit. Active participation is a stated requirement rather than a suggestion.

What you are buying is a room of operators executing the same marketing system as you, which is both the strength and the limit. Comparisons are unusually direct because the playbook is shared, and the shared playbook is also the ceiling.

Ownership changed in 2025. Kaseya's own release of July 8, 2025 says it joined forces with Technology Marketing Toolkit and moved Robins to a strategic advisory role, and on June 9, 2026 Kaseya brought Technology Marketing Toolkit and TruMethods Peer under one umbrella, MSP Success Peer, where Producers Club is now the top tier, aimed at MSPs with $1M or more in revenue and five or more employees. Read entry 9 with that in mind: two of the best-known rooms in this category now have the same owner, and that owner sells a stack.

The longest-running community here, with 1,300 plus member companies across North America and roughly four decades of history. Koutavas became chief executive in June 2025 after close to 30 years in the channel, and ASCII's own materials credit the peer network with more than 500,000 member-to-member exchanges. In September 2026 GTIA acquired ASCII's assets, and ASCII now runs as its own community inside GTIA, keeping its forums and Edge events, with GTIA membership included in the price.

The model is breadth. Peer collaboration is one of a large number of programs inside a single membership, delivered through private forums, branded small-group programs, and in-person events including their regional Edge events. Vendor neutrality is a stated principle and there is no vendor pitching in the peer settings.

That breadth is also the trade. Because the peer component is bundled inside a membership that covers many other benefits, from procurement to education, you cannot price or size the peer-group element on its own, and it is a large community rather than one curated cohort.

Pica founded TruMethods in 2008, and their about page states he set out to make life easier for the MSP owners who came after him. If you have heard the vocabulary of this industry, much of it came through here.

The structure is the most intensive on this list: quarterly strategic meetings, regular accountability calls, and office hours every two weeks with their own experts alongside the peer room. Below it in MSP Success Peer sits an entry tier for emerging MSPs at around $25,000 in monthly recurring revenue and about three employees, a two-day in-person foundations workshop followed by virtual quarterly sessions, which is unusual because most programs at this level will not take a business that small.

The thing to weigh is ownership. TruMethods is inside Kaseya now, and Kaseya's own MSP Success site reports that October 2026 was Pica's final TruPeer event before he moved on. The framework is genuinely independent of any product in its logic, and the company that owns it sells a stack. Ask directly how the room handles a member whose honest next move is to leave that stack.

One of the largest programs in the category, with more than 1,000 group members, and the successor to the HTG peer groups that shaped this whole format. It is also the only one here with a track defined explicitly by revenue at $750,000 to $1.5M, which is where most owners first need this and where most programs will not take them.

Their published claims are a 24% improvement in EBITDA and 20% faster growth than the industry average. Those are their figures, measured by them, and nobody in this category publishes audited outcomes. The frameworks are named and long-established, including operational maturity level, curve jumping and legacy planning.

ConnectWise also runs the Service Leadership Index peer groups, which are the benchmarking-heavy sibling: quarterly meetings of about a day and a half, one or two executives per company, composed of non-competing geographies and similar business models, described on their page as a confidential and vendor-free environment.

Hedden co-founded Marketopia in 2014 after operating in this industry himself, and the peer groups sit inside a marketing agency rather than a coaching practice.

Two things here are more transparent than the category norm. Seat counts are published per room, so you can see the scale before you join: 12 in the Growth Mastermind, 10 in the Channel Leadership Forum, 15 in AI Practice Builders. And the top tier carries a real number, $1,999 a month, aimed explicitly at operators moving from a three to five times EBITDA multiple toward five to ten times. In a category where almost nobody publishes a price, both are worth credit.

The honest caveat is what the parent company sells. A room convened by your marketing vendor is a useful room and it is not a neutral one, and the agenda will tend toward demand generation because that is the house expertise. If marketing is your constraint, it helps to walk in with your own MSP marketing strategy first.

Not a peer group in the strict sense, and included because for a large number of owners it is the thing that actually answers the question at 11pm. It is a nonprofit community, free at the base tier, and it is where the technical depth of this industry congregates.

The board is the tell. Alongside Keigher it seats practitioners from vendors and consultancies and Kelvin Tegelaar, the chief technology officer at Lime Networks. A community whose board is made of the people other people quote is a different proposition from a forum.

Be clear about what it is not. There is no vetting, no non-competing rule, no cohort and no accountability. You will get an answer to a technical question faster than anywhere else on this page, and you will not get anyone holding you to a plan.

This is the community arm that was CompTIA's, now operating as the Global Technology Industry Association. If you belonged to a CompTIA community, this is where it went, and the rename is recent enough that plenty of owners have not registered it yet. In September 2026 GTIA also acquired the assets of The ASCII Group at entry 8, which now runs as its own community inside GTIA.

The proposition is association-level rather than cohort-level: member groups organized around business-building initiatives, regional communities, advisory councils, a mentorship program, and a security information-sharing organization for members. Shoer, as chief community officer, is the person who convenes it, and its board draws from across the channel, mixing MSP operators with vendor and distributor executives.

The closest thing to a peer room is Trust Circles, a new small-group program for collaborating and benchmarking on metrics you define, piloting first with members in the United States and Canada. GTIA publishes no cadence, group size or separate price for it, so treat GTIA as the vendor-neutral association layer that sits alongside a peer group rather than replacing one.

The peer groups sit inside N-able's Business Transformation program, alongside two things N-able lists as complimentary: two-day executive onsites organized by topic, and an anonymous benchmark you can filter by revenue and geography. That benchmark was co-created by Robert Wilburn and Dave Wilkeson, according to the authors' own site, who went on to write Profit and Growth for MSPs, and it is the reason the rooms work. Members bring numbers, and the numbers are compared against a real dataset rather than a hunch.

The format is more disciplined than most partner programs. Groups are curated so members are not competitors, the seat is meant for the owner or chief executive plus one optional second executive, former MSP executives facilitate, and N-able states it leaves the room when the financial discussion turns sensitive. The onsite track is pitched at medium and large MSPs; the online track runs 90 minutes a month. The most recent executive onsite ran in Portugal from November 10 to 12, 2026, and no further executive onsite is listed as of November 13, 2026.

The thing to weigh is the door. You get in through your N-able growth strategist, account manager or partner success manager, so the room sits inside an existing N-able relationship, and that is also the limit: this is not the room that will tell you to leave the platform, so ask how they handle it when a member's honest next move is exactly that.

Alexander's own biography describes more than 35 years in managed services, founding, building and selling two MSPs, and a hand in dozens of merger and acquisition deals. He trains the facilitators and leads several groups himself, and some of the facilitators named on the team page run businesses today, including Vince Tinnirello, managing director of Anchor Network Solutions, a Denver MSP.

Their homepage ranks accountability first: holding you to your goals is, in their words, the most important part of a peer group. Benchmarking sits underneath it, with members sharing common metrics against companies whose differences they can discuss. Groups are national, so no two members operate in the same market, and members are matched on size, headcount, lines of service, ownership structure and markets served. Seats exist for owners, service managers, sales managers and salespeople, not only the owner.

Two things stand out. Terms are month-to-month with a 90-day money-back guarantee, published on their own site. And the independence comes with something to ask about: MSP-Ignite says it is not part of any vendor organization and describes a zero-upsell approach, yet it runs a vendor partner program, with names such as Rewst, Blackpoint Cyber and Cytracom, and says vendors often ask for time in front of members to get feedback on new offerings and pricing.