Apply To Petronella MSP Partners
Start free: choose Petronella Partner ($0 to join) to refer clients for a 10% commission on services revenue or to resell our services white label at a per-deal wholesale quote. The same form covers the paid tiers: Petronella MSP Stack, Fleet, Operator Council and Strategic Partnership. Our team reviews every application within two business days. Petronella Partner applicants who fit receive the Partner Agreement for electronic signature.
Partner Application
All fields marked * are required. We use your answers to route to the appropriate tier and to prepare the intake call with the right Petronella team member.
What Happens After You Send This Form
The application routes to the right team based on the program you choose. Here is exactly what happens next, how to fill out the fields that matter, and what to read while you wait for the fit review.
Step-by-Step: What Happens to Your Application
- It arrives with the program you selected. The program selector tells us which path you want: Petronella Partner (free, $0 to join), MSP Stack, Fleet, Operator Council, or Strategic Partnership. Choosing Petronella Partner routes to the free agreement review; choosing a paid tier routes to that tier's process, which is application review plus a fit call for Council and Strategic, and a free 15-minute Discovery Call for Fleet.
- Fit review within two business days. Our team reviews every application within two business days. For the free Petronella Partner agreement, the reviewer is looking for alignment between your service lines and client base and something Petronella Technology Group, Inc. actually delivers. You do not need a client deal in hand to be approved as a free partner.
- Calendar link or agreement, depending on path. Petronella Partner applicants who fit receive the Partner Agreement for electronic signature. Council and Strategic applicants who qualify receive a calendar link for a fit call with Craig Petronella. Fleet applicants receive the Discovery Call booking link for the free 15-minute scoping call.
- Sign, then register deals. After you sign the Partner Agreement, register each client opportunity with us before you quote it. We approve or decline a deal registration within five business days, and an approved registration protects the opportunity for 90 days and can be renewed while the deal is active.
Become a Petronella Partner for $0: refer clients or resell white label
Petronella Technology Group, Inc. offers MSPs a free partner agreement. There is no fee to join and nothing to buy. You sign one agreement and choose, when you sign, how you want to work client deals: refer them and earn a commission, sell our services under your own brand at a per-deal wholesale quote, or both.
Option A: Referral, 10% of services revenue
- You introduce the client. Petronella Technology Group, Inc. sells, contracts and delivers under its own name.
- You earn 10% of the services revenue we receive from that client during the first 12 months of the client's agreement. Fees for work our team performs count; hardware, third-party licenses, platform and pass-through costs do not.
- Commissions are paid within 30 days after the month we receive the client's payment, with a commission statement. The client must sign with us within six months of your approved deal registration.
Option B: White label, per-deal wholesale quote
- You sell under your own brand at the price you set. We deliver as your subcontractor, and you bill the client.
- Each deal gets a written wholesale quote, valid for 30 days. Your margin is the difference between your price and the quote. Fixed-fee work is paid 100% upfront when the order is signed; recurring work is billed in advance.
- The client stays with your MSP. We do not knowingly solicit a white-label client to replace you for the same services, during the agreement and for 24 months after it ends (the agreement lists the exceptions).
- Apply free. Send the one-form partner application and choose Petronella Partner.
- Fit review. Our team reviews every application within two business days.
- Sign the agreement. If it is a fit, we send the Partner Agreement for electronic signature. You elect referral, white label, or both when you sign.
- Register each deal. We approve or decline a deal registration within five business days. An approved registration protects the opportunity for 90 days and can be renewed while the deal is active.
The agreement runs for one year and renews automatically unless either side gives 30 days' notice. It is non-exclusive for both sides. Attestation letters, documents signed by a credentialed practitioner such as a CMMC Registered Practitioner, submissions to regulators or assessors, and Business Associate Agreements always carry the Petronella Technology Group, Inc. name. Wholesale prices are quoted per deal and are not published.
Referral, White Label, or a Paid Tier?
The form routes to five different programs, and picking the wrong one costs you weeks. This section describes what each path is for, in the order most MSPs should consider them.
Start here: Petronella Partner, free
The default answer for almost every MSP. It is $0 to join, nothing to buy, and it produces revenue in the only two ways a partnership can: you refer a client and earn 10% of the services revenue Petronella receives in that client's first 12 months, or you resell Petronella's services white label at your own price over a per-deal wholesale quote. There is no exclusivity, no purchase requirement, and the agreement runs one year with 30 days' notice on either side.
Choose it because it costs nothing to find out whether Petronella delivers. Your first deal registration tells you more about the working relationship than any sales call would.
MSP Stack: train the team
Choose Stack when the gap is knowledge, not delivery capacity. The full Training Academy catalog, 35 courses and 779 lessons, lands on the member's account at checkout, including the CMMC 2.0 Implementation Bootcamp (67 lessons) and the 39-Layer Cybersecurity Framework course (54 lessons). The private member community and the monthly live Q&A with Craig Petronella are included.
Skip Stack if you already have credentialed compliance staff; it is built for MSPs building regulated-SMB capability, not for teams that have it.
Fleet: a specific client deal
Choose Fleet when a client deal in your pipeline needs private AI or compliance prototyping and your team cannot deliver it. Fleet is services-only, scoped per engagement from $35K to $125K+, and it starts with a free 15-minute Discovery Call rather than a checkout link. Four sub-tiers run from a 2-3 week proof of concept to a production-ready prototype with a compliance memo and audit evidence package.
If the deal is real, Fleet answers it. If you are exploring in general, start with the free partner agreement instead.
Council and Strategic: owner-level programs
Operator Council is a 20-seat peer council for owners of $3M to $15M regulated-MSPs, charter priced from $45K per year for the first 12 seats. Strategic Partnership is the from $25K per month advisory tier with a 12-month minimum and three clients maximum. Both are application-only, and both include a fit call with Craig Petronella before acceptance.
If neither revenue band describes your MSP, the free partner agreement remains open regardless of size.
Note: the MSP Growth founding membership is closed and no founding seats were started. The free Petronella Partner agreement is the current way to start. Full details and prices: pricing comparison.
How a Deal Registration Actually Works
Most questions applicants have are really questions about the first deal. Here is the full lifecycle, using only the published partner terms.
- The deal becomes real. A client on your book says they need CMMC readiness, a HIPAA security risk analysis, co-managed security for a regulated environment, or a private AI prototype. You have the relationship; the work is more than your team can deliver alone.
- You register the deal. Send us the opportunity: what the client needs, which framework applies, and your expected timeline. Do this before you quote the client, so the protection window covers your sales cycle.
- We respond within five business days. We approve or decline a deal registration within five business days. For a referral to earn commission, the client must sign with Petronella Technology Group, Inc. within six months of your approved registration.
- The registration protects the opportunity for 90 days. An approved registration protects the opportunity for 90 days and can be renewed while the deal is active. That window exists so you can run your sales process without racing a clock that resets behind your back.
- The engagement runs one of two ways. On referral, Petronella Technology Group, Inc. sells, contracts, and delivers under its own name, and you earn 10% of the services revenue we receive during the client's first 12 months, excluding hardware, third-party licenses, platform and pass-through costs. On white label, each deal gets a written wholesale quote valid for 30 days, you set your price, you bill the client, and your margin is the difference.
- You get paid on the published schedule. Referral commissions are paid within 30 days after the month we receive the client's payment, with a commission statement. On white label, you invoice the client directly, so payment timing follows your own terms with the client.
What the Fit Review Looks For
Every application gets a real review within two business days. Knowing what the reviewer weighs helps you write a form that gets an accurate answer quickly, either way.
An active MSP with a real client base
The referral and white-label options both assume you have clients to bring or clients to serve. The review is not a revenue gate; it is a check that the partnership has something to stand on.
Service lines that connect to ours
Co-managed security, compliance readiness for CMMC, HIPAA, or NIST 800-171, private AI prototyping, or forensics support. If your practice is print management and web hosting, the partnership will not produce value for either side, and an honest review says so.
A specific note beats a generic one
One sentence about a real client situation ("defense supplier, CMMC Level 2 gap assessment needed this quarter") gives the reviewer far more to work with than "exploring partnership opportunities". You are not committing to anything by describing the deal.
For paid tiers: the band that tier serves
Council is built for owners of $3M to $15M regulated-MSPs; Strategic requires a from $25K per month commitment over a 12-month minimum. Reviewers route applications outside a tier's band to the path that fits, rather than declining them outright.
If You Are Comparing Petronella With Other Partners
If you are evaluating more than one sub-contractor, these are the points where the Petronella partner terms are specific enough to compare line by line, and where you should demand the same specificity from anyone else you evaluate.
Entry cost: $0 versus a paid program
Petronella Partner is free to join with nothing to buy, and the paid tiers are optional additions rather than the price of admission. When you compare, ask what the other program costs before your first deal and what that fee buys that a free agreement would not.
A published commission structure
Referral pays 10% of services revenue for the client's first 12 months, with the pass-through exclusions stated up front and payment 30 days after the month the client pays, with a statement. Ask every partner for the number, the exclusions, and the payment timing in writing.
A written non-solicitation window
Petronella commits not to knowingly solicit a white-label client to replace you for the same services during the agreement and for 24 months after it ends, with the exceptions listed. A partner that will not put a number on this is telling you something.
Credentials that hold up in an audit
Petronella Technology Group, Inc. is a Cyber AB Registered Provider Organization (#1449), founded in 2002, BBB A+ rated since 2003, with a CMMC Registered Practitioner Team, a 24/7 SOC, and a founder who holds North Carolina Digital Forensic Examiner license 604180-DFE. Ask any partner what its equivalent paper trail is, because your client's auditor will.
Questions MSPs Ask Before Sending the Form
Direct answers built from the current partner terms on the MSP Partners hub. If your question is not here, call (919) 348-4912 or use the contact form.