Petronella MSP Stack - Sell Regulated-SMB Compliance Without Hiring a CMMC-RP
Everything a small-to-mid MSP needs to sound and act like a regulated-SMB specialist. Always-on membership. Fully self-serve. No hidden upsells. Built by Petronella Technology Group, operating since 2002, with four CMMC-RP engineers on staff, DFE forensics credentials, and a private AI fleet.
Not ready for a paid membership? Become a Petronella Partner for $0 and earn on referrals or resell white label.
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.
Petronella MSP Stack, below, is the optional paid tier for MSPs that also want the full training catalog and the private member community.
Want help selling security, compliance and AI work?
Stack is the optional paid tier for the full training catalog and the member community. The MSP Growth founding membership is closed, and no founding seats were started. The way to start today is the free Petronella Partner agreement above: there is no fee to join and nothing to buy, and you choose per deal whether to refer the client or sell our services under your own brand.
On referral you earn 10% of the services revenue we receive from that client during the first 12 months. On white label, each deal gets a written wholesale quote, valid for 30 days, and you set your own price. Register each deal with us before you quote it so the opportunity is protected for 90 days.
Apply free as a Petronella PartnerWhat's Included
Petronella MSP Stack costs $1,997 per month or $19,970 per year. Below is exactly what a member gets. Items marked "Available at checkout" are granted when checkout completes; items marked "In development" are being built for members and are not yet delivered. We label both so you can judge the price on what exists now. No onboarding sales call is required.
The full Training Academy catalog (35 courses, 779 lessons)
Every published course in the Petronella Training Academy, $14,767 in list prices, on the subscribing member's account for as long as the membership is active. Seats for more of your team are ordered separately through team training orders.
CMMC 2.0 Implementation Bootcamp (67 lessons)
Full Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification readiness curriculum, delivered via our Training Academy. L1 through L2 coverage including SSP drafting, POA&M construction, and audit evidence packaging.
39-Layer Cybersecurity Framework (54 lessons)
Petronella's signature sellable-framework curriculum. Use it as your own commercial framework with your regulated-SMB clients. Remix-rights included.
Template Library
SSP starters, POA&M templates, HIPAA policy packets, incident response runbooks, and compliance one-pagers. Plain-English editable docs, not paywalled PDFs.
Member Directory & Deal Referrals
A directory of member MSPs and a way to route deals you cannot serve to members with matching capacity. Until it ships, members can post those deals in the private member community.
Quarterly Compliance Briefings
Written analysis and a short explainer video covering what shifted in CMMC, HIPAA, NIST 800-171, and adjacent frameworks during the past quarter. Built from our autopilot content pipeline.
n8n Automation Templates
Pre-built workflows: ticket-to-SSP-evidence logging, quarterly risk-register refresh, client onboarding, POA&M tracking. Plug into your existing n8n or start fresh.
Private Member Community
A members-only forum at community.petronellatech.com for MSPs that serve regulated SMB clients. Membership is tied to your subscription and ends when it ends.
Monthly Group Webinar
One hour of live Q&A hosted by Craig Petronella. Tier 1, Tier 3, and Tier 4 members all attend the same monthly event. Recorded and archived.
How Stack Differs From the Free Petronella Partner Agreement
The free Petronella Partner agreement and the paid Stack membership answer two different questions. Many MSPs will want to know which one to start with, so here is the distinction in plain terms.
Petronella Partner: a commercial arrangement
The free partner agreement, covered at the top of this page, is about client deals. You refer a client for a 10% commission on the services revenue Petronella receives in the client's first 12 months, or you resell Petronella's services white label at a per-deal wholesale quote and set your own price. It costs nothing, has no purchase requirement, and runs for one year with automatic renewal unless either side gives 30 days' notice.
Petronella MSP Stack: a capability subscription
Stack is about your own team. It puts the full Petronella Training Academy catalog on the subscribing member's account, connects you to the private member community, and gives you the monthly live Q&A with Craig Petronella. It does not create client deals, and it is not required to become a Petronella Partner. It is training and community for an MSP that wants to build regulated-SMB capability in-house.
You can run both at once
The two are independent. An MSP can sign the free partner agreement and refer a CMMC client today with no subscription at all, and later add Stack when the owner wants the team trained on the same frameworks Petronella delivers. Nothing in the partner agreement requires a Stack membership, and nothing in Stack changes the partner terms: deal registrations, the 90-day protection window, and the two-business-day fit review all work the same for free partners and for Stack members.
Using the Catalog in the First 90 Days
A subscription is only worth the price if your team actually consumes it. Here is one way to sequence the material in your first 90 days after checkout delivers your Training Academy credentials.
Weeks 1 to 2: baseline the team
Have each technician start the 39-Layer Cybersecurity Framework course (54 lessons). It is the widest lens on the catalog and gives every technician shared vocabulary for the conversations that follow, from ticket triage on a regulated account to scoping a gap assessment. The catalog is on the member's own account.
Weeks 3 to 8: go deep on the deal in front of you
If a regulated client is already in your pipeline, put the technician closest to that account into the CMMC 2.0 Implementation Bootcamp (67 lessons). It covers L1 through L2 topics including SSP drafting, POA&M construction, and audit evidence packaging, which means the coursework maps to documents you will actually hand a client. Stack does not include a named CMMC-RP on your SOW; that is the co-signing add-on, priced from $1,500 per month per engagement on the pricing comparison page.
Weeks 9 to 12: build the sales story
By the third month, most of the value shifts from learning to selling. The framework gives you a named, structured methodology to present to regulated prospects instead of a generic security pitch. Bring the specific objections you hear into the monthly live Q&A with Craig Petronella and the private member community, and use the quarterly compliance briefings to keep your client-facing language current with what changed in CMMC, HIPAA, and NIST 800-171 during the quarter.
Remember the licensing shape: the catalog belongs to the subscribing member's account. To run the same curriculum across your technicians, order seats through team training orders. Five of the forensics courses carry North Carolina Private Protective Services Board continuing-education codes PPSB-25-019 through PPSB-25-023, which matters if your state reporting accepts PPSB-coded coursework.
What to Evaluate Before You Subscribe
Stack is month-to-month with no setup fee, so the commitment risk is one month. Still, an honest evaluation takes twenty minutes and should cover the five points below.
- Count the delivered items, not the promises. The What's Included grid on this page labels each item "Available at checkout" or "In development". The template library, the member directory and deal routing, and the n8n automation templates are still being built. If your purchase decision depends on a specific in-development item, wait until it ships or ask us for its current status before you pay.
- Decide who the seat belongs to. Stack grants the 35 courses and 779 lessons to the subscribing member's account. If your plan is to train four technicians, either budget the team training order or have the owner take the courses and run internal lunch-and-learns from them.
- Check the fit signals. The Who This Is For list above describes the MSP Stack was built for: roughly $300K to $1.5M in revenue with a regulated-SMB client or a regulated deal in the pipeline. If you are an $8M MSP, the Operator Council is the peer group designed for you, and Stack will feel small.
- Read the refund terms before checkout. All fees are non-refundable. Month-to-month cancellation stops future charges; past charges stand. Stripe checkout requires a checkbox agreeing to these terms before payment, and the same terms are summarized in the notice near the bottom of this page.
- Know your alternative path. If your goal is revenue from client deals rather than internal training, the free Petronella Partner agreement costs nothing and starts the referral or white-label motion immediately. The same application form routes to both, so you can start free and add Stack later.
Who This Is For
Petronella MSP Stack is built for MSPs that fit one or more of the signals below. If none apply, other tiers in the ladder may fit better.
- MSP with $300K to $1.5M in annual revenue and at least one regulated-SMB client (defense, healthcare, legal, financial).
- MSP actively chasing a regulated-SMB account but lacking CMMC-RP or HIPAA credentials in-house.
- MSP owner who wants a sellable framework (39-Layer) to differentiate from MSPs selling commodity IT.
- MSP willing to invest in async curriculum versus waiting for a bootcamp cohort to form.
- MSP that values a peer-led deal-flow network over high-pressure mastermind models.
Why Petronella Technology Group
Five real credentials. Zero fabrication.
Operating Since 2002
Founded 2002 in Raleigh, NC. BBB A+ since 2003. One of the longest-tenured independent MSPs in the Southeast.
4 CMMC-RP Engineers
Craig Petronella plus Blake Rea, Justin Summers, and Jonathan Wood - all hold CMMC-RP. Partner engagements are staffed from the CMMC Registered Practitioner Team.
Digital Forensic Examiner
Craig holds DFE #604180 plus CCNA and CWNE. Forensics work feeds the incident-response curriculum in the Stack.
Private AI Fleet
Used for Tier 2 prototyping engagements - never rented multi-tenant. Demonstrates that the compliance-plus-AI thesis is not theoretical.
NC PPSB CE-Approved Courses
Five digital forensics courses in the Petronella Training Academy carry North Carolina Private Protective Services Board continuing-education codes PPSB-25-019 through PPSB-25-023.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Where Stack Members Go Deeper
MSP Stack gives you the curriculum and templates. These vertical deep-dives show how partners apply them to specific client engagements.
Private AI Solutions
How MSPs resell private AI to regulated clients using Petronella Fleet prototyping. Revenue model, common mistakes, and the services-only delivery path.
CMMC Compliance
How MSPs deliver CMMC Level 2 to defense clients. AT-2/AT-3 training moat, gap assessments, and the four CMMC-RP bench available through Fleet engagements.
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