If you're a business advisor, consultant, fractional executive, systems integrator, agency owner, or someone who advises senior leaders, joining the major AI partner networks should be on your roadmap. Your clients are asking questions about AI strategy, adoption, governance, security, and implementation. Having direct access to an LLM's partner ecosystem gives you more than a logo. You gain access to: • Partner training and enablement • Technical resources • Certifications and badges • Product updates • Partner communications • Opportunities to collaborate • A deeper understanding of how the platform is evolving Whether you work with SMBs or Fortune 500 companies, staying close to the companies building foundation models helps you give better advice and make more informed recommendations. Today I officially joined the @OpenAI Partner Network, and I'm looking forward to sharing what I learn along the way. If you're building an AI consulting practice or advising businesses on AI, this is becoming table stakes. What are you waiting for? Start applying to the partner programs that align with your business and begin building your expertise today. #AI #jenmccready #tech

Matt Yanchyshyn, the VP of @awscloud Marketplace, just declared that agentic SaaS is the next massive enterprise growth market. This is Platform Shift Three. We are officially moving from software that humans manually operate to autonomous software systems executing complex business workflows by themselves. The channel is not ready. #AWS #Tech #AI #Agentic #News #JenMcCready Link to Substack article in comments.

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The most dangerous sentence in corporate right now: "We are monitoring the AI situation closely." Monitoring is not a strategy. It is a very expensive way to be late.

I spent 20 years inside partner programs at the largest tech companies in the world. The press release version and the real version are not the same story. I am here to tell the real one. Follow if that is the version you want.

You do not have to become a plumber. Look closely at the people telling you that is all that is left. Ask yourself why they are not plumbers.

3 career moves that will matter more in 2026 than any certification: 1. Know which parts of your job a human must still do 2. Tie everything you do to revenue or cost reduction 3. Build a point of view public enough that the right people can find you Most people are doing none of these.

There is no 2 to 3 hours a day version of success. Not in corporate. Not in content creation. Not in entrepreneurship. The people selling you that timeline are leaving out a decade of prior work or lying to sell a course. Both should make you put your credit card away.

70,000-150,000 people that do these jobs will be unemployed by end of 2027. Comment “SKILLS” and I’ll send you exactly what to build toward so you aren’t one of those people. #tech #AI #technews #careers

The most resilient people I have met in 20 years of corporate and entrepreneurship are women. Not because life was easier for them. Because it was not. And they built anyway.

My mentor said something I think about constantly. "The people who survive every industry shift are not the smartest ones in the room. They are the ones who decided what they stood for before the shift happened." Decide now. While you still have time to choose.

Let me say the quiet part out loud. Men over 40 are leading the layoffs at tech companies right now. Women over 40 are the ones disproportionately losing their jobs. That is not a restructuring story. That is a gender and age discrimination story dressed up in business language. And the people with the power to change it are the ones benefiting from the current version. Is anyone in your organization having this conversation honestly? #TechLeadership

The highest paid people in tech partnerships can do three things simultaneously that almost nobody else can. Most candidates have one. Some have two. The ones who have all three are making $160K to $200K+ and companies are not letting them go. Full breakdown in this week's Under The Influence. Link in bio.

5 things that make a partner irreplaceable in 2026: 1. Customer trust that took years to build 2. Domain expertise AI cannot replicate 3. The ability to walk into an executive room and change the conversation 4. Revenue you can actually trace back to them 5. Relationships your company does not have without them If your top partners cannot claim most of these you have a vulnerability problem not a partner problem.

You cannot take someone else's blueprint and build your own business. The best you will get is a newer version of their business. Build your own or stay confused about why their system is not working for you.

You can beat 99% of people in partner ecosystems by doing one thing. Knowing which partnerships to deepen and which ones to transition before your company forces the conversation. Proactive is a strategy. Reactive is a surprise.

You cannot take someone else's blueprint and build your own business with it. The best you will get is a newer version of their business. The people selling you their exact system, their 1-2-3 steps, their path to a million followers, they built that on their specific story, their specific audience, their specific timing. None of that transfers. The framework can inspire you. The blueprint cannot be yours. Build your own.

3 things that actually predict partnership success: 1. Someone owns the relationship when the deal goes sideways 2. Revenue is traced to the partner not just influenced by them 3. The program was designed for the partners they have now not the ones they had in 2018 Most programs fail at all three.

Partner ecosystems are worth trillions in global revenue. And almost none of the people building them are talking publicly about what AI is doing to them. That silence is the gap I write into every week.

Working in corporate is so much easier than running your own business. Anyone saying otherwise either had funding or forgot what a salary felt like. Both paths are hard. Stop pretending one is the escape from the other.