Firm profile
Thrive
Thrive was named in 2 of the 16 managed IT service providers questions measured by The Shortlist Report, appearing in 131 of the 557 AI responses sampled across those questions (23.5%).
Thrive is strongest on “What are the best managed IT service providers?”, where it was named in 120 of 322 responses (37.3%), placing it in tier 4 of that report.
What Thrive is surfaced for in managed IT service providers
Based on the measured answers, Thrive is most likely to be surfaced when buyers ask about “What are the best managed IT service providers?” and “Who handles backup, disaster recovery and ransomware response?”.
How the answers describe the firmDelivers managed IT, cloud, and cybersecurity services to mid-market and enterprise organizations.
In this sample, Thrive was named on 2 of the 15 managed IT service providers ranking questions measured. These are the buyer questions where it appeared most often:
- Managed it service providers — named in 120 of 322 responses (37.3%), tier 4.
- MSP backup and ransomware recovery — named in 11 of 235 responses (4.7%), tier 2.
This describes when the firm is surfaced, not whether it is the right firm to hire. The sample measures recommendation visibility, not client outcomes.
Every question in managed IT service providers
Thrive was named on 2 of these 15 ranking questions. The rest are questions buyers ask that it did not come up for — with whoever did.
Who leads managed IT service providers overall: Accenture tops 2 of 15 · Integris tops 2 of 15 · Arctic Wolf tops 1 of 15 · Buchanan Technologies tops 1 of 15 · Click One MSP tops 1 of 15 · Dataprise tops 1 of 15. See all reports.
Where Thrive was named
| Question | Tier | Responses | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| What are the best managed IT service providers? | 4 | 120 of 322 | 37.3% | |
| Who handles backup, disaster recovery and ransomware response? | 2 | 11 of 235 | 4.7% |
What Thrive gets named for
Across the 16 managed IT service providers questions measured, Thrive is named most often on “What are the best managed IT service providers?” — it appears in 120 of the 322 ChatGPT responses to that question, or 37.3% of them. Its next strongest question is “Who handles backup, disaster recovery and ransomware response?”, where it appears in 11 of 235 responses (4.7%).
Thrive clears the reporting threshold on 2 of the 16 questions. The spread matters as much as the peak: a firm named across several different questions is one an assistant reaches for generally, where a firm named on one is attached to a single specialism.
What Thrive’s tier placings mean
On “What are the best managed IT service providers?”, Thrive sits in tier 4 of 5, named in 120 of 322 responses (37.3%). That places it below the leading group on this question, where the top firm was named in 61.5% of responses against Thrive’s 37.3%. It shares tier 4 with IBM, Rackspace, SHI, HCLTech and Dataprise, which the sample cannot separate from it. 4 further firms were named on this question but fell into lower tiers, meaning the sample did separate Thrive from them.
On “Who handles backup, disaster recovery and ransomware response?”, Thrive sits in tier 2 of 2, named in 11 of 235 responses (4.7%). That places it below the leading group on this question, where the top firm was named in 14.0% of responses against Thrive’s 4.7%. It shares tier 2 with Vortex, SAVIC Technologies, TierPoint, Agility Recovery, Ntiva and PCS Managed Services, which the sample cannot separate from it.
Firms named alongside Thrive
When ChatGPT names Thrive, these firms most often turn up on the same questions: IBM (2 shared questions) and Ntiva (2 shared questions).
That overlap is the closest thing this data holds to a shortlist: these are the firms a buyer asking the same questions is most likely to see beside Thrive. It says nothing about which of them is the better fit.
What this page is, and is not
- It is a count of how often AI assistants named Thrive when asked buyer questions about managed IT service providers. Nothing here is a review, a rating, or an assessment of the firm’s work.
- Thrive did not submit this listing, was not contacted about it, and cannot pay to change it, move up, or be removed.
- A firm named in few responses may still be excellent. Share follows what has been published about a firm online, which is what an AI assistant reads.
- Wrong details, or a firm merged with another of a similar name? We fix those.