BrightGauge
👤 Brian & Eric Dosal (Brian and Eric Dosal grew their family's MSP to $8.8M ARR first — so they knew the exact pain and the buyers.)🌐 sitestrety.comLinkedIn
Two brothers turned their MSP's internal dashboard into a tool 1,800 MSPs paid for — then sold it to ConnectWise.
Will it work? · our read
Bootstrapped exit. MSP insiders built the reporting layer their peers needed, bootstrapped it to about $10M ARR, then sold to the platform vendor whose data it visualized.
01How the money moves
MSP links ConnectWise, Autotask & RMM data
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BrightGauge turns it into dashboards + client reports
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MSP pays a monthly per-seat subscription
02The numbers
about $10M ARRStated2019 exit · bootstrapped
2019
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Brian Dosal was the founder and CEO of BrightGauge, a software company he bootstrapped and grew to almost $10M ARR with his brother before successfully selling the company in 2019. BrightGauge was a…
The about-$10M ARR is founder-stated; the 1,800-MSP count is from acquisition-era trade press.
About $10M ARR at 2019 exit; bootstrapped, $0 raised.
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Practical Founders podcast — Brian Dosal (founder): bootstrapped to almost $10M ARRRefresh Miami — the BrightGauge journey: 35 staff, 50% growth, $3M team bonusesChannelE2E — Continuum acquires BrightGauge (about 1,800 MSPs)Latka — BrightGauge: $0 raised (bootstrapped)ConnectWise — BrightGauge now ships as Reports & Dashboards
Revenue is founder-stated: Brian Dosal says BrightGauge bootstrapped to almost $10M ARR before its 2019 sale (Practical Founders); Latka confirms $0 raised. The about-1,800-MSP figure is acquisition-era trade press (ChannelE2E), not first-party. BrightGauge was acquired by Continuum in 2019 and now ships inside ConnectWise as Reports & Dashboards, so no current standalone revenue is reported. The platform-dependency risk in "dies" is [our read]; the acquisition and $3M team bonuses are documented. No drama invented. We never score you.