Intelisys named Pisteyo its Top Engineering Team at Channel Connect 2026 on Tuesday night in Austin.
Most awards are decided by a panel reading submissions.
This one was shaped by the people who put their own client relationships on the line for us.
What happened at Channel Connect 2026?
On November 3, Intelisys, a ScanSource company, presented its supplier awards at the Channel Connect Awards Dinner in Austin, Texas. Winners were chosen using feedback from the Intelisys partner community, weighed against growth, innovation, channel focus, and support.
We took home Top Engineering Team.
If you’re not familiar with Intelisys, they are a technology services distributor. Their network of advisors, MSPs, and systems integrators help businesses evaluate, buy, and implement technology. Channel Connect is their annual gathering of suppliers and top-performing partners.
Being named the top engineering team in that room demonstrates that AI is no longer just a conversation topic. It’s a deliverable, and Pisteyo’s the team that can deliver it.
We sell AI strategy and the execution behind it.
Why does it matter who weighed in?
Because a referral partner has more to lose than a judge.
When an Intelisys partner brings us into a client's AI conversation, they are lending us trust they spent years earning. If we scope badly, overpromise, or vanish once the roadmap is done, the partner wears it.
That is our first job. Be worth the introduction.
What did the award measure?
Four things: growth, innovation, channel focus, and support. Here is what each looks like from the partner's chair and from yours.
| Factor | What a partner sees | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Growth | The accounts we win with you turn into the next introduction, and the one after that | New AI revenue from accounts you already own, and repeat engagements that turn one referral into a recurring pipeline |
| Innovation | New capability, not new slides: agents, data enablement, Innovation Labs, products | You put proven capability in front of clients instead of experiments, so your name is never attached to a stalled pilot |
| Channel focus | A channel-first firm that brings credibility from proven results, and speaks executive language from the first meeting | A partner who bridges your technology and the client’s executive team, so the conversation moves from features to business outcomes and deals get approved faster |
| Support | Engineers who answer when something breaks in production | Clients stay live and confident, and every engagement ends with you as the partner who made AI actually work |
Our Pisteyo Innovation Labs built Leonidus, a compliance platform that scans every code commit, and Zandy, the sales and marketing platform behind our own CRM and the assistant on our website. We run our own tools every day.
What does an engineering award mean for a consulting firm?
We describe ourselves as a management consulting firm built by former operators. Intelisys called us an engineering team. Both are true, and the pairing is the point: most AI projects stall between the plan and the build.
Strategy without engineering is a roadmap nobody ships. Engineering without strategy makes a bad process faster.
Every engagement runs on two frameworks. SCALE℠ is the five pillars that create the conditions. PROPEL℠ is the six steps that turn them into outcomes.
Engineering is the part that is not always glamorous. It is acceptance criteria set before the build, proof that it works and creates value before it expands, and a handoff with training, documentation, and governance. It is also the part a partner's client remembers.
What changes at Pisteyo now?
Very little, and that is the point. The next morning's standups looked like any other day's. The claims engine for a healthcare client is still in delivery. The phone agents are still answering calls.
Thank you to Intelisys and ScanSource for the recognition and a great night in Austin, and to the partners who put their names next to ours.
And to our engineers in the US, Bogotá, and Hyderabad: you build the unglamorous half, you pick up when something breaks in production, and your work is what a client remembers. This one is yours.
Now, back to work
The record gets a shelf. The work does not wait for it.
To see what the half that ships looks like, give us a shout!