{"id":1640,"date":"2026-07-25T06:18:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T11:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cmitsolutions.com\/greenville-sc-1006\/?p=1640"},"modified":"2026-07-27T06:32:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T11:32:17","slug":"helm-of-glory-how-john-and-elizabeth-boyette-won-the-great-ai-odyssey-with-augur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cmitsolutions.com\/greenville-sc-1006\/blog\/helm-of-glory-how-john-and-elizabeth-boyette-won-the-great-ai-odyssey-with-augur\/","title":{"rendered":"Helm of Glory: How John and Elizabeth Boyette Won The Great AI Odyssey with “Augur”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Twenty-four hours after receiving the same prompt as their closest regional competitor, John and Elizabeth Boyette stood in front of a room of MSP peers and industry judges and won the whole thing walking away with a $500 innovation grant, a trophy called the Helm of Glory, and a concept, Augur, that reframes what a managed service provider can actually be for a client.<\/span><\/p>\n

24 hours to build \u00b7 2 teams \u00b7 $500 grant \u00b7 1 Helm of Glory \u00b7 11 years in the Forerunners network<\/b><\/p>\n

\ud83c\udfa7 <\/span>Related listen:<\/b> Want the full Boyette story first? Hear John and Elizabeth tell it in their own words on <\/span>Communication First: The Husband-and-Wife Team Behind CMIT Greenville<\/span><\/i> \u00a0<\/span>Listen on pod.co \u2192<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

THE STORY<\/b><\/p>\n

A trophy for a philosophy they already lived by<\/b><\/h2>\n

Every so often, a competition comes along that doesn’t just test a skill it validates a way of working that’s already been quietly proving itself for years. That’s what happened when John and Elizabeth Boyette, competing as Team Blackwatch Sky, won The Great AI Odyssey, an AI innovation bakeoff hosted by Channel Collab.<\/p>\n

The premise was simple to describe and brutal to execute: two teams, one identical business challenge, twenty-four hours on the clock, and a live presentation in front of a panel of industry judges at the end. No weeks of preparation. No polished decks refined over a dozen internal reviews. Just raw thinking, real collaboration, and whatever a team could build between one Wednesday afternoon and the next.<\/span><\/p>\n

John and Elizabeth’s answer to that challenge was Augur, a concept for how MSPs can use AI to see a client’s needs coming before the client ever notices them. It won. And the story of how it came together says almost as much about the Boyettes’ partnership as it does about artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n

Key takeaways<\/b><\/h3>\n