Battle-Tested. Not Launched Overnight.
Three years of building, six months of rigorous pilot testing with real MSPs, and an independent penetration test come before we call Controvo generally available on August 1.
Software Can Appear Overnight Now. Trust Can't.
Building software has never been faster. A polished product can show up in a weekend, complete with a landing page, a feature grid, and a blog. Some of it is even good. But when a platform holds the credentials to every phone system you manage, "it looks finished" is not the bar.
The bar is what can't be generated: real MSPs running real fleets on it for months, a public release history you can scroll, an independent security firm that tested it, and a team that fixed what the testers found.
This page is Controvo's receipts. Every claim below links to something you can check.
How Controvo Earned Its Launch
From internal tool to general availability, in the order it actually happened.
2023
Born on our own fleet
Controvo started as the internal tool of a Platinum 3CX partner managing hundreds of phone systems and thousands of extensions. Before it had a name, it had production traffic.
2024
From internal tool to community product
After a year of running it ourselves, we shifted gears and began rebuilding Controvo as a platform for the whole 3CX reseller community.
January 2025
Public release notes begin
We started publishing release notes every month and have not missed one since. Eighteen months of shipped work, in public, before the first paying customer. Read the release notes →
November 2025
The pilot opens, capped at 20 partners
We invited real MSPs to run their real fleets on Controvo, free, in exchange for honest feedback. Capped at twenty so every partner had a direct Slack line to the team. The announcement post →
February 2026
Alpha graduates to pilot production
Partners moved from kicking the tires to running daily operations on the platform. Bug reports turned into fixes in days. Feature requests turned into weekly releases. What we built and what changed →
2026
Independent penetration test
A third-party penetration test performed by ISP Security. Identified findings were reviewed, remediated, and retested.
August 1, 2026
General availability
More than six months of rigorous pilot testing later, Controvo opens to everyone. Until then, pilot signups are still open: the original 20 spots filled, so we opened more. Get started →
What Six Months of Pilot Actually Bought
The pilot put twenty different fleets' worth of real-world 3CX through the product.
Bugs found by real fleets
Twenty partners' fleets exercised edge cases no test environment reproduces: odd trunk configurations, decade-old templates, systems mid-migration. Every one of those found a bug before a paying customer could.
Features shaped by partners
Pilot partners asked for bulk agent management, call-flow heat maps, and PNG exports for client reviews. Each one shipped in days. The full partner story →
A cadence you can verify
Weekly releases through the entire pilot, documented in public release notes going back to 2024. Scroll it yourself →
Tested by People Paid to Break It
A platform that connects to every phone system you manage should be tested by someone whose job is to get in. Before general availability, we hired one.
Independently Penetration Tested
Controvo has completed a third-party penetration test performed by ISP Security to help validate the security of the platform. Identified findings were reviewed, remediated, and retested as part of Controvo's ongoing commitment to protecting customer data.
The Short Version
- Three years in the making by a Platinum 3CX partner: a year running our own hundreds of systems, then a rebuild for the 3CX reseller community
- More than six months of rigorous pilot testing with 20 real MSP partners before general availability
- Independent third-party penetration test, with findings reviewed, remediated, and retested
- Eighteen months of public release notes that anyone can verify
What pilot partners are saying
From the partners who put it through the wringer
"So far, so amazing. We are loving the tool, and the updates you are doing blow me away."
"We're definitely moving forward after the Pilot is over. No question."
"God, you guys have a winner here. For people that do what I do every day, all day — this is a dream come true."
"I compiled a list of everything I'd want, and literally ticked off every single one before we even started."
"You guys are really changing the ability of providing 3CX for those who are doing it at scale and managing the systems, as opposed to the old model of just selling licenses. Fantastic!"
"We created the template functionality right away. Since then, I use them across all of our tenants. It saves me from creating the extension and then going back in to make adjustments — if I'm doing this for 10 or more people, it just kind of gets crazy."
"I've been providing SIP/VoIP based service for business clients since 2011. I've not seen a set of tools and resources like Controvo before now."
"We look at a lot of software, and most software is not that well thought out, to be perfectly honest. This looks like it really is. I'm pretty impressed."
Six Months of Testing. Zero of It Yours to Repeat.
The pilot partners did the hard part. Get your fleet onboarded and skip straight to the good part.