Managed IT

Your IT team, extended.

For businesses with no IT department who need one, and IT departments that need depth behind them.

The cost of IT that only reacts

In most growing businesses, IT support starts informally — whoever is most technical becomes the unofficial administrator, alongside their actual job. It works until the day something serious breaks and nobody knows where the backups are, who holds the domain, or what the server password is.

Managed IT replaces that arrangement with something defined: a support route staff can use, systems that are monitored and patched, documentation that survives an individual leaving, and someone accountable for the whole environment rather than for individual incidents.

Managed IT services

01 IT Support

Day-to-day support for staff and systems, with a defined route to reach an engineer and agreed response expectations.

  • Helpdesk
  • Users
  • Response SLA
02 Outsourced IT

A complete IT function for organisations that do not want to build one internally — strategy, operations and support.

  • Full function
  • Strategy
03 Remote Support

Most issues resolved remotely within minutes, without waiting for someone to travel to your office.

  • Remote
  • Fast resolution
04 On-Site Support

Engineers attending in person when hardware, cabling or network faults genuinely need hands on the equipment.

  • On-site
  • Hardware
05 Server Management

Windows and Linux administration — patching, backup verification, capacity, performance and access control.

  • Windows
  • Linux
  • Patching
06 Network Management

Switching, routing, firewalls and Wi-Fi kept configured, documented and monitored rather than quietly drifting.

  • Switching
  • Firewall
  • Wi-Fi
07 Monitoring

Continuous checks on servers, connectivity, storage and backup so faults surface before staff report them.

  • Alerting
  • Proactive
08 Patch Management

Operating system and application updates applied on schedule, tested where it matters, and tracked for compliance.

  • Updates
  • Compliance
09 Helpdesk

A single point of contact with ticket history retained per user, rather than requests scattered across personal messages.

  • Tickets
  • History

What changes in the first month

Before anything is replaced, everything gets documented.

We start with discovery, because you cannot support what nobody has written down. That means an inventory of servers, endpoints, network equipment, licences, domains, DNS, backups and administrative accounts — including the ones nobody remembers creating.

That process routinely surfaces the same findings: backups that have been failing silently, systems running unsupported software, administrative credentials shared between people, and at least one service still owned by a former employee.

  • Full inventory of hardware, software, licences and accounts.
  • Backup verification — testing whether restores actually work.
  • Access review — who holds administrative rights, and who should.
  • Risk list prioritised by likelihood and business impact.
  • Documentation handed to you, not retained as leverage.

Two ways to work with us

Managed IT is not all-or-nothing.

Full outsourced IT

We are your IT department. Support, infrastructure, security, procurement advice and planning — a complete function without recruitment.

Co-managed IT

Your internal team keeps ownership and we provide depth — out-of-hours cover, specialist projects, escalation, or the platforms they would rather not run.

Defined scope, either way

What is included, response expectations, and what sits outside the agreement are written down before we start rather than discovered during an incident.

Managed IT questions

Do you replace our internal IT person?
Usually we work alongside them. Internal staff know your business and your people; we bring specialist depth across infrastructure, security, voice and cloud, plus cover when they are away. Where there is no internal capability, we can provide the whole function.
What is included, and what is not?
That is agreed in writing before we start — which systems and users are covered, response expectations, what counts as a project rather than support, and how out-of-hours is handled. Ambiguity here is the main reason these relationships sour.
Can you support systems another provider built?
Yes, and it is common. We review the environment first so we understand what we are taking on, agree anything that must be corrected before we accept responsibility, then transition it.
What about out-of-hours?
Monitoring runs continuously, and alerts are raised automatically. The response arrangement outside business hours — and its cost — is defined in your agreement rather than left to goodwill.

IT running on goodwill and guesswork?

Start with a review of what you have. You'll get a documented picture and a prioritised list, whatever you decide afterwards.