Managed IT · Co-Managed IT Services

Co-Managed IT Services

Keep your IT team and the institutional knowledge that comes with it — and add the coverage, tooling, and specialist depth that are unreasonable to hire for. We work as a second shift and a bench, under a boundary you define.

80 / 20

Our answer standard: 80% of help-desk calls answered by a live engineer within 20 seconds

70–75%

First-contact resolution target — most issues finished on the first call

24×7×365

Coverage that doesn't stop at 5pm, on holidays, or while your team is on leave

What is co-managed IT?

Co-managed IT is a shared model: your in-house team keeps ownership of the systems and the business relationships, and an external provider supplies the coverage, tooling, and specialist skills around them. Responsibilities are split deliberately and written down, rather than duplicated or assumed.

Your team keeps the business context

Nobody outside your company understands your applications, your users, and your priorities the way your own IT staff does. Co-managed keeps that knowledge in place and stops it walking out the door when one person resigns.

  • Your team stays the owner of record
  • We work to your standards and change process
  • No forced tool replacement or re-platforming

We supply what's unreasonable to hire

Overnight and weekend coverage, a security operation, and specialists in cloud, network, and identity are expensive to staff for a single company. Shared across many, they're affordable for all of them.

  • 24×7×365 help desk and monitoring
  • SOC analysts, cloud and network engineers on call
  • Enterprise tooling without per-seat capital cost

The boundary is explicit

Before anything starts, we agree in writing who owns what: which queues we take, which systems we touch, what we escalate, and what we never change without your approval. Ambiguity is what makes co-managed fail.

  • Written responsibility matrix per system
  • Named contacts on both sides
  • Change approval rules agreed up front

It flexes as your team changes

Coverage can expand during a hiring gap, a migration, or parental leave, then step back when your team is whole again. The model is designed to move, not to lock you into one shape.

  • Scale up for projects and gaps
  • Scale down without renegotiating everything
  • Take-back of any function on notice

Where the line usually sits

Most co-managed relationships divide along the same seams. These are the ones our customers pick most often — combined in whatever way suits your team.

After-hours and weekend cover

Your team runs business hours; we take nights, weekends, and holidays with the same tooling and documentation, so tickets don't restart when they hand over.

Tier-1 overflow

Password resets, onboarding, and routine requests come to us so your engineers get uninterrupted time for projects and the work only they can do.

Security operations

A 24×7 SOC watching endpoints, identity, network, and cloud, with containment under playbooks you approve — the function that most in-house teams cannot staff around the clock.

Specialist depth on demand

Cloud architecture, network design, identity, and compliance expertise available when a project needs it, instead of a permanent hire you only need twice a year.

Tooling and licensing

Monitoring, patching, backup, and ITSM platforms included and operated — tools your team gets to use directly, not a black box we keep to ourselves.

Documentation and standards

The runbooks, diagrams, and asset records most internal teams never get time to write, maintained as part of the service and owned by you.

Our service standards

The numbers we hold ourselves to, measured and reported to you each period rather than quoted once during a sales call.

Average speed of answer — 80/20

80% of inbound help-desk calls are answered by a live engineer within 20 seconds. Not an auto-attendant, not a callback queue: a person who can start work on the problem.

First-contact resolution — 70–75%

Roughly three in four issues are resolved on the first contact, without a callback or a second engineer. It's the single best measure of whether a desk is actually staffed by people who can fix things.

Service availability — 99.95%

For the services and platforms we operate on your behalf. Transport-level SLAs for connectivity and SD-WAN are stated separately on those pages, because they measure a different thing.

What your team gets access to

Co-managed means shared tooling, not a curtain. Your engineers work in the same systems we do.

Monitoring and RMM

Device health, patch status, and alerting across endpoints and servers, visible to your team with the same detail we see.

Security operations platform

Detections, investigations, and response actions from our SIEM and 24×7 SOC, with the evidence trail attached to every case.

Backup and recovery

Immutable backup with tested restores and documented recovery points, reported rather than assumed.

Ticketing and reporting

One queue both teams work, with volume, backlog age, ASA, FCR, SLA attainment, and reopen rates in every report.

How a co-managed engagement starts

Four weeks is typical from first conversation to full coverage, and nothing moves until the boundary is agreed.

1

Assessment

We review your environment, ticket history, and tooling with your IT lead — and identify the gaps worth closing rather than the ones that sell the most hours.

2

Agree the boundary

A written responsibility matrix: which queues and systems we take, what we escalate, what needs your approval, and who is named on both sides.

3

Onboard

Tooling deployed, documentation built, runbooks written with your team, and a pilot period on a subset of queues before anything is switched over fully.

4

Run and review

24×7 operations with monthly reporting against ASA, FCR, and SLA attainment, plus a quarterly review with your IT lead to adjust the split as your team changes.

Compliance your co-managed team supports

Shared operations still have to produce single, coherent evidence. We work inside the frameworks you're held to.

SOC 2
ISO 27001
HIPAA
PCI DSS
CMMC 2.0 / NIST 800-171
CCPA / CPRA
GDPR
Cyber-insurance controls

Frequently asked questions

What is co-managed IT?

Co-managed IT is a shared support model: your in-house IT team keeps ownership of systems and business relationships, while an external provider adds coverage, tooling, and specialist skills around them. The split of responsibilities is agreed in writing, so both sides know exactly what they own.

How is co-managed different from fully managed IT?

In fully managed IT, the provider owns the whole function. In co-managed, your team stays in charge and we fill specific gaps — after-hours coverage, tier-1 overflow, security operations, or specialist projects. The tooling and reporting are the same; what differs is who holds the pen.

Are you trying to replace our IT team?

No, and a co-managed engagement that quietly heads that way isn't working as designed. Our customers use this model to keep people they value while removing the parts of the job that burn them out — 3am alerts, holiday cover, and work that needs a specialist they'd rather not hire full time.

Do we have to change the tools we already use?

Usually not. We work in your existing stack wherever it's sound and add ours where there's a gap, and your engineers get full access to anything we bring. Where we do recommend a change, it comes with the reason and the cost, and it's your decision.

How is co-managed IT priced?

Per user or per device for the ongoing coverage, with any project work quoted separately and agreed in advance. Pricing follows the scope in the responsibility matrix, so it changes only when the scope does — there's no per-incident billing that punishes you for a bad month.

What service levels do you commit to?

80% of calls answered by a live engineer within 20 seconds, a first-contact resolution target of 70–75%, and 99.95% availability for the services we operate. Response and escalation targets for incidents are set by severity in the agreement, and every figure is reported to you each period.

Built for regulated, audited environments

We deliver the controls and evidence that make your audits possible — hardening and operating practices aligned to the frameworks your assessors and customers recognize.

SOC 2
ISO 27001
HIPAA
PCI DSS
CIS Controls
NIST CSF
GDPR

Co-Managed IT for your environment

Tell us your stack and priorities — we return scope, ownership, and a plan.