Small Business IT Support
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Small business IT support is the work of setting up and maintaining the technology a business runs on — email and accounts, devices, networks, cloud storage, backups, and security — done by an outside team so the business gets reliable IT without hiring internal staff for it.
In most small businesses, IT grew by accident: accounts created as needed, devices bought one at a time, Wi-Fi from whoever set it up last. It works until someone is locked out, a laptop dies with the only copy of something, or a key employee leaves with half the passwords.
Nobody owns it. IT is handled by whoever is least busy or least afraid of computers, which means problems get patched rather than fixed, and the same outage happens twice.
Security is the quiet risk: shared logins, no MFA, ex-employees with live access, and no tested backup. None of it hurts until the day it really hurts.
We start with an inventory of what you actually have — accounts, devices, domains, subscriptions, network gear — and fix the foundations: email and domain setup done right, user accounts with sensible permissions, MFA everywhere it matters, and a backup plan that's actually been tested.
Then we handle the day-to-day: device setup, software troubleshooting, cloud storage organization, network support, and the onboarding/offboarding checklist that means a new hire is productive on day one and a departing one loses access the same day.
Everything gets written down — documentation and SOPs your next hire can follow — and we recommend vendors and tools on merit. We don't take reseller kickbacks, so when we say a tool is right for you, that's the whole reason.
- ▸A growing business migrating from a tangle of personal Gmail accounts to a properly configured Google Workspace with shared drives and clean permissions
- ▸An office where offboarding meant 'hope for the best,' replaced with a documented checklist covering accounts, devices, and access
- ▸A company that discovered its 'backup' hadn't run in months — replaced with monitored, tested backups and a written recovery procedure
- ▸A small operations team getting MFA, a password manager, and access reviews rolled out without grinding work to a halt
- ▸A business choosing between three software vendors, with us as the technical second opinion in the room
Inventory ──▶ Foundations ──▶ Day-to-day ──▶ Documentation accounts email/domain devices SOPs + runbooks devices permissions network on/offboarding subscriptions MFA + backups troubleshooting access reviews
- ·The inventory comes first — you can't secure or support what you haven't listed.
- ·Fixes are itemized and prioritized; you see what's being done and why.
- ·Documentation is the deliverable that outlasts us — your IT stops being tribal knowledge.
Is this a managed service contract?
It can be, but it doesn't have to be. Plenty of clients start with a one-time cleanup project — inventory, fixes, documentation — and only add ongoing support if they want it. We don't sell retainers we can't justify.
We only have a handful of employees. Is this overkill?
No — small teams are exactly who this is for. The setup work is proportional to your size, and the payoff (no lockouts, working backups, fast onboarding) matters more when there's no IT person to call.
Can you work with what we already have?
Yes. The default is to keep what works. The inventory and audit tell us what to keep, what to fix, and what to retire — we don't rip and replace to pad a project.
Do you handle phones too?
Yes — VoIP and business phone systems are their own service line, and they pair naturally with IT cleanup since the accounts, network, and vendors overlap.
What about security?
We cover the hygiene layer that prevents most small-business incidents: MFA, password managers, access reviews, offboarding discipline, patched devices, and tested backups. For specialized compliance or incident response, we'll say so plainly and help you find the right specialist.