Co-Managed IT

Your IT team, with reinforcements that act like owners.

For companies with internal IT that is stretched across support and strategy: Ironguard takes real ownership of defined areas — with clear boundaries, decision rights, and zero vendor games.

When this fits

Good IT people, spread too thin.

Your IT lead is competent. That is exactly the problem: they are doing tier-one support, security, projects, procurement, and vendor wrangling at once, and the strategic work keeps losing to the urgent work. Hiring another admin does not fix that. Handing everything to a traditional MSP loses the internal knowledge you have already paid for.

Co-managed means we take full ownership of defined areas, and your team keeps full ownership of theirs. Not staff augmentation. Not “call us when you are stuck.” Owned lanes, in writing.

How the split works

Owned lanes, not blurry lines.

What Ironguard typically takes

Tier-one employee support and after-hours coverage. Patch and endpoint management. Microsoft 365 administration and security baseline. Documentation, monitoring, and the renewal calendar. Site launches and defined projects. Whatever lane we take, we own it end to end — including the 2 a.m. part.

What your team keeps

Business applications and internal knowledge. Strategy and budget authority. Whatever they are best at and want to keep. Your team also gets full visibility into everything we do: shared documentation, shared tooling access, no black boxes, and credentials that always belong to you.

The ground rules

Built to make your IT lead stronger, not smaller.

We work for the company, through its IT leadership — never around it. Escalations, documentation, and decisions run through a structure you approve. And everything we build is documented so thoroughly you could run it without us. That is what ownership means: the company owns its environment. We just take care of it.

Next step

Map the lanes in one working session.

Bring your IT lead. We will map what your team should keep, what needs a real owner, and where the gaps are today.

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