Your IT team, with backup
Your internal IT person should not be the single point of failure for the whole company. Co-managed IT pairs your team with our tools, monitoring, and engineers, so expertise, tooling, and escalations all stop being a bottleneck.
How it works
From first call to fully handled
No rip-and-replace projects. We meet your stack where it is.
Scope together
With your IT lead, we map who owns what: which alerts, which tickets, which projects. Co-managed fails when the split is fuzzy, so we make it explicit.
Deploy the toolkit
Our RMM, patching automation, and security stack roll out under shared visibility, your team gets the same console we use.
Operate as one team
Overflow tickets route to our desk, escalations reach senior engineers, projects get staffed jointly, and documentation stays shared.
Why it matters
One-person IT departments do not scale
Internal IT knows your business better than any outsider, but one or two people cannot cover every specialty, and the hiring market keeps getting harder. Projects stall while tickets pile up.
Co-managed splits the load cleanly: your team keeps ownership and the institutional knowledge, while we bring enterprise tooling, patching automation, and senior engineers to escalate to. Everyone does the work they are best at.
Your team
stays in charge, we amplify
24/7
automated monitoring and alerting
Bench
senior engineers on escalation
Tooling
enterprise RMM, patching, security stack
Co-managed IT vs fully managed IT: which fits your business?
Fully managed IT means you have no internal technology staff, so a provider owns everything: the help desk, the monitoring, the projects, and the strategy. Co-managed IT is the opposite starting point. You already have an in-house IT person or small team you trust, and you want to extend them rather than replace them. The dividing line is ownership. With fully managed, the provider holds the keys and the accountability. With co-managed, your lead keeps both, and we plug into the specific gaps they cannot cover alone, from after-hours monitoring to specialist escalations.
For a lot of Phoenix and Denver businesses, the honest answer is somewhere in between, and that is exactly what co-managed is built for. A 40-person firm with one sharp IT generalist does not need to fire that person and hand everything to an outsider, but it also cannot expect one human to patch every machine, answer every ticket, and run a server migration in the same week. Co-managed lets that generalist stay the face of IT while we carry the load they were never meant to lift solo. If you have nobody internal at all, fully managed is the cleaner fit, and we offer that too.
Inside the service
One shared console, your team and ours
Your IT lead stays in charge and sees exactly what we see: overflow tickets routed to our desk, stuck work escalated to senior engineers, and patching running on autopilot. No black boxes, no single point of failure.
- Overflow tickets routed to our desk
- Escalations reach senior engineers
- Patching automated and verified
31
Tickets your team owns
18
Overflow handled by us
6
Escalations resolved
97%
Patch compliance
What we offer
What we add beside your team
A menu, not a takeover: pick the coverage you need.
Enterprise Tooling
Our RMM, patching, and security stack deployed under your roof, without the license burden.
Help Desk Overflow
When tickets spike or your lead is heads-down on a project, overflow routes to our desk.
Escalation Engineering
Stuck tickets and gnarly projects escalate to our senior bench instead of a consultant search.
Patch & Update Automation
The boring, critical work runs on our automation and reporting.
Security Operations
ZeroTrust, EDR, and alert triage handled with your team in the loop.
Project Muscle
Migrations, office moves, and rollouts staffed jointly so they actually ship.
The difference
Solo internal IT vs co-managed
Why partner with Voipcom
A partner, not a replacement
- Your IT lead keeps ownership and credit
- Transparent shared documentation, no black boxes
- Flexible scope that grows or shrinks with your needs
- Local engineers who can show up on site
FAQ
Common questions
Is this a step toward replacing our IT person? +
No, the model only works long-term with your internal lead in charge. They keep ownership and institutional knowledge; we remove the single-point-of-failure risk and the tooling burden.
Who do employees call for help? +
Whatever split your lead wants: many keep day-to-day requests internal and route overflow to us; others hand us tier-1 entirely.
Can we use just part of the menu? +
Yes, some clients take only the toolkit and patching automation; others add security operations or project staffing. Scope grows or shrinks with you.
How is it priced? +
Custom, based on the coverage you choose and your seat count, quoted in writing after the scoping call with your IT lead.
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Give your IT team a bench
Bring your IT lead to the call. Co-managed only works when they love it, so we start there.