IT Desk · United States
Managed IT Services for Small and Mid-Sized Businesses in the US
Our managed IT services for small business give American companies a fixed monthly plan that covers the day-to-day running of their technology: help desk, device monitoring, patching, backup checks, user onboarding and security tooling. You choose Essential, Business or Enterprise depending on how much is included.
Monitoring software watches your devices and servers continuously, so an alert on a server in Atlanta lands in the same ticket queue as a request from a user in Denver. Support hours and response times are set out in your service agreement.
Plans are delivered fully remotely, priced in US dollars and billed monthly. You keep ownership of your accounts, licenses and data; we run them to an agreed standard and report on what we did. If you already have an IT manager, we can run the same service as co-managed IT, supplying the monitoring, patching and help desk support behind your own team.
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In short
What is a managed service provider (MSP)?
A managed service provider (MSP) is a company that runs a business's IT for a fixed monthly fee instead of being called only when something breaks. The MSP monitors devices, accounts, and the network continuously, fixes problems early, and keeps everything patched, secured, and backed up. TechPit Solutions delivers managed IT remotely, with support hours and response times set out in the service agreement.
- Best for businesses with no full-time IT person, or a single IT employee who needs backup cover and specialist help.
- Delivered remotely on a monthly per-user plan; onboarding starts with a discovery call and audit, and we give you a timeline after that call.
The problem
Without someone responsible for IT, updates get skipped, passwords get shared, backups are never tested, and the laptop that runs your business fails on the busiest day of the month.
What's included
What IT Desk does for you
Automation handles
- Device monitoring and alerts
- Operating system and app patching
- Backup checks and reports
- Licence and asset inventory
- Monthly health report
Our team handles
- Help desk for your staff
- Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace administration
- Security setup: multi-factor sign-in, email filtering, endpoint protection
- New starters and leavers: accounts, devices, access
- Network, firewall and Wi-Fi setup and changes
What an MSP does
Everything a good IT department does, without hiring one
Help desk for your staff
One place for every IT question: password resets, new laptops, printer problems, email issues. Staff contact us by email, WhatsApp or phone, and every request is logged and tracked to completion.
Proactive monitoring
Agents on every device and alerts on your network and cloud accounts tell us about failing disks, full storage, missed updates and suspicious sign-ins, usually before anyone notices a problem.
Patching and maintenance
Operating systems, browsers and business apps are updated on a schedule you approve, with testing first and a rollback plan if an update misbehaves.
Security and backups
Endpoint protection, email filtering, multi-factor sign-in and backups that we actually test by restoring files, so recovery works when you need it.
Users and licences
We handle joiners, movers and leavers: accounts, devices, permissions and licences, so access is right from day one and removed on the last day.
Planning and reporting
Monthly reports show what we fixed and what needs attention. Higher tiers add quarterly reviews and an IT roadmap tied to your budget.
Who it's for
A good fit if you recognise yourself here
- Businesses with roughly 5 to 250 staff and no full-time IT person
- Companies whose single IT employee needs backup cover and specialist help
- Firms that hold customer, patient or financial data and need security controls in place
- Teams spread across offices and homes who need one help desk for everyone
- Owners who want a predictable monthly IT cost instead of surprise bills
United States
Managed IT for businesses in the US
Meeting insurer expectations
US cyber insurers commonly ask about MFA, endpoint detection, patching cadence and backup isolation. A managed plan keeps those controls running and gives you current evidence at renewal time instead of a scramble.
Monitoring without night shifts
Hiring someone to watch systems outside office hours is out of reach for most small firms. Monitoring tools run continuously and log alerts on devices, backups and servers, even over Thanksgiving week, and the support hours our team works are set out in your service agreement.
Data kept in US cloud regions
We build and manage workloads in the US regions you select, such as AWS us-east-1 or Azure East US, so data residency choices stay with you and match what your contracts or customers expect.
Records for regulated sectors
Healthcare and financial-services clients get ticket histories, patch reports and access reviews that show safeguards were operated, which is useful material when an auditor, partner or insurer asks.
Plans
IT Desk plans
Essential
Help desk, monitoring and patching
From$39per user / month
Small teams that need a help desk and machines that stay patched and protected.
- Help desk for your staff during business hours
- Remote monitoring of laptops and desktops
- Operating system and app patching
- Managed antivirus on every device
- Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace administration
- Monthly health report
Business
RecommendedSecurity, backups and people changes included
From$69per user / month
Growing companies that hold customer data and can't afford downtime.
- Everything in Essential
- Endpoint detection and response (EDR) and email security
- Backup of email, files and key devices
- Network, firewall and Wi-Fi monitoring
- New starters and leavers: accounts, devices and access
- Quarterly review
Enterprise
Servers, cloud and disaster recovery
From$109per user / month
Multi-site or regulated businesses that need planning as well as support.
- Everything in Business
- Extended help desk hours, set out in your service agreement
- Server and cloud management (Azure, AWS)
- Disaster recovery plan with tested restores
- Monthly review with a named account manager
Prices are in USD per user, per month, with a 5-user minimum. Licences (Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, backup storage) are billed at cost or kept on your own accounts. Hardware, office moves and migrations are quoted separately, and a one-time onboarding fee is quoted after the assessment.
Compare what each plan includes
| Feature | Essential | Business | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Help desk for your staff during business hours | |||
| Remote monitoring of laptops and desktops | |||
| Operating system and app patching | |||
| Managed antivirus on every device | |||
| Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace administration | |||
| Monthly health report | |||
| Endpoint detection and response (EDR) and email security | – | ||
| Backup of email, files and key devices | – | ||
| Network, firewall and Wi-Fi monitoring | – | ||
| New starters and leavers: accounts, devices and access | – | ||
| Quarterly review | – | ||
| Extended help desk hours, set out in your service agreement | – | – | |
| Server and cloud management (Azure, AWS) | – | – | |
| Disaster recovery plan with tested restores | – | – | |
| Monthly review with a named account manager | – | – |
Cost calculator
Managed IT compared with your current IT cost
Include salary and benefits for IT staff, outside contractors, and monitoring, security and backup tools.
- Managed IT · 15 × $69
- $1,035
Add your current monthly IT cost to see the difference.
An estimate from published plan prices. Third-party licences and one-off projects are quoted separately.
Support terms
Support hours and response times, in writing
Support hours in writing
Help desk hours and response times are agreed in your service agreement before we start, by plan and by priority, so everyone knows exactly what is covered.
Monitoring that runs continuously
Monitoring tools watch your devices, accounts and network all the time and raise alerts for our team to act on. How urgent outages outside support hours are handled is agreed up front.
Priority handling
Outages affecting several people or a security alert jump the queue and stay with an engineer until resolved. Routine requests are worked in order and you're updated throughout.
Clear escalation
Every plan has a named escalation path. If a ticket isn't moving, you know who to contact and when you'll hear back.
Monitoring
What our monitoring watches
- Device health: disk, memory, CPU, battery and storage
- Missed patches and unsupported software
- Antivirus and EDR detections
- Risky or unusual sign-ins to Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace
- Firewall, internet link and Wi-Fi availability
- Backup job success and failures
Security and backups
Layered protection, tested recovery
Layered protection
Managed antivirus or EDR on every device, email filtering for phishing and malware, DNS filtering and secure configuration baselines.
Identity first
Multi-factor sign-in for every account, conditional access where your licences support it, and admin rights limited to the people who need them.
Backups you can restore
Cloud backup of Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace mail, files and Teams/Drive data, plus key devices and servers. We run test restores and report the results.
Incident response
If something gets through, we isolate the affected device, reset credentials, investigate and tell you exactly what happened and what we changed.
Data protection
Data-protection rules we help you work within in the US
California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), as amended by the CPRA
Applies to for-profit businesses that handle personal information of California residents and meet revenue or data-volume thresholds set in the law. Covered businesses must tell people what they collect, honor requests to access, delete, correct or opt out of the sale or sharing of their data, and use reasonable security. Many other states, including Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut and Texas, now have their own consumer privacy laws with different thresholds and rules.
How we help: We map where customer data lives across your apps and inboxes, tighten who can reach it, turn on MFA and encryption, and set up logging so data requests and incidents can be traced. Your attorney decides which state laws apply to you; we handle the technical side.
Official source ↗HIPAA Security Rule (healthcare)
Covered entities such as clinics, practices and health plans, plus the business associates that handle their data, must protect electronic protected health information with administrative, physical and technical safeguards. That starts with a documented risk analysis and includes access controls, audit controls and safeguards for data in transit.
How we help: We help practices put the technical safeguards in place: unique user accounts, MFA, encrypted laptops and email, audit logging, tested backups and device inventories. If our work would touch ePHI, a business associate agreement has to be in place before we start, and we support your risk analysis rather than replacing it.
Official source ↗FTC Safeguards Rule (financial-services firms)
Non-bank financial institutions such as mortgage brokers, tax preparers, auto dealers that offer financing and similar firms need a written information security program. The rule expects a named qualified individual, a risk assessment, MFA, encryption of customer information, staff training and, for certain breaches, notification to the FTC.
How we help: We deploy MFA across email and line-of-business apps, encrypt devices and file shares, set up monitoring and change logs, and draft the technical sections of your security program and incident runbook for your qualified individual to review and own.
Official source ↗
Onboarding
From first call to fully managed
- STEP 01
Discovery call
We learn how your business runs, which tools you use, who your staff are and what's causing pain today.
- STEP 02
Audit and documentation
We inventory devices, accounts, licences, network equipment and admin access, and document everything in one place you can see.
- STEP 03
Deploy and secure
We install monitoring and security agents, enable multi-factor sign-in, set up backups and fix the urgent risks we found.
- STEP 04
Go live and review
Your staff get the help desk details, and after the first month we review the tickets, alerts and report together.
Industries
Who we support
- Dental and medical practices
- Accounting and tax preparation firms
- Real estate and mortgage brokers
- Law firms
- E-commerce and DTC brands
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IT Desk vs in-house IT
How a managed provider compares
| TechPit IT Desk | In-house hire | |
|---|---|---|
| Coverage | Agreed support hours, with holidays and sick days covered by the team | One person's hours, unless you pay for on-call |
| Skills | A team covering support, networks, cloud and security | One or two people who can't know everything |
| Cost | Predictable monthly fee per user | Salary, benefits, training, tools and recruitment |
| Tools | Monitoring, security and backup platforms included | Bought and maintained separately |
| Scaling | Add or remove users month to month | Hire or let go |
| Knowledge risk | Everything documented and shared | Knowledge leaves when the person does |
Is a remote MSP a good fit for a US company with no IT staff?
For most offices that run on cloud email, laptops and SaaS apps, yes. Almost everything an in-house admin would do, from patching to user changes, can be done remotely and logged. Where you need hands on hardware, we coordinate with a local vendor of your choice.
How are your managed IT plans priced for American clients?
Plan prices are shown on this page in US dollars and billed monthly. The tier you pick sets what is covered, and we confirm the details in writing before anything starts.
Can your plan help with HIPAA or FTC Safeguards obligations?
We operate the technical controls those rules expect, such as MFA, encryption, logging and backups, and keep records of the work. We do not provide legal advice or certify compliance; your counsel or compliance lead makes those calls.
What happens to our systems if we end the contract?
Admin credentials, documentation and configuration notes are handed back to you during an agreed offboarding period. Your tenants and licenses were always in your name, so there is nothing to migrate away from us.
Do you support offices in more than one state under one plan?
Yes. Remote delivery means a team split between Texas, Illinois and California sits under one plan and one ticket queue, with the same service terms whichever office raised the issue.
What is the difference between fully managed and co-managed IT?
With fully managed IT we act as your whole IT department: help desk, monitoring, patching, backups and security. With co-managed IT you keep an internal IT person or team and we fill agreed gaps, typically first-line help desk tickets, routine patching, or the monitoring and security tools they do not have time to run. Either way, the split of responsibilities is confirmed in writing before we start.
Do you offer managed IT services for a small business with only a few employees?
Yes. Plans are priced per user, per month, so a small business pays for the people it actually has, and you can add or remove users as the team changes. A small office gets the same help desk, patching and monitoring as a larger client; the tier you choose sets how much else is covered.
What does a managed service provider do?
A managed service provider takes responsibility for your IT for a monthly fee. That usually means a help desk for staff, monitoring and patching devices, managing security tools, backing up data, handling user accounts and licences, and advising on upgrades. You get a whole team instead of a single person, with costs agreed in advance.
How fast do you respond?
Support hours and response times are agreed in your service agreement before we start, by plan and by priority. Every request is logged, tracked and owned by a named person, and outages or security alerts are always handled first and stay with an engineer until they are resolved.
Which countries do you support?
IT Desk is delivered remotely to businesses in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Europe. We agree support hours that suit your business day before we start, and for hardware that needs hands on site we coordinate with you or a local supplier.
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Services
Services inside IT Desk
Remote IT Support & Troubleshooting
On-demand remote IT help and troubleshooting for computers, email, printers, networks, and business software, with every request logged and tracked.
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Network Design & Setup
Office networks, Wi-Fi, firewalls and VPNs planned properly, documented clearly and supported after launch.
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Cloud Services & Migration
Planned moves to AWS, Azure or Google Cloud, with sensible costs, proper backups and ongoing management.
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Cybersecurity & Data Protection
Practical protection for small businesses: MFA, endpoint security, email filtering, backups, staff training and a response plan.
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Microsoft 365 & Google Workspace Setup
Business email on your own domain, shared storage and collaboration tools in Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace, set up properly.
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Business Email & DNS Deliverability
We set up business email and fix the DNS behind it, so your messages are authenticated, trusted, and far less likely to land in spam.
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Hotel, Guesthouse & Restaurant Networks
We design networks for hotels, guesthouses, and restaurants that keep guests online and keep your payment, staff, and camera systems separate.
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