Co-Managed IT: Your Team Plus Ours, San Francisco
Your IT manager is talented — and buried. Tickets eat the roadmap, nights and weekends eat the person, and every vacation is a gamble. Co-managed IT keeps your internal team in charge while our San Francisco bench carries the load they shouldn’t: help desk volume, 24/7 monitoring, security operations, and the projects that never quite start.
- Your team keeps ownership, priorities, and institutional knowledge
- We absorb ticket volume, after-hours coverage, and monitoring
- Senior specialists on tap: security, cloud, network architecture
- Enterprise tooling — RMM, EDR, documentation — without the licenses
- A partnership agreement, not a replacement threat
Map the Right Split
Thirty minutes with your IT lead: we’ll sketch which responsibilities to keep, which to share, and what it costs.
Thanks — you’re in good hands.
A local team member will reach out within 1 business hour.
Why Great Internal IT Teams Hit a Wall
Somewhere between employee forty and employee two hundred, every San Francisco company discovers the same math: one or two internal IT people cannot simultaneously answer tickets, watch security alerts, manage the cloud environment, negotiate with vendors, plan the roadmap, and take a day off. The work isn’t too hard — it’s too wide.
The usual answers all have sharp edges. Hiring a second or third IT person costs well into six figures per seat in this market, and you still don’t get around-the-clock coverage or a security specialist. Outsourcing everything throws away the institutional knowledge your IT manager spent years building — and good IT managers rightly resist it. Doing nothing means your best technical hire spends their days resetting passwords while the strategic work rots in a backlog.
- Help desk volume — 8-minute average response, 24/7/365
- Monitoring, patching, and endpoint management at scale
- Security operations: EDR, SIEM, phishing defense, response
- Backup verification and disaster recovery testing
The Missing Pieces, On Tap
Co-managed clients pull from the same toolkit and bench as our fully managed clients — in whatever mix fits.
Why San Francisco Businesses Switch to Us
We’re not the cheapest IT provider in San Francisco. We’re the best one and here’s why that matters for your business.
Co-Managed IT for Every San Francisco Industry
From FiDi finance to Mission Bay labs — depth in the industries that define this city.
What Businesses Say About Us
Long-standing Advanced Networks clients, in their own words.
“Institutional-grade IT without standing up our own department — security, uptime, and support that scale with the firm.”
“We scaled to roughly one hundred people on secure cloud desktops with Advanced Networks running the environment — every new hire productive on day one, in the office or remote.”
“Busy seasons used to mean IT anxiety. Since switching, our filing seasons have run without a single hour of unplanned downtime.”
Co-Managed IT FAQ
Honest answers — including to the question your IT manager is quietly worried about.
Advanced Networks — San Francisco Office · 27 Maiden Ln, San Francisco, CA 94108 · (415) 915-4080 · Open 24 hours
Explore the San Francisco stack your team can draw on: Managed IT Services · IT Support · Cybersecurity · Cloud Services · IT Consulting.
Give Your IT Team a Bench, Not a Replacement
Bring your IT lead to the call — (415) 915-4080. We’ll sketch the responsibility split together and put real numbers on it within a week.