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Co-Managed IT Services Denver, CO

Keep your internal IT staff. Add our helpdesk, security bench, and after-hours coverage on top. You stay in control of strategy and your business systems — Netirio absorbs the tickets, the patching, the monitoring, and the 2 a.m. calls.

Overview of Co-Managed IT

Netirio is a Denver-based Managed IT Services Provider, and co-managed IT is how we work with companies that already have an IT person or a small internal team. You don’t hand over the keys. We slot in alongside your staff and take the volume and the specialties they can’t reasonably carry alone.
Most of the companies we co-manage for run between 25 and 250 employees. They have one or two capable IT people who are buried in password resets and printer tickets instead of the projects that actually move the business. Co-managed IT gives those people their calendar back — and gives you a full stack of security, cloud, and network expertise without another salary, another benefits package, or another person to backfill when they’re on vacation.

Your IT lead stays in charge

They keep the relationships, the roadmap, and the institutional knowledge. We report to them, not around them.

Netirio

How We Do IT.

We have been making IT safer and easier for companies across Denver, Colorado Springs, and Phoenix since 2019. Technology, People, Process — in that order of attention and the reverse order of importance. Co-managed engagements start with a documentation and tooling review, so your team and ours are looking at the same environment before we touch a single ticket.

What Is Co-Managed IT?

Co-managed IT is a split of responsibility, not a replacement. Fully managed IT means an MSP owns everything. Co-managed means you keep the parts that need to stay in-house — the line-of-business applications, the vendor relationships, the executive context — and an MSP takes the operational load and the specialist work around it. The split is written down, agreed to, and revisited quarterly.

Co-Managed Helpdesk

Your users get a real service desk with tracked tickets and SLAs. Tier 1 and Tier 2 come to us; anything business-specific routes straight to your internal lead.

Cybersecurity Bench

EDR, managed detection and response, email security, phishing simulation, and incident response — the stack and the analysts most internal teams can't staff on their own.

Microsoft 365 & Cloud

Tenant hardening, license right-sizing, Intune and Entra policy, SharePoint and Teams governance, plus Azure and hybrid cloud infrastructure management.

Network & Infrastructure

Firewall, switching, wireless, VPN, and server work — designed, deployed, and monitored by engineers who do it every day instead of once every three years.

Documentation & vCIO Strategy

Every environment we co-manage gets documented in a system your team can read. Quarterly vCIO sessions turn that into a budget and a roadmap you can take to leadership.

After-Hours & Overflow

Nights, weekends, holidays, PTO, project crunches, and the week your IT person is out sick. Coverage that doesn't depend on one phone staying on.

Co-Managed IT vs. Fully Managed IT: What's the Difference?

The short version: fully managed IT means Netirio owns your entire IT function. Co-managed IT means you keep an internal IT person or team and we take an agreed share of the work beside them. Both deliver the same tooling and the same security stack — what changes is who owns which queue.

Fully Managed IT

Co-Managed IT

Where You Lead, Where We Load-Balance

Ambiguity is what makes co-managed engagements fail. Here’s the default split we start from, then tune to your team.

Your Team Keeps

Netirio Takes On

What Co-Managed IT Services Denver Businesses Get

Every co-managed agreement is scoped to what your team already covers. These are the services we most often take on, in whole or in part.
Not sure where the line should fall? Most of our co-managed clients start with helpdesk and security, then hand over monitoring and patching once they see the ticket queue drop.

Who Co-Managed IT Services Denver Is Built For

You have IT, and they're buried

One or two internal people handling everything from laptop imaging to the ERP migration. Co-managed IT takes the repetitive volume off their plate so the projects that have been sitting in the backlog for eight months finally move.

You need skills you can't hire for

Your generalist is excellent — and is not a security analyst, a cloud architect, and a network engineer all at once. We plug in the specialist bench for the work that needs it, priced as a service instead of three more salaries.

You're growing faster than you can staff

Headcount is slow, expensive, and hard to reverse. Co-managed capacity scales up for a rollout or an acquisition and back down when it's done, without a hiring cycle or a severance conversation.

Areas We Serve

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Also serving Colorado Springs, CO and Phoenix, AZ.

Co-Managed IT Services Denver: FAQ

With fully managed IT, Netirio owns the entire IT function — you have no internal staff, or none dedicated to technology. With co-managed IT, you keep your internal person or team and we take an agreed portion of the work alongside them. The deliverables overlap heavily; what changes is who owns which queue and who your users call first.

No, and if that’s the goal you want our fully managed service instead. Co-managed engagements exist to make an internal IT person more effective, not redundant. In practice your IT lead usually ends up with more authority, not less — they stop being the ticket queue and start being the person who sets direction and holds a vendor accountable.

We start with a documented responsibility matrix during onboarding. Every recurring function — helpdesk tiers, patching, backups, security alerts, procurement, projects — gets an explicit owner and an escalation path. It’s reviewed every quarter at your vCIO session and adjusted as your team changes.

Our security and monitoring stack needs to be deployed for us to be accountable for those outcomes. Beyond that, we work in your ticketing and documentation systems where it makes sense, or give your team full access to ours. We’ll tell you plainly during scoping which tools are non-negotiable and why.

That’s one of the strongest arguments for co-managed IT. Because the environment is documented on our side and we already run a share of the operations, coverage doesn’t collapse when one person is out. If they leave entirely, we can step up to fully managed while you hire, then step back down.

Most co-managed agreements are priced per user or per endpoint on the services you hand us, with project work quoted separately. Because you keep part of the scope in-house, co-managed typically lands below a fully managed agreement for the same headcount. Use the pricing calculator for a range, or call us for a scoped quote.

Vendor Partners

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Give Your IT Team Their Calendar Back

Tell us what your internal team owns today and where they’re drowning. We’ll come back with a responsibility split, a scope, and a number — no obligation, no 45-minute discovery call required to get a straight answer.
Denver 303-284-3566  |  Colorado Springs 719-623-2662  |  Phoenix 602-844-7558