Orillia, Ontario
Co-Managed IT Services in Orillia, Ontario for Businesses With an Internal IT Hire
Backup for your internal IT person, not a replacement for them.
ACT360 works alongside your existing internal IT hire in Orillia, about 30 minutes down Highway 11 from our Barrie office, handling overflow, specialized projects, and after-hours coverage on the ACTION methodology.
FREE · 30 MIN · NO OBLIGATION
What Your Free Co-Managed IT Review Covers
A 30-minute call with an ACT360 technology partner. We’ll look at where your internal IT setup could use backup most, no obligation.
- Where your internal IT setup could use backup most
- Which projects make sense to hand off vs. keep in-house
- How a co-managed engagement would be scoped for your team
What Is Co-Managed IT, and Why Does It Fit So Many Orillia Businesses?
Co-managed IT means ACT360 works alongside your existing internal IT hire, handling overflow, specialized projects, after-hours coverage, or strategic planning, rather than replacing that role entirely. This differs from full Managed IT in one key way: your internal person stays central to the relationship instead of being replaced by it.
The “accidental IT manager” is a real role at a lot of Orillia businesses, whether that’s a downtown retailer near Couchiching Beach or an office out on the Highway 11 corridor. Sometimes it’s someone who took on IT responsibilities in addition to their actual job, sometimes it’s a single internal hire who’s excellent at day-to-day support but has no backup when a manufacturer’s production floor system needs hardening, a healthcare office has to secure patient records, or they’re simply on vacation. Co-managed IT gives that person a real job back.
Security questions, vendor conversations, and hardware decisions stop landing entirely on their desk, and when they’re out, the business isn’t exposed. With Orillia manufacturers, a hospital, provincial policing headquarters, and two post-secondary campuses all drawing on the local labour pool, plenty of businesses here already have one internal hire wearing several hats — co-managed IT is built for exactly that situation.
What’s Included in ACT360 Co-Managed IT in Orillia
Overflow Support
Extra hands when a project outgrows what one internal hire can carry alone.
Coverage When They’re Out
Vacation, sick days, and after-hours emergencies stop being a single point of failure.
Strategic Planning Layered In
vCIO-style budget and roadmap conversations running alongside your internal hire’s daily work.
Specialized Project Work
Security hardening, migrations, and vendor negotiations handled by ACT360 while your team keeps the lights on.
A Path to Full Managed IT
If your needs outgrow a co-managed setup later, the transition builds on what’s already in place, no starting over.
One Named Contact
Adam or Jeffrey coordinates directly with your internal hire, never a generic ticket queue.
The 90-Day Exit Clause: How ACT360 Reduces Your Risk on Co-Managed IT in Orillia
Financial
A 90-day exit clause applies to the Managed IT side of any engagement, with co-managed work scoped and quoted on its own terms so you’re not paying for coverage you don’t need.
Switching
Your internal hire stays central — nothing gets handed to ACT360 until they’ve defined what we cover, whether your office is downtown or on the Highway 11 corridor.
Political
The Assess step produces a document you can bring to leadership before any proposal exists.
Operational
One named contact, Adam or Jeffrey, coordinates with your internal hire directly instead of routing through a queue.
Ownership
Your internal hire keeps their role, their relationships, and everything they’ve already built.
Co-Managed IT vs. Fully Outsourced vs. In-House Only
Most growing Orillia businesses don’t need to choose between fully outsourced and going it alone.
Co-managed is built for exactly that middle ground. You keep the relationships and institutional knowledge your internal hire has already built; ACT360 fills in specifically where the gaps are.
Our Approach
A.C.T.I.O.N.
Co-Managed IT in Orillia starts with understanding what your internal IT person already owns well, so ACTION fills the specific gaps instead of duplicating effort. The handoff is staged around your team’s schedule, whether that’s a downtown office near Couchiching Beach or a facility out on the Highway 11 corridor, and we keep checking in through quarterly reviews.
Assess
A real look at what your internal IT person already owns well, not a headcount-and-device-list quote.
Comprehend
We dig into where the actual gaps are, after-hours coverage, specialized security work, a second set of hands, instead of duplicating effort.
Tailor
The recommendation is built around what your internal hire doesn’t have time for or isn’t specialized in, not a pre-packaged tier.
Implement
The handoff is staged around your team’s schedule, never a big-bang cutover that disrupts your internal hire’s routine.
Optimize
Quarterly reviews keep checking in so the split of responsibilities keeps making sense as your business grows.
Nurture
We build relationships with your whole team, including your internal hire, not just the owner.
Meet Your Orillia Co-Managed IT Team
You won’t be handed off to a rotating helpdesk. Here’s who you’ll actually talk to.
Adam Bowles
Partner & CEO15+ years helping Ontario businesses close the gap between the technology they bought and the technology they actually need. Adam leads with discovery — he won’t recommend anything until he understands how your business actually runs.
Jeffrey Bowles
Partner & Director of IT ServicesOne of ACT360’s founding team members, trained in computer science at Georgian College. Jeffrey runs the technical foundation, helpdesk, networking, cybersecurity, and leads ACT360’s vCIO and DEEP MSP programs.
The Team Values Behind ACT360’s Co-Managed IT in Orillia
Co-Managed IT partnerships in Orillia work because both teams, yours and ACT360’s, can count on these values being real, not printed on a wall.
Be the Client
We listen to our clients and other team members to understand the full scope of the requirements and goals. We put ourselves in your shoes as we design and build the processes, tools, and infrastructure that will make your team more productive.
Give the 360° Solution
Our goal is to give our clients the full solution, so your technology becomes a profit enhancer rather than a profit hindrance. That’s why we offer more than a service desk or IT support — we bring a vCIO, IT strategy, and process improvement to the table.
Be a Problem Solver
We look beyond the problem to find its actual source so we can resolve it. When we work with your team and any vendors, we make sure every issue at hand is fully addressed.
Always Looking Forward
We strive to deal with our mistakes as a team, learn from them, fix them, and then not look back and repeat them. We also aim to provide proactive and forward-facing solutions by identifying issues as soon as they’re spotted.
Working to Live, Not Living to Work
We want our employees to feel supported to take care of family and personal needs. So we believe in creating a flexible, asynchronous, and remote-friendly workplace — as long as the work is getting done well and on time, then we are satisfied.
Treating Employees Like Experts
We believe our employees are experts who can be trusted to own their work and feel empowered to improve results. So we trust our experts to create solutions in efficient ways that work for them and to seek continual improvement, for the company and for others.
Talk to ACT360’s Orillia team today about where co-managed support could help
Get in TouchWhat Orillia Businesses Ask About Co-Managed IT
Co-managed IT is built to support your internal hire, not replace them. They keep their role, their relationships with the team, and their institutional knowledge, while ACT360 fills the gaps around them.
The answer is to involve them from day one, so they help define what ACT360 covers. That’s usually the after-hours coverage and specialized work they don’t have time for, so it reads as backup, not a quiet replacement plan.
Co-managed work is scoped to the specific gap being filled, not the full managed IT rate that assumes ACT360 owns the entire relationship. Because your internal hire keeps handling day-to-day work, most co-managed engagements cost less than fully outsourcing. For reference, full-service Managed IT runs roughly $80 to $150 CAD per user per month. Your actual number gets confirmed at the free IT Readiness Assessment rather than quoted blind.
Specialized work outside a generalist hire’s day-to-day scope usually comes to ACT360, such as security hardening, cloud migrations, and vendor contract negotiations. The internal person typically keeps ownership of daily helpdesk and user support.
Timing depends on how much your internal hire wants to hand off, so it gets set during the Assess step rather than promised upfront. The handoff is staged around your team’s schedule, never a big-bang cutover that disrupts your internal hire’s routine. Quarterly reviews then keep checking that the split of responsibilities still makes sense as your business grows.
That’s a conversation about changing needs, not a renegotiation from scratch. Some businesses start co-managed because they’re not ready to hand over the full relationship, and move to full managed IT later, including if an internal hire eventually leaves.
Co-managed IT is scoped around whoever handles your IT today, whether that’s a full-time hire or someone juggling it alongside another job. Orillia’s tourism and hospitality businesses often have someone covering IT alongside other responsibilities, especially during peak season. The free 30-minute IT Readiness Assessment is a no-obligation way to see where that person needs backup most.
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