Managed IT Services
The Managed IT team that'll tell you when you don't need us.
Based in Indianapolis, serving businesses across Indiana. Most IT providers only hear from you when something breaks. We run quarterly reviews built to right-size your bill, and we pick up the phone when you call. No ticket queues. No tier upgrades.
Aaron Lamb and Jay Carney built this. Indianapolis founders. Between them: three businesses owned, 45 years of systems engineering, and two stints running MSPs. They built this knowing exactly where the industry cuts corners.
Who we're best for.
Three shapes of engagement we do well. If one of these sounds like your situation, your free hour is the right next move.
First real MSP
You've been running on break-fix, a freelancer, a family friend who knows computers, or duct tape. The business has outgrown it. You need IT to be someone's job, not something that happens when it breaks.
Replacing your MSP
Your current provider routes you to a different tier-1 tech every time. Tickets close without fixes. Your bill keeps drifting up while response times drift down. You're shopping because the relationship is done.
Outgrowing your stack
You're shipping a new product, opening a site, picking up compliance, or adding headcount faster than your tools keep up. What worked last year doesn't now, and you don't have time to run IT on top of the business.
Need executive-level technology guidance, not just managed IT? Fractional Leadership is the better starting point.
Where we work in Indiana.
Based in Indianapolis. On-site coverage across the Indy metro and scheduled on-site visits statewide. Columbus is an hour south. Kokomo is an hour north. For the right engagement, distance is solvable.
Cities and regions we actively cover: Indianapolis, Carmel, Fishers, Noblesville, Greenwood, Brownsburg, Columbus, Kokomo, Bloomington, Warsaw, Winona Lake, Kosciusko County, Valparaiso, and the NW Indiana corridor.
A significant share of Indiana's business base is in manufacturing, defense contracting, and supply chain. Those environments have specific technology requirements: uptime expectations, vendor-agnostic stacks, compliance considerations. That's the work we came up doing.
Based in a specific Indiana city? See our Indianapolis page for metro-specific coverage and response expectations.
What real managed IT looks like, month to month.
Not a feature checklist. These are the outcomes a real managed IT engagement delivers, month in and month out.
Always On
- Monitoring of your systems and endpoints so issues get caught before users notice
- Patch management and update coordination, scheduled around your operations so maintenance windows are planned, not surprises
- Backup and disaster recovery so a ransomware incident doesn't become a business-ending event
When You Need Us
- A single point of contact who knows your environment, so you're not re-explaining your stack every call
- Helpdesk support that gets to root cause, not just workaround
- Vendor coordination so you're not juggling six contracts on your own
Before Things Break
- Proactive maintenance on the schedule your business actually runs
- Security baseline: firewall, endpoint protection, MFA, patch posture
- Quarterly risk review so blind spots don't become headlines
So You Stay In Control
- You'll know what's happening before you have to ask. Maintenance windows, incidents, and changes get communicated, not discovered.
- Monthly strategy review so IT stays aligned with where the business is going
- No vendor lock-in. Stack-agnostic by design.
How we work with you.
The commercial side of a managed IT relationship, in plain terms. We built it around one idea: we'd rather you call less as the years go on, not more.
Pricing, not a brochure.
Two paths with managed IT pricing: a three-tier brochure, or a quote based on your actual setup. We do the second. Your free hour tells us what's in your environment, and the number coming out of it is what you pay. No tier upgrades, no ticket surcharges.
Your IT team, not a vendor.
When you call, you're calling the same people who set up your backup, tuned your firewall, or argued with your cloud provider on your behalf last month. We work on your environment together, share knowledge of it, and carry continuity across the relationship. Not a rotating tier-1 queue, not an account manager standing between you and the work.
Response, not a template.
A 4-hour response means different things for a solo practice and a logistics shift at 2am. So we skip the one-size SLA table. We walk through what "urgent" actually means for your business in your free hour, and commit to numbers we can honor. Real numbers land in your contract.
Contracts you can leave.
No contract should outlast the work that pays for it. Ours doesn't. 30 days notice to part ways, no cancellation penalties. Every quarter we sit down and review what you're paying for against what you actually used. If something can come down, we tell you. If your needs grew and costs should go up, we explain why. Either way, you know where you stand. That's built into the contract, not a favor we choose to do.
What the switch actually looks like.
Most MSP pitches skip this part. A transition bets your business if it goes wrong, so we plan it so it can't. These stages can move faster or slower depending on your environment.
Baseline
- Free hour and environment walkthrough
- Documentation audit: what exists, what's missing, what needs fixing
- Monitoring and EDR deployed in observe-only mode
- Access handoff paths mapped, not yet executed
You still have your current provider. No risk yet.
Co-existence
- We operate alongside your current provider
- Tickets start routing to us where it's safe
- Patch cadence, backup, and identity baseline move to our stack
- Your current MSP still handles anything we haven't taken over
Everything reversible up to this point.
Cutover
- Remaining systems transition on a scheduled plan
- Old provider offboarded cleanly, with documentation delivered
- You own the environment. Documentation travels with you.
- Ownership change happens on your calendar, not ours
The handover is yours to approve, not ours to impose.
If something isn't ready for handover at any point, we slow down. Nothing moves to production without your sign-off.
Proof, not promises.
We cut an accounting firm's managed IT bill in half in their first year. Thirty-plus people across the firm. No renegotiation drama. Just a setup that matched what they actually needed.
Hexaxia client engagement, anonymized
When you're standing up a new company, the last thing you have bandwidth for is chasing down IT problems. Hexaxia took that off my plate from day one.
Ian, Managing Partner, Pax Nocturna LLC
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Backed by partnerships with Red Hat, Microsoft, Arrow Electronics, and leading security vendors.
What "security is integrated from day one" actually means.
The concrete pieces that ship with every managed engagement, and why each one matters on the day something goes wrong.
Endpoint EDR
Managed endpoint detection and response on every managed device. Not antivirus theater. The tooling runs 24/7, contains threats automatically, and escalates to us for response. Threat hunting at the level you'd pay a dedicated SOC to do.
Identity and MFA baseline
MFA enforced across every SaaS account we manage. Conditional access where the license supports it. Privilege audited, not assumed.
Patch posture and backup
Patching on a schedule you can prove. Backups tested, not just running. Recovery objectives documented so the ransomware call isn't the first time anyone thinks about them.
Documentation that passes an audit
Network diagrams, asset inventory, access policies, and incident procedures. Kept current and available on demand. Cyber insurance questionnaires answered in an hour, not a week.
If you're working toward HIPAA, SOC 2, CMMC, PCI, or a cyber insurance renewal, the baseline above is the starting point. We don't sell compliance as a product. The requirement drives specific controls, and we implement the specific controls. If your auditor asks for a System Security Plan, your MSP should be able to hand one to you.
Related: Security Architecture and Zero Trust Architecture for the deeper security engagements.
Meet your founders.
No rotating queue, no tier-1 roulette. When you call, you're calling your IT team. The people who know your environment and work on it together.
Jay Carney
Operations and automation
Designs the runbooks, monitoring, and recovery procedures that keep a business's IT predictable. Two decades across government, pharma, and manufacturing, where an outage isn't a ticket. It's a headline.
Aaron Lamb
Systems architecture and client engagement
25+ years across federal health, defense, telecom, and pharma. The person who'll sit across from you in your free hour and tell you what your stack actually needs.
The machine behind them
Automation, monitoring, and runbooks
The operational layer that lets two founders support businesses at scale. Managed EDR watching endpoints around the clock, monitoring across your stack, documented runbooks for the work that happens the same way every time, and capacity held back so the third fire doesn't wait for the first two to get cleaned up.
The Promise
The sentence we want clients to tell their friends.
We're building for one recommendation, not the marketing version. Just this:
Call them. They'll help you solve your problem.
Everything on this page is in service of earning that sentence.
What you should expect, and what you shouldn't.
The difference between a good MSP and a bad one isn't skill. It's what the company is built to do. Here's what we are, and what we're not.
We are
- The Managed IT team that'll tell you when you don't need us
- Your IT team, with shared knowledge of your environment
- Stack-agnostic. We recommend what works for you
- Custom-quoted per stack, not a brochure of three tiers
- A team that's been on your side of the table
- A contract that ends when you say so, with documentation that travels with you
We are not
- A commission-driven reseller pushing vendor stacks
- A pressure sales pitch dressed up as an "assessment"
- A ticket queue where your issue waits behind 40 others
- A tier upgrade trap with surprise charges
- Locked into one vendor's ecosystem
- Niche-limited or industry-specific
We'll tell you when you don't need us. That's the differentiator.
Questions buyers actually ask.
The honest answers to the questions a pricing page or SLA table would dodge.
What is Managed IT Services?
Managed IT is an ongoing engagement where we take responsibility for your technology, not just fix it when it breaks. Monitoring, patching, security, helpdesk, vendor coordination. All covered on a monthly basis so your stack doesn't quietly fall behind. The alternative is break-fix: you call when something's broken and pay by the hour. Break-fix is cheaper when nothing goes wrong. It gets expensive when things do. Managed IT means someone is watching before you have to call. We become your IT department.
How much does Managed IT with Hexaxia cost?
It depends on your stack. We don't publish a brochure of tiers because every business we work with needs a different mix. The free hour tells us what's in your environment, and the quote that comes out of it is the number you pay. No surprises, no tier upgrades, no ticket surcharges.
How fast do you respond when something breaks?
The real numbers come out of your free hour, because a 4-hour response means different things for a 10-person law firm and a logistics operation running a 2am shift. We commit to numbers we can honor, not template SLAs we'd break on the first real incident.
What's the minimum contract length?
No contract should outlast the work that pays for it. 30 days notice to part ways, no cancellation penalties. We also do a quarterly review of your contract to look for things we can cut. If your headcount dropped, if you're not using a tool we're managing, if something's gotten cheaper elsewhere, we bring it to you. The only reason to stay is because we're worth staying for.
Are you locked into one vendor stack?
No. Stack-agnostic by design. We recommend what works for you, not what pays us a commission. If a free tool solves your problem, we'll tell you to use the free tool.
What size businesses do you work with?
Any size, as long as we're the right fit. A solo firm that needs IT to just work, a growing team whose stack has gotten complicated, a company switching from an MSP that's stopped delivering. What matters is the shape of the engagement, not the seat count or the industry. That's what your free hour sorts out.
What if you can't fix something?
We'll tell you who can. That's literally in our core values. We'd rather refer you to the right specialist than pretend we're the right fit when we're not.
Do I have to switch everything at once?
No. Transitions are planned, phased, and reversible. Nothing touches production without your approval. The goal is that you end up with less stuff that works better, not a big-bang migration that bets your business.
What happens to my data and systems if I leave?
You own your systems. Documentation travels with you. The handoff is the same whether you're onboarding a new MSP or taking IT back in-house.
What is Managed IT Services?
Managed IT is an ongoing engagement where we take responsibility for your technology, not just fix it when it breaks. Monitoring, patching, security, helpdesk, vendor coordination. All covered on a monthly basis so your stack doesn't quietly fall behind. The alternative is break-fix: you call when something's broken and pay by the hour. Break-fix is cheaper when nothing goes wrong. It gets expensive when things do. Managed IT means someone is watching before you have to call. We become your IT department.
How much does Managed IT with Hexaxia cost?
It depends on your stack. We don't publish a brochure of tiers because every business we work with needs a different mix. The free hour tells us what's in your environment, and the quote that comes out of it is the number you pay. No surprises, no tier upgrades, no ticket surcharges.
How fast do you respond when something breaks?
The real numbers come out of your free hour, because a 4-hour response means different things for a 10-person law firm and a logistics operation running a 2am shift. We commit to numbers we can honor, not template SLAs we'd break on the first real incident.
What's the minimum contract length?
No contract should outlast the work that pays for it. 30 days notice to part ways, no cancellation penalties. We also do a quarterly review of your contract to look for things we can cut. If your headcount dropped, if you're not using a tool we're managing, if something's gotten cheaper elsewhere, we bring it to you. The only reason to stay is because we're worth staying for.
Are you locked into one vendor stack?
No. Stack-agnostic by design. We recommend what works for you, not what pays us a commission. If a free tool solves your problem, we'll tell you to use the free tool.
What size businesses do you work with?
Any size, as long as we're the right fit. A solo firm that needs IT to just work, a growing team whose stack has gotten complicated, a company switching from an MSP that's stopped delivering. What matters is the shape of the engagement, not the seat count or the industry. That's what your free hour sorts out.
What if you can't fix something?
We'll tell you who can. That's literally in our core values. We'd rather refer you to the right specialist than pretend we're the right fit when we're not.
Do I have to switch everything at once?
No. Transitions are planned, phased, and reversible. Nothing touches production without your approval. The goal is that you end up with less stuff that works better, not a big-bang migration that bets your business.
What happens to my data and systems if I leave?
You own your systems. Documentation travels with you. The handoff is the same whether you're onboarding a new MSP or taking IT back in-house.
Ready to know what your Indiana business's technology is actually costing you?
Free hour. No pitch. No contract. Just a clear picture of where your tech is working for you and where it's working against you. We've never done one where we didn't find something.
We onboard 2 to 3 new engagements per quarter to keep quality high. Your free hour doesn't commit you to a slot. It tells you if we're a fit.
Simpler, stronger, more capable. Without anything you don't need.
Hexaxia. The Strategic Technology Partner that redefined what every business should expect from managed IT.