
We pick up the phone, fast.
Live answer, 24/7. Average pickup is under 90 seconds. No phone tree, no ticket form. The engineer who answers is the one who'll fix it.
Engineers on call tonight
Help that picks up. After Hours IT is the after-hours IT desk for small businesses in Seattle and the Eastside. Call, and the senior engineer who answers is the one who fixes it.
How it works

Live answer, 24/7. Average pickup is under 90 seconds. No phone tree, no ticket form. The engineer who answers is the one who'll fix it.

Frozen servers, locked accounts, broken email: most things get solved over a secure remote session while we're still on the line.

Hardware swap, dead drive, dead switch? The same engineer drives out the same night with tools and parts.

Once you're back online: rotate passwords, restore from clean backup, patch what was exposed, and email you a one-page write-up of what changed and why.
Common emergencies
Production server unreachable, services offline, and no one from daytime IT is answering.
Suspicious encryption activity or a ransom note on screen. Every minute counts.
Wi-Fi dead, switches unresponsive, or an entire office floor just went dark.
Accounts locked, MFA broken, or Exchange is down right before a critical deadline.
Registers won't process transactions and the dinner rush just started.
Nightly backup didn't run, or you need an emergency restore and can't find the snapshots.
Remote staff locked out of the company network with a client deliverable due tonight.
Blue screen, boot loop, or a dead drive on the one machine that runs your critical app.
Trusted across the region
“Our server went down at 9 PM on a Friday. They picked up in under a minute and had us back online before we closed.”
“We had a ransomware scare at 11 PM. They walked us through containment and were on-site within the hour.”
“Our old IT company took days to respond. These folks answered the phone at 7 AM on a Saturday and fixed our POS in twenty minutes.”
Serving the Pacific Northwest
Stuck right now?
A senior engineer picks up in under 90 seconds.
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