Engineers on call tonight

It's 8:47 PM. Something just broke.

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.

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  • Live answer 24/7
  • Senior engineers
  • Seattle & Eastside
How it works

How it works

What happens
when you call.

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01 · Pick up

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.

Live · 24 / 7
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02 · Diagnose

Most issues get fixed on the call.

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

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03 · On-site

If it needs to be done in person, we come tonight.

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

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04 · Secure

We make sure it doesn't happen again.

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

Whatever broke tonight,
we've seen it before.

Server Down

Production server unreachable, services offline, and no one from daytime IT is answering.

Ransomware Alert

Suspicious encryption activity or a ransom note on screen. Every minute counts.

Network Outage

Wi-Fi dead, switches unresponsive, or an entire office floor just went dark.

Email & M365 Lockout

Accounts locked, MFA broken, or Exchange is down right before a critical deadline.

POS System Crash

Registers won't process transactions and the dinner rush just started.

Backup Failure

Nightly backup didn't run, or you need an emergency restore and can't find the snapshots.

VPN Won't Connect

Remote staff locked out of the company network with a client deliverable due tonight.

Workstation Won't Boot

Blue screen, boot loop, or a dead drive on the one machine that runs your critical app.

Trusted across the region

Seattle & Eastside businesses
count on us after hours.

“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.”

Maria L.Restaurant Owner · Capitol Hill, Seattle

“We had a ransomware scare at 11 PM. They walked us through containment and were on-site within the hour.”

David K.Office Manager · Bellevue

“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.”

Priya S.Retail Store Owner · Kirkland

Serving the Pacific Northwest

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