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Managed IT · North Shore, MA
Managed IT services that keep North Shore businesses running.
Helpdesk, cybersecurity, cloud, and Microsoft 365 — handled by one accountable local team, for a flat monthly price. No ticket queues, no finger-pointing, no surprise invoices. Just IT that works, so you can get back to your business.
What managed IT includes
Monitoring & maintenance
Round-the-clock monitoring and automated patching catch and fix most problems before they ever reach your team.
Cybersecurity
Firewalls, endpoint protection, email security, multi-factor authentication, and dark-web monitoring — layered defense woven into everything we manage.
Backup & recovery
On-site and off-site backups, tested regularly, so a failed drive, ransomware hit, or accidental delete never becomes a business-ending event.
Cloud & Microsoft 365
Setup, security, and day-to-day management of Microsoft 365, Azure, AWS, and hybrid environments — kept private, patched, and running.
Onboarding & hardware
New-hire setup done right, device procurement, and honest hardware advice — the ones that fit your business, not the ones with the best margin.
DESIGNS
Managed IT, web design and SEO under one roof, on the North Shore since 2013.
Start a conversation →Why businesses switch to us
Most small and medium businesses outgrow the “computer guy” but aren’t big enough to want a faceless national MSP with a ticket portal and a call center. That’s exactly the gap we fill.
You talk to the person who fixes it
Knowledge Designs is founder-led. When something breaks, you’re talking directly to Greg Pagliarulo, the person who built and secured your systems, backed by a small dedicated team for off-hours and larger projects. No hand-offs, no hold music, no explaining your setup to a stranger every time.
Proactive, not reactive
Break-fix IT only makes money when things go wrong. Managed IT is the opposite: we’re paid to keep things running, so we monitor, patch, and harden your environment to stop problems before they start. Fewer emergencies, less downtime, predictable cost.
One team for IT, web, and SEO
Your website runs on infrastructure we secure and ranks on content we manage. Because it’s all one team, a server issue, a site bug, and a rankings dip never turn into three vendors blaming each other.
How getting started works
01
Discovery call
A straight conversation about what you run, what hurts, and what you’re trying to grow into. No jargon, no pressure.
02
Assessment & quote
We document your environment, flag risks, and send an itemized quote priced to your team — so you know exactly what’s included and what it costs.
03
Onboarding
We take over quietly in the background — monitoring, security, and backups go live with zero downtime for your team.
04
Ongoing partnership
Day-to-day support plus regular check-ins on security, budget, and what’s next — so your technology keeps pace with your business.
Local & on-call
IT support across the North Shore
We’re based in Middleton and on the road across the North Shore of Massachusetts every week. When a problem needs hands on it, we’re a short drive away, not a plane ticket and a national dispatch queue.
A number you can check yourself
Microsoft Secure Score — 10–12% above the benchmark
+10–12%
Above comparable orgs
Where our managed clients typically sit against the benchmark Microsoft reports for similar businesses.
In your tenant
Verify it yourself
Secure Score is Microsoft’s own metric, visible in your admin center. You never have to take our word for it.
Microsoft Secure Score rates how well a Microsoft 365 tenant is actually configured — multi-factor authentication coverage, admin account hygiene, legacy authentication, mailbox rules, device compliance, data protection. It is scored out of a possible total, and Microsoft shows you the average for organizations of similar size and sector alongside it.
That comparison is the useful part. Most claims an IT provider makes about your security are unfalsifiable — you are asked to trust that things are configured properly. Secure Score is not. It sits in your own admin center, Microsoft calculates it, and you can look at it without asking anyone’s permission.
Our managed clients typically run 10 to 12 percent above that benchmark. Not because of anything exotic, but because the unglamorous items get done and stay done: MFA on every account including administrators, legacy authentication switched off so MFA cannot be bypassed, separate admin accounts, audit logging retained long enough to be useful, mailbox forwarding restricted, and conditional access that actually reflects where you operate.
Those are the same controls we would recommend to anyone, and most of them cost nothing beyond the effort of turning them on correctly. The gap exists because on a lot of tenants nobody ever does.
If you are already on Microsoft 365, that number exists right now whether or not anyone has looked at it. Our free health check includes it — and if your score is already strong, we will tell you that and say so plainly.
“Knowing Knowledge Designs is monitoring our network is great peace of mind and allows us to focus on what we do best while knowing our network and equipment are secure and up to date. No one will beat his response time either.”
Managed IT, answered
Everything that keeps your office running: a helpdesk your team can call, 24/7 monitoring, security patching, cybersecurity, backups, Microsoft 365 and cloud management, new-hire setup, and hardware advice. You get one flat monthly price and one team that owns the whole stack.
Break-fix means you only get help after something has already cost you time or money. Managed IT is proactive: monitoring and patching prevent most problems before you see them, and everything is covered under a predictable monthly fee instead of surprise hourly bills.
Managed IT is typically priced per user or per device, per month, so it scales with your team. We quote to your exact headcount, systems, and goals rather than a one-size sticker. Tell us what you run and we’ll send a straight, itemized number — or read our guide to managed IT pricing to see what drives the number.
Yes. We support Windows and Mac, Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace, and infrastructure that lives in the cloud, on-premise, or in a hybrid setup for privacy. We build around how your office actually works.
We’re based in Middleton and serve businesses across the North Shore of Massachusetts and Greater Boston — including Peabody, Lynnfield, Danvers, Saugus, Beverly, Salem, Wakefield, North Reading, and Topsfield.
Easier than most people expect. We handle the onboarding, document your environment, and take over quietly in the background. There’s no downtime for your team, and you’re never left to coordinate the handoff yourself. Not local to the North Shore? We also provide remote IT support nationwide.
Ready for IT that just works?
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