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Co-Managed Advanced Plan

When the IT routine consumes the day, the technical team lives the ticket queue: creating a user, granting access, setting up a machine. User support never ends, and the engineering that would improve the environment never begins.

The Co-Managed Advanced Plan puts the engineering shoulder to shoulder with your technical team in the day-to-day, with the deep specialist behind, unlimited attendance hours and a guaranteed start within 5 business hours, over an environment Zamak keeps healthy proactively. It includes everything in the Essential plan and adds the routine engineering, for a predictable monthly fee, sized by device type.

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When the routine consumes your technical team's day, the ticket queue never empties and what moves the company is left for later.

Many growing companies reach this point: the IT routine consumes the day, creating a user, granting access, installing a program, setting up a new machine. User support never ends, and the engineering that would improve the environment never begins. What is missing is not skill. It is real engineering alongside, in the day-to-day, to share the routine volume and unblock the big case.

The Co-Managed Advanced Plan places engineering shoulder to shoulder with your technical team in the day-to-day, not only when the case escalates, and adds the deep specialist behind.

The start of attendance gets even faster: guaranteed within 5 business hours, with unlimited attendance hours and a predictable IT cost.

It includes everything in the Essential plan and adds the day-to-day engineering, over an environment Zamak keeps healthy proactively, which is what makes the unlimited sustainable.

The engineering that was missing in the routine, in the day-to-day and in the big case, with a faster start on your side. Alongside your technical team, never in its place.

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Where the routine stalls the day

The problem is not skill. It is the routine consuming the whole day, with no deep engineering alongside.

See the moments when the routine stalls your technical team's day, not for lack of capability, but for lack of deep engineering alongside, every day, over an environment kept healthy.

The routine fills the day before it even begins.

The technical team takes the ticket, configures, resolves and still answers the user. When the case that needs deep engineering shows up, there is no one to hand it to, and the rest of the queue waits. The routine volume runs the day out early, and the company grows faster than the routine can keep up with.

Without reinforcement
is where the routine stalls: a full queue, no deep engineering alongside and no net for the big case

The flood of small requests that swallows the whole day.

Creating and deactivating users, adjusting an email or Microsoft 365 account, releasing a license, quoting and setting up a new machine. Each request is quick, but together they take the whole day. The team spends the day working the queue and never reaches the engineering work that would shrink that same queue. It is motion without progress.

The deep case stalls the queue when there is no engineering to hand it to.

When there is no deep engineering alongside, the medium and high-complexity case has no one to hand it to, and the whole queue waits behind it. A project stalls because there is no time between tickets, and what needs depth is always left for later. The bottleneck is not the team's: it is the lack of an engineering layer that steps into the day-to-day.

What would improve IT is always left for later.

Standardizing the machines, organizing access, documenting the environment, planning the next equipment refresh. It is the engineering work that would reduce tickets the following month, and it is exactly what never gets its turn, because the day ends in the queue. The environment keeps piling up technical debt, and each month gets a little harder than the last.

Without reinforcement, the knowledge stays concentrated and leaves with whoever leaves.

Without deep engineering alongside, without a net for the peaks and without anyone to think the problem through with, the technical team wears down. Much of what keeps the company standing stays concentrated in a few heads, and when someone leaves, the knowledge goes with them. Retaining good people means giving real reinforcement, not one more ticket to answer.

None of these moments is a lack of competence. They all come from the same gap: engineering shoulder to shoulder in the day-to-day, a deep specialist behind and a faster guaranteed start, over an environment kept healthy, for a predictable monthly fee. That is exactly what the Co-Managed Advanced Plan places alongside your technical team.

What the plan is

It is engineering alongside your technical team, in the day-to-day and in the big case.

The Co-Managed Advanced Plan is the second step of the service plans. It includes everything in the Essential plan, the deep specialist's backline, and adds engineering shoulder to shoulder in the day-to-day: the team that steps in before escalating, resolving the medium-complexity case and the routine volume. The guaranteed start gets faster, within 5 business hours, and attendance is unlimited in hours. It is co-managed: your technical team stays in command, and Zamak steps in alongside, keeping the environment healthy proactively so the unlimited attendance holds up.

Engineering shoulder to shoulder in the day-to-day

The difference from the entry plan is here: the engineering does not wait for the case to escalate, it steps into the day-to-day, alongside your technical team. User and email accounts, licenses, software configuration, backup follow-up, the routine volume gains a second pair of hands with engineering depth. The routine stops consuming the day, and the team gains time for what really matters.

A faster guaranteed start, and unlimited hours

The start of attendance, guaranteed by SLA, the deadline to begin, is faster in this plan: within 5 business hours, against the 8 of the Essential. And attendance is unlimited in hours: within the contracted scope, you do not count minutes or fear the next bill when the problem shows up. The deep specialist stays behind, for the big case. The cost becomes a predictable line, and the response has a shorter clock on your side.

Over an environment Zamak keeps healthy

Unlimited attendance is only sustainable when incidents are few. That is why the plan stands on an environment operated and protected proactively: the managed operation that monitors, updates and automates, and the protection that watches over security. This foundation addresses causes before they become a ticket, and it is what makes unlimited viable. The plan requires this foundation, and that is said plainly: it is what keeps attendance standing while the engineering works alongside your technical team.

This is the second step of the service plans: it includes everything in the Essential and adds the engineering in the day-to-day, with a faster start. It is still different from co-managed platform access, where your own team operates the console: here, Zamak's engineering steps into the routine together, alongside your technical team, never in its place.

What is included

Everything in the Essential, plus the day-to-day engineering, and the foundation that sustains it

On one side, the attendance this plan adds to the Essential: engineering shoulder to shoulder in the day-to-day and a faster guaranteed start, on top of the deep specialist and the unlimited hours that already come from the previous step. On the other, the foundation that makes that attendance sustainable: the environment operated and protected proactively, which the plan requires. The two parts go together, for a predictable monthly fee.

The attendance the plan adds

Engineering shoulder to shoulder in the day-to-day and a faster start, on top of everything the Essential already delivers.

  • The engineering steps into the day-to-day, alongside your technical team, before escalating to the deep specialist
  • Attendance to the routine volume: user and email accounts on Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace, creating and deactivating access
  • Support in acquiring software licenses, quoting new equipment and installing and configuring market software
  • Backup follow-up and a faster guaranteed start to attendance, within 5 business hours
  • Everything the Essential plan already delivers: the deep specialist, unlimited hours, professional ticket management and backline to your team

The foundation the plan requires, and why

The proactively managed environment that makes unlimited attendance sustainable.

  • The plan requires your environment to be under proactive operation and protection, the managed IT foundation
  • It is this foundation that keeps incidents low and, for that reason, makes unlimited attendance hours viable
  • Over it, the engineering and the deep specialist step in for what your team needs, with no charge per hour
  • A predictable monthly fee, sized by device type: servers, workstations, firewalls, Microsoft 365 and other network devices
  • A single point of contact at Zamak and managerial reports, alongside your team

Inside the plan

How the Co-Managed Advanced Plan works, on the inside

For those who want the detail: this is how the attendance is structured, measured and sustained.

Levels of attendance, without jargon

Attendance is organized in levels: first-line user support (who takes and logs the ticket), engineering (which configures and resolves the medium-complexity case) and the deep specialist (the most advanced level, for the big case). In this plan, your technical team covers first-line, and Zamak delivers the engineering and the deep specialist, shoulder to shoulder in the day-to-day and in the hard hour.

Start of attendance (SLA) within 5 business hours

SLA is the committed deadline for attendance to begin, counted in business hours. In this plan, the start is guaranteed within 5 business hours from when the ticket is opened, faster than the 8 hours of the entry plan. It is the deadline to start, not to resolve, which varies with the complexity of the case. In the Dedicated plan, that start is even faster, within 2 business hours and with priority.

Unlimited attendance hours, by scope

Within the contracted scope, attendance has no ceiling of hours: you do not count minutes or get a new bill with each ticket. The scope is sized by device type, and the unlimited applies to attendance, not to migration projects or deep work, which are scoped apart. What separates one from the other is defined clearly in the proposal, so there is no grey area between what is included and what is a project.

The day-to-day engineering, in detail

It is what this plan adds to the entry step. The engineering acts in the routine alongside your technical team: creating and deactivating users, email accounts on Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace, acquiring and adjusting licenses, quoting new equipment, installing and configuring market software and backup follow-up. It is the volume that consumes the routine, now shared with real engineering.

Over a proactively managed foundation

The plan stands on the managed operation of the environment, which monitors health, applies updates, automates routines and keeps the inventory, and on the protection that watches over security. This foundation works around the clock so that incidents are few. It is the condition that makes unlimited attendance hours viable, and that is why it is a requirement of the plan, contracted as the managed services that sustain the environment.

Honest scope

It is important to be clear: the Advanced Plan assumes your company has its own technical team doing first-line user support, and Zamak steps in as the engineering and the deep specialist, in remote attendance, during business hours. First-line user support provided by Zamak, on-site presence, strategic consulting and migration projects belong to the Dedicated plan. The promise is honest: the engineering alongside your technical team and a faster clock on your side.

Attendance is conducted on infrastructure certified to SOC 2 and ISO 27001, compliant with HIPAA and PCI-DSS, and every ticket stays recorded, with a trail and a managerial report.

The environment's monitoring and automation run around the clock, every day; the human attendance of the engineering and the deep specialist is during business hours, with a guaranteed start within 5 business hours.

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The three plans, side by side

Co-Managed Essential, Advanced or Dedicated IT Care

The plans form a cumulative ladder: each one includes the previous and adds more. All three have unlimited attendance hours and require the proactively managed environment; what changes is the depth of attendance and the speed of the guaranteed start. This is not a comparison against a vendor, but among Zamak's three plans. The highlighted column is this plan.

What changes between the plans
Co-Managed Essential
Start within 8 business hours
This plan
Co-Managed Advanced
Start within 5 business hours
Dedicated IT Care
Start within 2 business hours
Who attends behind your teamThe deep specialist, the most advanced engineering, for what your team escalatesAdds the day-to-day engineering, which steps in before escalating to the deep specialistAdds first-line user support and on-site attendance
Guaranteed start of attendance (SLA)Within 8 business hoursWithin 5 business hoursWithin 2 business hours, with priority
Attendance in hoursUnlimited, without counting minutesUnlimited, without counting minutesUnlimited, without counting minutes
Over a proactively managed environmentPlan requirement: proactive operation and protection of the environmentPlan requirementPlan requirement
Strategic consulting, on-site and projectsBackline and guidance to your teamBackline and guidance to your teamIncluded: strategic consulting, on-site attendance and projects
Who it is forYou already have an IT team, with first-line and engineeringYou have a technician organizing IT and need more day-to-day supportYou want priority and consulting, even already having a team

Who attends behind your team

Co-Managed Essential

The deep specialist, the most advanced engineering, for what your team escalates

Co-Managed Advanced · This plan

Adds the day-to-day engineering, which steps in before escalating to the deep specialist

Dedicated IT Care

Adds first-line user support and on-site attendance

Guaranteed start of attendance (SLA)

Co-Managed Essential

Within 8 business hours

Co-Managed Advanced · This plan

Within 5 business hours

Dedicated IT Care

Within 2 business hours, with priority

Attendance in hours

Co-Managed Essential

Unlimited, without counting minutes

Co-Managed Advanced · This plan

Unlimited, without counting minutes

Dedicated IT Care

Unlimited, without counting minutes

Over a proactively managed environment

Co-Managed Essential

Plan requirement: proactive operation and protection of the environment

Co-Managed Advanced · This plan

Plan requirement

Dedicated IT Care

Plan requirement

Strategic consulting, on-site and projects

Co-Managed Essential

Backline and guidance to your team

Co-Managed Advanced · This plan

Backline and guidance to your team

Dedicated IT Care

Included: strategic consulting, on-site attendance and projects

Who it is for

Co-Managed Essential

You already have an IT team, with first-line and engineering

Co-Managed Advanced · This plan

You have a technician organizing IT and need more day-to-day support

Dedicated IT Care

You want priority and consulting, even already having a team

The three plans are cumulative and require the proactively managed environment; the choice is by how much of the attendance your company already covers internally and by how fast you need the guaranteed start. All are Zamak's, sized by device type.

Risk, impact and response

For every stall in the routine, the engineering alongside and a faster clock

Risk scenarioWhat is at stakeHow the Advanced Plan responds
The routine takes the whole day, and the queue does not stop growingUser support stalls, and what moves the company never gets its turnThe engineering steps in shoulder to shoulder in the day-to-day and shares the volume, with unlimited hours and no new bill
A deep case shows up, and the company needs a fast responseWaiting hours on end for an attendance start with no deadlineA guaranteed start within 5 business hours, with the deep specialist behind your technical team
The deep case has no one to hand it to, and the queue waits behind itWhat needs depth is left for later, and the knowledge stays concentratedZamak is the deep engineering alongside, documented, and the big case now has somewhere to go
What would improve IT is always left for later, and the environment piles up debtThe same problems return, and each month gets harder than the lastWith the engineering alongside and the environment kept healthy proactively, there is time to standardize and improve

The routine takes the whole day, and the queue does not stop growing

User support stalls, and what moves the company never gets its turn

How the Advanced Plan responds

The engineering steps in shoulder to shoulder in the day-to-day and shares the volume, with unlimited hours and no new bill

A deep case shows up, and the company needs a fast response

Waiting hours on end for an attendance start with no deadline

How the Advanced Plan responds

A guaranteed start within 5 business hours, with the deep specialist behind your technical team

The deep case has no one to hand it to, and the queue waits behind it

What needs depth is left for later, and the knowledge stays concentrated

How the Advanced Plan responds

Zamak is the deep engineering alongside, documented, and the big case now has somewhere to go

What would improve IT is always left for later, and the environment piles up debt

The same problems return, and each month gets harder than the last

How the Advanced Plan responds

With the engineering alongside and the environment kept healthy proactively, there is time to standardize and improve

The engineering, the guaranteed start and the managed foundation are Zamak's; the command of the day-to-day stays with your technical team.

For every decision maker

What this plan means for whoever decides

Placing the engineering alongside your technical team, with a faster start and a predictable cost, solves a different pain for each role.

Owner and founder

More IT capacity and less risk, for a predictable cost

Your company grew, and the IT routine started consuming the technical team's day, with no time left for what moves the business. With the Advanced, the engineering steps into the day-to-day alongside the team, with a predictable cost and unlimited attendance hours, and you reduce the dependency on a few people: good people stay where there is reinforcement. It is unlocking growth without building an entire team from scratch.

Executives and management

More IT capacity without more headcount, and a faster SLA

You expand the attendance capacity without opening a role: Zamak's engineering steps into the day-to-day alongside your technical team, with a guaranteed start within 5 business hours and managerial reports that show what came in and what was resolved. The cost becomes a predictable line, and the technical team gains time for what moves the company, with the engineering and the deep specialist a ticket away.

Internal IT technician and leader

The reinforcement you were missing, and the control stays yours

You finally have someone to share the day with: the engineering alongside for the routine volume and the deep specialist for the big case. You gain time for the work that shrinks the queue, a net for the peaks, the holidays and the weekend, and a faster clock. And you stay the owner of the operation, with the knowledge of your environment. Zamak steps in alongside, never in your place.

IT partner

Offer day-to-day engineering with Zamak as the technical reinforcement behind the scenes

Offer your clients day-to-day engineering plus the deep specialist, with a faster guaranteed start and unlimited hours, over an environment kept healthy. Zamak stays behind the scenes as the technical reinforcement; the relationship with the client stays yours.

Why Zamak

The engineering of people who operate and protect IT every day, alongside your technical team

Zamak Technologies steps in alongside your technical team, as the engineering for the day-to-day and the deep specialist for the big case, over an environment it keeps healthy proactively. It is the same engineering and the same experience that sustain the IT operation of many companies, now sharing the day with your team, with a faster start and unlimited hours, for a predictable monthly fee.

It is years of experience caring for companies' IT, with specialists who serve in Portuguese, English and Spanish. It is your engineering and your point of contact, alongside your technical team, never in its place.

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Attendance conducted on infrastructure certified to SOC 2 and ISO 27001, compliant with HIPAA and PCI-DSS.

Frequently asked questions

What companies ask before signing up

The Advanced includes everything in the Essential and adds two things. First, the engineering steps into the day-to-day, alongside your technical team, not only when the case escalates: user and email accounts, licenses, software, backup follow-up, the routine volume. Second, the guaranteed start to attendance gets faster, within 5 business hours, against the 8 of the Essential. The Essential is for those who already have a team with first-line and engineering; the Advanced is for those who have their own technical team and want the engineering in the day-to-day.
There is one, and it is an honest one: your environment needs to be managed proactively, because that is what keeps incidents low and makes unlimited attendance sustainable. That is why the plan requires this foundation. Beyond that, within the contracted scope attendance has no ceiling of hours, and you do not count minutes or get a new bill with each ticket. The unlimited applies to attendance, not to migration projects or deep work, which are scoped apart.
Because unlimited attendance hours only hold up when incidents are few. The managed operation of the environment (monitoring, updating, automating) and the security protection address causes before they become a ticket. Without this foundation, unlimited attendance would turn into an endless chase after the same problems, and the engineering would spend the day firefighting instead of improving the environment. Requiring the foundation is what makes the promise honest and the cost predictable, for you and for Zamak.
Engineering is the level that configures and resolves the medium-complexity case. In this plan, it does not wait for the ticket to escalate: it steps into the routine alongside your technical team. In practice, that means creating and deactivating users, adjusting email accounts on Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace, supporting license acquisition, quoting new equipment, installing and configuring market software and following up on backup. It is the volume that consumes the routine, now shared with real engineering, with the deep specialist behind for the big case.
The Advanced is designed for those with their own technical team doing first-line who want the engineering in the day-to-day, with the deep specialist behind and a faster start. If your company also has engineering in-house and only wants the deep specialist's backline, the entry point is the Essential plan. If you want first-line user support provided by Zamak, priority, consulting and on-site attendance, the Dedicated is the right one. In the conversation, we help you choose.
The environment's monitoring and automation run around the clock, every day, so the watching and the prevention do not depend on the time. The human attendance of the engineering and the deep specialist, in this plan, is during business hours, with a guaranteed start within 5 business hours. Those who need wider attendance windows, priority and an even faster start find that in the Dedicated plan.
The plan is sized by device type, servers, workstations, firewalls, Microsoft 365 and other network devices, each with its line on the proposal, so the cost reflects the real size of your environment. The amount is on request, set after understanding your scenario, and the monthly fee stays predictable. It starts with a conversation to size the scope; from there, the engineering is alongside your technical team, and you can move up to the Dedicated plan as the company grows.

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The engineering that was missing in the routine, alongside your technical team

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