Nobody owns it
Your "IT guy" is whoever is least busy that day. Nothing is documented, and every fix depends on one person remembering how things work.
FNLY IT LLC — Long Beach, California
Managed IT for small and mid-sized businesses in Southern California: helpdesk, Microsoft 365, security, backups. One partner, one flat monthly rate, and a person who picks up the phone.
No slides, no pressure. If we can't help, we say so on the call.
Sound familiar?
Your "IT guy" is whoever is least busy that day. Nothing is documented, and every fix depends on one person remembering how things work.
A password reset, a printer, a new laptop for the new hire. And your team waits. Daily IT should be handled the same day, not "when someone gets to it."
You pay for Microsoft 365, but mail rules, security settings, and device management were never configured properly. You use maybe a third of what you already own.
Shared passwords, no MFA, and ex-employees whose accounts still work. Access is the front door of your business, and right now it is unlocked.
Most break-ins start with a stolen login; most disasters end with a backup that does not restore. We test the restore before you need it.
Seats for people who left, tools nobody opened, three products doing the same job. We audit what you pay for and cut what you don't use. That alone often covers our fee.
What we run
Pick a scope, from helpdesk-only to fully managed. Most clients hand us all of it.
Tools of the trade
Microsoft 365 · Entra ID · Intune · Exchange Online · Teams · SharePoint · OneDrive. Set up properly, hardened, and run daily. This is our home turf.
Microsoft Defender for Business · ESET · conditional access · BitLocker encryption. Managed on every device we touch, with alerts that reach a human.
Veeam backup · TeamViewer remote support · CodeTwo mail signatures · documented runbooks. The unglamorous tooling that keeps promises like "tested restore" true.
Microsoft 365 Copilot · Azure OpenAI · Anthropic Claude · Power Automate. We build and run our own AI tools internally, so we can tell you per role whether a license earns its money.
UniFi networking · Windows Server · Active Directory · file and print services. The layer nobody thinks about until the Wi-Fi drops or a file server stops answering.
Google Workspace (including migrations to 365) · QuickBooks · Slack · Zoom · Dropbox · Adobe Acrobat · macOS & iOS. If your team runs it, we support it and deal with the vendor for you.
We run these tools in our own companies before we run them in yours. If something is not on this list, we say so instead of improvising.
Our specialty
Then you know this: your IT decisions are made nine hours ahead of your morning. We are the partner built for exactly that.
Both languagesYour GM talks to us in English, your parent company's IT lead in German. No translation layer, nothing lost in between.
Both time zonesWe operate from Long Beach and Borken, Germany. Your site gets California hours; your headquarters gets answers before its day ends.
Compliance the parent can fileGDPR and NIS2 risk reports for the US site, written the way German auditors expect them.
Sounds like your business?Twenty minutes on the phone. If it makes sense, we follow up with a free read-only assessment of your setup: written report, yours to keep.
Book a 20-minute callWho you would be dealing with
Fabian Steffen Schmid
Founder & Technical Lead
Fabian runs Microsoft 365 environments, device fleets, and security hardening for companies in Germany, plus the high-availability infrastructure behind FNLY's own software products. Now on the ground in Long Beach, backed by the FNLY Group team in Germany. English and German.
From $175 / user / month
Priced for your size; small offices get a simple flat-rate package. Onboarding is quoted separately, fixed, in advance. Twelve-month agreement, then it renews month-to-month.
New here, not new to this.
We would rather lose the deal than describe work we have not done.
And when we say finally done, we mean it: set up properly, written down, handed over on request. If you ever leave, your documentation leaves with you.
Where we go deep
The story behind the name
The name is a tribute to our son Finley, born in March 2025 with septo-optic dysplasia (SOD), a rare condition that means he needs extensive medical support. We founded FNLY as a promise to him: to finally build something that matters, and to help others the way we were helped.
FAQ
Yes. FNLY IT LLC is based in Long Beach, the (562) number rings here, and Fabian is on the ground, backed by the FNLY Group engineering team in Germany. Monitoring runs 24/7 regardless of time zone.
From $175 per user per month; smaller offices get a simple flat-rate package. Onboarding is quoted once, fixed, in advance. Twelve-month agreement, then month-to-month. No hourly surprises.
All the work: helpdesk with a person who picks up, 24/7 monitoring, patching and updates, device management, the full Microsoft 365 administration including identity and access (MFA, permissions, employee on- and offboarding), backups that get tested, and documentation that belongs to you. Software licenses such as Microsoft 365 are a separate line at list price; we manage them, we do not hide fees in them. Hardware and one-off projects are quoted separately, fixed, in advance.
Start with the 20-minute call. If it makes sense, we do a read-only assessment of your setup and you get a short written report. If it says you are in good hands, great: you spent twenty minutes and gained a second opinion.
For a typical 10–50-person Microsoft 365 company: days, not months. We document as we go, so you are never dependent on us. That is deliberate.
Contact
We answer every inquiry within one business hour, Pacific time.
Long Beach, CA
On site across Greater LA and Orange County. Remote and by arrangement on site in San Diego County.
Am Kraftwerk 23
34582 Borken, Germany