MSP & IT Consulting · Bay Area

Digital transformation.
Serious security. One partner.

Fast Bay Solutions modernizes and protects Bay Area startups and small-to-medium businesses — cloud migration, automation and AI, and cybersecurity built on the latest EDR/XDR technology — backed by full managed IT support.

// Fast Bay Solutions — a Managed Solution Provider. Support & consulting.
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Client environment ● Monitored 24/7
Network & firewall SECURED
Endpoints · EDR/XDR PROTECTED
Cloud backups LAST RUN: 02:00
Email & Microsoft 365 OPERATIONAL
We support all the big-name apps. And more.
Microsoft Azure Microsoft Office Smartsheet Autodesk Paylocity Ubiquiti UniFi n8n ServiceNow Google Workspace Zoom HubSpot Adobe Power BI Zendesk

Everything your business needs from an IT department

One partner for support, security, and infrastructure — instead of juggling vendors or fixing things yourself.

01 · Transformation — Our flagship

Digital transformation, end to end

Digital transformation means moving your business from manual, disconnected, paper-and-spreadsheet ways of working to digital, connected, automated ones — whatever your industry and whatever tools you use today. We assess how your business actually runs, build the roadmap, and do the work. And we've done it at scale: our founder led a 500-person manufacturer's complete transformation, from back office to the factory floor.

We're platform-agnostic — Microsoft, Google, or open-source — we fit the technology to your business, never the other way around.

  • Modernize infrastructure — out of aging servers and filing cabinets, into the cloud
  • Digitize processes — paper forms and manual steps become digital workflows
  • Connect your systems — data flows between your apps instead of being retyped
  • Automate the repetitive — approvals, reports, and data entry that run themselves
  • Adopt AI practically — applied where it saves real time, with training that sticks
  • See your business live — dashboards and reporting from your actual data
02 · Security

Cybersecurity · EDR/XDR

Modern endpoint and network defense: EDR/XDR detection and response, conditional access, SSO, phishing simulations, and security training for your staff.

03 · Cloud

Azure & Microsoft 365

Migration, architecture, and full administration of the Microsoft ecosystem — Azure, Intune MDM, Teams, SharePoint, and identity done right.

04 · Support

Managed IT support

Helpdesk for your team, proactive maintenance built on ITIL practices, and on-site visits when remote isn't enough — at a flat, predictable rate.

05 · Infrastructure

Network design & hardware

Enterprise-grade wired and wireless networks — VLANs, routing, and security standards — plus procurement and installation of the hardware to match.

06 · Continuity

Backup & disaster recovery

Automated, verified backups with a tested recovery plan and incident response process, so a failure or attack never becomes a catastrophe.

07 · Strategy

IT strategy & consulting

A technology roadmap and budget aligned to your business goals — vendor management, licensing audits, and a plan for what to invest in and when.

Technology should make you money — not quietly drain it.

Spend less

Most businesses are overpaying for licenses they don't use and vendors they don't need. We audit every contract, subscription, and seat — then negotiate, consolidate, and cut the waste. Our clients routinely fund their entire IT budget with what we find.

Stay running

Every hour of downtime is payroll burned and customers lost. With 24/7 monitoring, proactive maintenance, and tested recovery plans, problems get fixed before your team ever feels them — so the business just keeps moving.

Work smarter

There are thousands of business apps. Maybe five are right for you. We map how your team actually works, then select, integrate, and automate the tools that fit — no shelfware, no busywork, just workflows that flow.

The complete IT lifecycle — one partner, end to end
Plan→ Procure→ Deploy→ Secure→ Support→ Optimize→ Refresh
AI & Automation

Put AI to work. Get hours back every week.

Your team is spending a quarter of its week on email, reports, and copy-paste busywork. We implement Microsoft Copilot and Claude, build custom automations and mini-apps, and connect your systems with AI agents — so the busywork runs itself and payroll hours go toward work that makes money.

29%
faster on everyday tasks — searching, writing, summarizing — with AI assistance (Microsoft)
3 hrs
saved per employee, per week, on email alone in Microsoft's 6,000-worker Copilot study
116%
ROI on Microsoft 365 Copilot estimated in Forrester's Total Economic Impact study
86%
of employers expect AI to transform their business by 2030 (World Economic Forum)
Finance
  • Invoice & expense processing on autopilot
  • Real-time Power BI dashboards from your ERP
  • Month-end reports drafted, not built by hand
HR
  • Onboarding & offboarding fully automated
  • Policy Q&A chatbot trained on your handbook
  • Reviews and job posts drafted in minutes
Marketing
  • Content drafts, campaigns & social on schedule
  • CRM data enriched and deduped automatically
  • Performance reporting without the spreadsheet grind
Sales
  • Leads scored, routed & followed up instantly
  • Meeting notes into your CRM automatically
  • Quotes and proposals generated from templates

What AI assistance delivers

Reported gains from published studies of workplace AI
Everyday tasks
+29%
Collaborative work
+20%
Email time reduced
−64%
Coding tasks
+55%
Sources: Microsoft Work Trend Index & WorkLab studies; GitHub Copilot controlled trial; Forrester TEI of Microsoft 365 Copilot.

Private AI, on your own hardware

Not everything belongs in the cloud. We build and deploy on-premise AI servers running local language models (Ollama), with n8n agents automating your workflows entirely inside your network — your data never leaves the building, and there's no per-seat subscription bleeding your budget.

Need a tool that doesn't exist? We build mini-apps: inventory lookups, quote calculators, internal dashboards — purpose-built for how your business actually runs.

Copilot Claude Ollama · local LLMs n8n agents Custom mini-apps

How we work

No jargon, no surprise invoices, no waiting days for a callback.

STEP 1

Assess

We audit your current setup — network, devices, security, backups — and give you a plain-English report of what's solid and what's at risk.

STEP 2

Stabilize

We fix the urgent gaps first: security holes, failing hardware, missing backups. Your environment gets monitored from day one.

STEP 3

Manage

Ongoing support and maintenance at a flat monthly rate. You call one number, and it gets handled — fast.

Enterprise experience, built for startups and SMBs

Fast Bay Solutions is founder-led by an IT executive with 16+ years running technology across industries — including taking a 500-person manufacturer fully into the cloud, implementing ERP, and building its security program from the ground up. We bring that enterprise playbook to startups and small-to-medium businesses.

Industry experience
Finance Retail Big Pharma Healthcare Manufacturing Construction Manufacturing
Practices & certifications
ITIL Foundations Microsoft Azure (AZ-900) Agile / CAPM project delivery FEMA incident management

Let's talk about your IT

Tell us a bit about your business and what's not working. We'll get back to you within one business day — usually much faster.

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