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A practical guide to choosing a local managed IT provider: how to verify a provider is genuinely local, spot spam and fake reviews, dodge contract lock-in and hidden fees, and run a vetting checklist before you sign.

A practical breakdown of who owns which tools in a co-managed IT setup - RMM, PSA, ITSM, endpoint, security, and backup - so your internal team and MSP stop stepping on each other.

February 2026. $1 trillion in SaaS market cap vanishes across early-to-mid February. The $285 billion cybersecurity wipeout was triggered by Claude Cowork's legal automation launch on Feb 3 (the "SaaSpocalypse"), with a separate cybersecurity-specific selloff following Claude Code Security on Feb 20. And somewhere in the wreckage, a 15-year-old assumption quietly dies: that SaaS vendors can raise prices forever because their customers have nowhere else to go.

Most MSPs didn't plan to become middlemen. But somewhere along the way, that's exactly what happened. You started out solving real problems for clients. Building networks. Fixing servers. Making technology work when it wouldn't. Then the vendors showed up with their "partner programs" and suddenly you were selling someone else's vision, marked up just enough to cover your overhead. The promise was simple: focus on the relationship, we'll handle the product. It sounded good. Until you realized the product was handling you.