Founder & Operator

Emanuel Grozea

Founder, IT Works Group · Operating since 2015

I founded IT Works Group in 2015 with one conviction at the core: the relationship between a firm and its IT provider shouldn't feel like managing another vendor. It should feel like having a colleague who happens to run a different layer of the business — answering quickly, knowing the context, and showing up the way someone on your own payroll would. A decade in, that conviction has held up.

Today the firm runs IT for commercial real estate operators, law firms, accounting practices, financial services, AEC firms, and the broader professional services community. Some clients have no internal IT and use us as their full team. Some have a stretched internal lead and use us as their co-managed firepower. Some came to us already paying too much across too many vendors — we consolidated.

When something breaks, you call or email the engineer who actually runs your environment — not a script-reading dispatcher. When you need a strategic decision on tooling, licensing, or vendor selection, you talk to someone who knows what each option actually costs you and what it actually delivers. The person who picks up the phone is the person who knows your network.

Our work concentrates on the layer where most firms feel the IT problem most directly — the daily operation of the stack, the security posture that determines whether you sleep at night, the licensing line you're not sure is right-sized, and the projects that will make next year easier than this one was.

One principle hasn't changed since day one: clients should never feel like they're managing their MSP. The MSP should be managing the work, quietly, in the background, and showing up when it matters.

Areas of focus

  • Commercial real estate IT operations
  • Cybersecurity & cyber-insurance readiness
  • Microsoft 365 licensing & cloud strategy
  • Multi-site connectivity
  • M&A IT integration
  • Office moves & build-outs
What we believe

Three principles. No exceptions.

The values that shape how we hire, how we operate, and what we won't compromise on — even when it costs us a deal.

01

Senior engineers, not tickets.

The person who picks up the phone is the person who knows your network. That's the whole model. We don't run a tier-one queue, because tier-one queues exist to insulate engineers from clients — and that's the wrong direction.

02

The SLA is the floor, not the ceiling.

We respond and resolve faster than what's contracted because that's the bar we hold ourselves to. SLAs are a worst-case promise for our clients. We treat them as a minimum, not a target.

03

Your IT bill should be auditable.

Every line — licensing, circuits, projects — is right-sized quarterly. If you're paying for a seat someone left, we catch it before you do. If a carrier offers a better deal, we tell you. We don't take kickbacks.

What "embedded" means

We use the word deliberately.

Most MSPs say they're "your partner." That's a sales word. Embedded is an operating model. Here's what it actually looks like in practice.

We act like your team.

Sitting in your channels. Learning your systems. Attending your stand-ups when invited. Knowing the names of your people.

We carry the relationships.

You don't manage Microsoft licensing, call carriers, or chase vendor support. We do — and we shield your people from it.

We bill you once.

One predictable line. Not a stack of subscriptions, a dozen circuits, and surprise invoices spread across the month.

We don't sell tickets.

We sell teammates. The cost model and the operating model match. You're paying for outcomes, not for a queue.

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They're not our IT vendor. They're our IT team. We just don't pay them on payroll.

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2015
Operating since
24/7
Monitored security operations
6
Capability areas, one bill
100s
Of carrier options, zero kickbacks

Let's make IT simpler.

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