F09 Tech
Open-source-first IT

Stop renting your business from Big Tech

Three offerings, one philosophy: own your stack, cut the recurring SaaS bills, and let us handle the operations. We're not cheaper IT — we're a different model.

Three core offerings

One philosophy, three ways to engage

Most clients start with a Liberation Project, then move to Managed Private Cloud and Network & Security to keep things running. You can engage on any one without the others.

One-time · Free audit
SaaS Liberation Projects

We audit your last 12 months of SaaS spend, identify what's earning its keep and what isn't, then migrate the underperformers onto a managed open-source stack. Typical savings 30–60% over 3 years.

  • Free 12-month spend audit
  • Migration with parallel-running rollback at every step
  • Documented handover — you own the result
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Recurring · Per-user flat pricing
Managed Private Cloud

Files, chat, automation, mail — running on infrastructure you own, maintained by us. Nextcloud, n8n, Mattermost, and friends, glued together with Proxmox + Ceph and run by people who do this for a living.

  • Nextcloud, n8n, chat, optional mail
  • Daily backups, monitoring, patching
  • Predictable per-user fee, no surprise overages
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Recurring · Built on open standards
Network & Security

Mesh networking with Netbird, hardened endpoints, firewall management, real backups, and security monitoring — the layer that keeps your team connected and your data protected.

  • Netbird mesh VPN replaces per-user VPN bills
  • Endpoint hardening + patching on every device
  • Backups that are actually tested
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Why we built it this way

The villain isn't your IT bill. It's your subscription stack.

A 10-person business often spends $2,000–$4,000 a month on per-seat SaaS — Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace, Dropbox, Slack, Zapier, Zoom, a VPN service, a password manager, a CRM. Every month, forever, with prices that go up and never down.

Most of those tools have mature open-source equivalents — Nextcloud, n8n, Mattermost, Vaultwarden, EspoCRM — running on the same Proxmox / Ceph technology pattern hyperscalers use. The reason small businesses don't run them isn't quality. It's that nobody wants to be the IT person who babysits a stack at 2 a.m.

That's the bet we're making. We do the operations work on the line items where the math is lopsided — file storage, automation, identity, password management, per-user VPN. We leave the SaaS that earns its bill (Slack for customer-facing teams, M365 for cross-org work, accounting, payroll) alone. The math usually wins by 30–60% — and you stop training new staff on five different SaaS dashboards.

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Supporting capabilities

We also do consulting, hyperscaler cloud work, and one-off engagements when they're the right call. The three core offerings above are the wedge — these wrap around them.

IT Consulting
Strategic guidance, architecture reviews, and technology roadmaps.
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Managed IT Services
Day-to-day support, help desk, and proactive maintenance.
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Cloud Solutions
Hyperscaler when it makes sense — AWS, Azure, GCP — sized to your workload.
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Cybersecurity Engagements
Security assessments, hardening, and compliance preparation work.
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Data Analytics
Dashboards, reporting pipelines, and insights from data you already have.
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Custom Software
Tailored applications when off-the-shelf doesn't fit.
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Network Solutions
Site design, switching, and Wi-Fi for offices and multi-site businesses.
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Backup & Recovery
Tested backups, immutable off-site copies, and documented restore procedures.
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IT Staff Augmentation
Engineering capacity to extend your in-house team on a project basis.
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