About Missouri Managed IT Services

Why this directory exists

We built this directory because choosing an IT provider is hard to do well. Most business owners do it once every few years, often after something has gone wrong. The usual starting point is a search that returns a mix of repair shops, national franchises, software firms and managed IT providers, with little to tell them apart.

So we sorted them. We started from public business records across Missouri and the Kansas City area, read each provider's own website, and answered the same 13 questions for every one: whether it sells managed IT, whether it has a 24/7 help desk, whether it comes on site, whether it handles backup and security, how it prices, and more. We took out businesses that plainly are not IT providers for businesses.

We kept the method plain so you can check it. A yes needs the provider's own words. When a website does not say, we mark it as not enough information rather than guess. Every list is ordered by the same rule, printed on the page. We do not verify claims, and a listing is not an endorsement. The point is to give you a shorter list and better questions for the first call.

Who publishes it and who it works for

Missouri Managed IT Services is published by FlywheelIQ, a marketing company. ThrottleNet, a managed IT provider with offices in St. Louis and Kansas City, is a FlywheelIQ client. ThrottleNet is listed and scored by the same rule as every other provider. On Kansas City area pages and St. Louis suburb pages it also appears in a position labelled Featured. That position sits above the ranked list and outside it. The ranked lists have no paid positions and no client positions. No provider pays for a place in the ranking, and there are no paid listings.

Every listing starts as a public Google Maps business record in one of three categories: computer support and services, computer security service, or computer consultant. A record stays in only if it has at least one review and was updated in the last year. Where one business shows up more than once, the records are merged.

Next, we read each provider's own website: the home page and up to three inner pages. From those pages we answer 13 buyer questions, such as whether the provider offers a 24/7 help desk, co-managed IT or backup and disaster recovery. A yes needs the provider's own words. If the pages do not say, the answer is not enough information, which is not the same as no.