After the Sale
What happens to your team, clients, and company name after Vicinity Companies buys your MSP: the first week, the first 90 days, and the first year.
The Question That Matters Most
Every seller asks about price. The good ones ask harder about what happens the day after. Here’s that answer, specific enough to hold us to.
What Stays, What Changes
What stays
- Your team, their pay, and their local leaders. Offers before close, in writing.
- Your company's name, wherever it carries weight in your market.
- Client relationships and their existing points of contact.
- The community commitments your company has made: sponsorships, apprenticeships, the things a town notices.
- The service standards you set. They're most of what we paid for.
What changes
- The back-office weight comes off: payroll, benefits, insurance, vendor management move to us.
- Your team gets a deeper bench for after-hours coverage, escalations, and vacations that actually happen.
- Tooling gets upgraded where it helps and left alone where yours is better.
- Your role becomes whatever we agreed: transition, advisory, or a well-earned exit.
Walk the First Year
The announcement, done right
Your team hears the news from you and us together, with their written offers already in hand: same pay or better, their role, their manager. Top clients get personal calls on a sequence we planned with you; everyone else gets a letter that names what stays the same before it mentions anything new.
The most important work this week is answering questions honestly, including "will I still have a job?" (yes, and here's the paper that says so) and "does our contact change?" (no).
Stability first, integration second
Payroll, benefits, and insurance move to Vicinity's back office, which most teams experience as better benefits and fewer administrative headaches. Service delivery stays untouched while we learn how your shop actually works; nothing gets consolidated before it's understood.
Your people get access to a deeper bench: after-hours rotations spread across a bigger team, escalation engineers a call away, and the vacations that never quite happened before. This is also when your own role settles into whatever the deal defined.
The company, still itself, with more behind it
A year in, the test is simple: do clients describe the company the way they did before the sale? Tooling has been upgraded only where your team agreed it helped. The name is still on the door where it carries weight. Growth investments (new service lines, hires, certifications) come from an owner planning in decades, not quarters.
This is also when sellers on an earnout or advisory arrangement see the model from the inside, and when the promises made at close have either held or haven't. Ask any owner who's been through it with us; we'll make the introduction.
The Public Record
Vicinity’s acquisition of DanTech Services, an Anchorage MSP with two decades of history, is on the record: the team, the clients, and the community standing all came with it, on purpose. We’d rather show you than tell you.
Ask Us the Hard Version
Bring the sharpest question you have about your team's future. Specific answers are the point of the first conversation.