Why a second door
Most companies buy software like they buy snacks.
A card on file at four vendors, three renewal dates nobody owns, and a seat count that stopped matching the payroll two hires ago. When something breaks, the license and the support live in different buildings.
Unified NW puts the purchasing and the support on the same line item. You add a recurring, pass-through license through us and the managed monthly support for that license comes with it — same contract, same invoice, same technician who already knows your tenant.
Licensing & subscriptions
Microsoft 365, Defender, RMM agents, managed SOC, backup, MFA, DNS filtering, UCaaS seats. Added or removed mid-month and pro-rated, not renegotiated.
Internet & connectivity
Dedicated fiber, business broadband, SD-WAN overlay, 5G failover, SIP trunks and static IP blocks — sourced across carriers, monitored by us.
Procurement & projects
Workstations, servers, switches, firewalls, cameras, perpetual licensing and the labor to stand it all up. Quoted, staged, imaged, delivered.
Three elevations
Pick how far up you want us.
Licensing costs the same at every elevation — you always pay what we pay. What changes is how much of the running, watching and fixing sits with us.
Consolidated billing
- All licensing at pass-through cost
- One monthly invoice, one renewal calendar
- Seat adds and removals within one business day
- Vendor escalation on your behalf
- No monitoring or patching
- No helpdesk
Managed monthly support
- Everything in Trailhead
- 24/7 US-based helpdesk, Tier 1–3
- RMM monitoring and patch management
- Backup configured and verified daily
- Onboarding and offboarding runbooks
- Quarterly stack and spend review
Co-managed security operations
- Everything in Timberline
- Managed SOC with 24/7 threat hunting
- Endpoint detection and response, tuned
- Security awareness training and phishing tests
- Annual penetration test and remediation plan
- Cyber-liability evidence pack for your insurer
Elevations are how we talk about scope internally — Trailhead is the parking lot, Summit is the exposed ridge. Move between them at any renewal.
Estimator
See the whole monthly number before you talk to anyone.
Set your user count, pick the licenses you already run or want to run, and the tier. Licensing and support total up together, because that is how the invoice arrives.
Showing the eight most-ordered SKUs. The full catalog runs to 400+ — see the rate card.
The route
From first call to first invoice
No discovery theater. We look at what you already pay for, tell you what is redundant, and move the rest onto one agreement.
Send us your current bills
Vendor invoices, renewal dates, seat counts. A screenshot of your Microsoft admin center covers most of it.
We map the stack and the spend
You get a one-page picture of every subscription, what it costs, what overlaps, and what a consolidated bill looks like — typically within three business days.
Pick an elevation
Trailhead, Timberline or Summit. The licensing price is identical at all three, so this is purely a question of who carries the pack.
We migrate the tenancy
Subscriptions transfer to our partner tenant on your existing renewal dates. No reinstalls, no downtime, no lapse in coverage.
One invoice, first of the month
Line-itemed by SKU and seat count so you can see exactly what moved. Adds and removals pro-rate on the next cycle.
Authorizations
A certified reseller for the platforms your business already runs on.
We hold direct reseller and partner authorizations across the managed IT stack — which is why licensing can pass through at cost instead of through a middleman's margin.
Straight answers
Questions we get on the first call
What does "pass-through" actually mean?
You pay the same per-seat license price we pay our distributor, with no markup added to the license itself. Our revenue is the support tier, not a margin buried in your Microsoft bill. We will show you the distributor rate on request.
Do I have to move all of my licensing at once?
No. Subscriptions transfer at their own renewal dates, so most clients migrate over three to twelve months as terms come up. There is no early-termination charge on our side.
Am I locked into a contract?
Support tiers run month to month after an initial 90-day period. Licensing follows the vendor's term — most Microsoft and security SKUs are monthly; a few, like some Cisco and Verkada licenses, are annual. We flag every annual commitment in writing before you sign it.
What happens when I hire or lose someone?
Email or call the helpdesk. Seats are added within one business day and removed the same day, and the change pro-rates on your next invoice. You are never paying for a seat that walked out in March.
How is this different from activity3.llc?
Same company, same team, same phone numbers. Activity3 delivers managed IT, cybersecurity and custom software. Unified NW is the purchasing side — licensing, connectivity and hardware — so that buying and supporting sit on one agreement.
Do you support clients outside the Northwest?
Yes. We are headquartered in Southern Idaho with a second office outside Philadelphia, and we support clients in all 50 states. Remote support is US-based; on-site work runs through our nationwide field network.
Next step
Send us one invoice. We will tell you what it should cost.
No obligation and no pressure — if consolidating does not save you money, we will say so and you keep the analysis.