# About Knockout Networks | Northern Virginia IT Company

> A Herndon, VA IT company for small businesses: flat-rate managed IT support and fixed-scope projects from senior engineers. Formerly Biz-Focus.

HTML version: https://knockout-networks.com/about/

## A small Northern Virginia IT company, built for small Northern Virginia businesses.

We are based in Herndon and we work with teams of one to fifty people — mostly under twenty. The engineer who scopes your work is the engineer who does it, and the engineer you reach when it breaks.

## Why we work the way we do.

Small businesses get squeezed from two directions. National providers price for a headcount they do not have, put a script reader on the phone, and route everything through three handoffs before it reaches somebody who knows the network. The one-person shop down the road is cheaper and often excellent, but there is no bench when they are on vacation, in a hospital, or simply out of depth on a firewall.

We built Knockout Networks to sit in between: senior engineers you can actually reach, priced for a six-person office rather than a six-hundred-person one, with enough of a team that the answer is never "our guy is out."

The second thing we fixed is the contract trap. Most providers will only touch your cabling, phones, or office move if you also sign a multi-year support agreement. We quote project work on its own, hand over labels, diagrams, and credentials at the end, and let the ongoing support conversation happen on its own merits — or not at all.

## How we work

### You talk to the engineer

The person who walked your space and wrote the scope is the person doing the work. No tiered script reading, no re-explaining your network to a new name every time.

### The number is in writing first

Flat monthly rate per person for support; fixed price after a walkthrough for projects. Exclusions written down instead of discovered as change orders.

### No hostage-taking

Projects never require a support contract, support never requires a project, and everything we install is documented and handed to you — including your own credentials.

### Local enough to show up

Herndon-based, so Reston, Fairfax, Chantilly, Centreville, Sterling, Ashburn, Tysons, and Vienna are a drive, not a dispatch fee. Day-to-day support stays remote-first because it is faster.

## Knockout Networks, formerly Biz-Focus.

Knockout Networks is the current name of the business that operated as Biz-Focus, with roots going back to Technical Knockout. Same engineers, same DMV service area — a sharper focus on managed IT, security, project delivery, and practical AI for small businesses.

If you found us through an old name, an old email domain, or a bookmark that redirected here, you are in the right place. Existing agreements, phone numbers, and support contacts carried over unchanged.

## When we are not the right call.

- Enterprises with hundreds of seats and a full internal IT department — we work alongside internal IT, but we are not a staff-augmentation shop at that scale.
- Anyone who needs a licensed low-voltage crew running conduit through occupied structural walls. We do structured cabling; heavy construction trades are a different license.
- Compliance sign-off. We implement and document HIPAA, CMMC, and Safeguards Rule technical controls; your counsel or assessor decides whether you have met the legal bar.
- Businesses well outside driving range that need hands-on work. We will say so rather than sell a plan we cannot service properly.

## Contact

- Website: https://knockout-networks.com/
- About (HTML): https://knockout-networks.com/about/
- Phone: (703) 493-0536
- Email: hello@knockout-networks.com
- Estimate form: https://knockout-networks.com/#contact