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We Don't Do IT. We Live It.

About Axus Networks: we are a Los Angeles IT company with 15+ years of IT excellence. Since 2011, over 500 Southern California businesses have trusted us to keep their technology running, their data safe, and their teams productive with zero corporate red tape.

500+

Businesses Protected

Active managed clients

15+

Years, Zero Breaches

Founded 2011, LA-based

99.99%

Uptime Guaranteed

SLA-backed commitment

15 min

Response, or It's Free

Critical issues only

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Our Story

From a Burbank Garage to 500+ Clients

Axus didn't start with venture funding or a grand plan. It started with one engineer who got tired of watching small businesses get ignored by big IT companies. Fifteen years later, we're still that engineer, just with a much bigger team.

2011

One Guy, One Mission

Axus started in Burbank with a simple idea: small businesses should have the same capable IT tools and support as larger organizations, without the big-company price tag.

2012

100 Clients Who Stayed

Hit triple digits and learned the most important lesson: retention beats acquisition. We still serve clients from year one.

2015

Cybersecurity Gets Serious

Launched a dedicated SOC with 24/7 threat monitoring after seeing too many SMBs get breached by preventable attacks.

2018

Cloud, Not Hype

Expanded Microsoft 365 and Azure planning, migration, administration, and support for Southern California businesses.

2021

500 Businesses, 40+ Engineers

Grew the team to match demand while keeping the personal touch that made us different in the first place.

2024

AI-Powered, Human-Led

Integrated AI-driven threat detection and predictive maintenance, because the best problems are the ones you never have.

Our Values

What Drives Us Every Day

Security Is Non-Negotiable

In every recommendation and every design, we assume your data is a target. Because it is.

Quarterly Technology Review

We evaluate 50+ tools a quarter and recommend the ones that improve security, reliability, or cost.

Partners, Not Vendors

We sit in your strategy meetings. We know your team's names. That's the difference.

Radical Honesty

If you don't need it, we won't sell it. Our reputation is worth more than any upsell.

15 Minutes or Less

Average response time. Not a marketing claim: it's in our SLA, and we publish the data.

Built to Scale With You

Adding 10 employees next quarter? Opening a second office? We've already planned for it.

Leadership

Meet the Team Behind Axus

Jonathan Steveson

CEO & Founder

Founded Axus at 24 with nothing but a laptop and a vision. Now leads a 40-person team obsessed with making IT invisible.

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Sarah Chen

VP of Engineering

Ex-Microsoft. Architected cloud migrations for 200+ businesses and hasn't lost a byte of data yet.

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Marcus Johnson

Director of Cybersecurity

CISSP. Built SOC operations for Fortune 500s, then brought that firepower to businesses that actually need it.

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Priya Patel

Head of Client Success

Your single point of contact. She knows your infrastructure better than your last IT provider did.

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Want to Build Something That Matters?

We're hiring engineers and strategists who'd rather solve real problems for real businesses than push tickets at a soulless MSP.

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