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Born in New York City. Built for the World.

Founded in Midtown Manhattan in 2000 by Manuel Ruiz. 25 years later, we're still founder-led, still NYC-rooted, and now serving clients across the Americas, Europe, and Asia.

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Midtown Manhattan: Where It All Started

In 2000, Manuel Ruiz started Intelligent iT from a small office in Midtown Manhattan with a simple belief: businesses deserve IT that actually works. No jargon. No excuses. Just results.

New York City doesn't tolerate mediocrity. When a Wall Street firm's network goes down, minutes cost millions. When a healthcare practice loses access to patient records, lives are at stake. We were forged in that pressure — and it shaped everything about how we operate today.

25 years later, we're still headquartered in Midtown, still founder-led, and still obsessed with the same thing: keeping businesses running.

Manhattan skyline at dusk

Midtown Manhattan — the commercial heart of the world's most demanding city

Part of New York's Tech Legacy

NYC is the #2 tech hub in the United States, home to over 25,000 tech companies and 400,000 tech workers. From Bloomberg to MongoDB, Datadog to Etsy — some of the world's most important technology companies were born here. Intelligent iT is part of that tradition: a grassroots company that started small, built real solutions, and grew into something that serves businesses worldwide.

2000Founded in Midtown Manhattan
25+Years of continuous operation
3Continents with active clients
100%Founder-led since day one

NYC Roots. Global Reach.

What started as a New York operation has grown into a global capability. We serve clients and maintain teams not only across the United States but in Europe and Asia. Our hub-and-spoke model keeps strategic leadership and innovation in NYC while positioning teams across time zones for follow-the-sun support.

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New York City

Global Headquarters

Midtown Manhattan, NY

Leadership, strategy, engineering, and innovation. The nerve center of everything we build.

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The Americas

National Presence

Satellite offices and teams across the U.S.

Regional coverage spanning East Coast, West Coast, and everything in between. Supporting finance, healthcare, legal, construction, and technology sectors coast to coast.

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Europe & Asia

International Operations

Distributed teams across multiple time zones

Follow-the-sun engineering and support capabilities. Enabling 24/7 monitoring, global infrastructure management, and round-the-clock threat response for clients worldwide.

Why Being NYC-Born Matters

Pressure-Tested

If you can keep a Wall Street trading floor running at 99.9% uptime, you can keep anyone running. NYC businesses demand the best — and that standard is baked into our DNA.

Industry Diversity

Finance, healthcare, media, legal, construction, tech — NYC is every industry compressed into five boroughs. We've supported them all, and that cross-industry expertise travels with us everywhere.

Compliance Capital

NYDFS, SOX, HIPAA, SOC 2, CMMC — New York's regulatory environment is among the strictest in the world. We built our compliance practice in the most regulated market in America.

Always-On Culture

The city that never sleeps raised a company that never stops. Our 24/7 monitoring and 2-minute response time aren't marketing claims — they're survival traits learned in the most demanding market on earth.

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We started in a small office in Midtown with one client and one belief: that IT should empower businesses, not hold them back. Twenty-five years later, that belief hasn't changed. The scale has.

Manuel Ruiz

Manuel Ruiz

Founder & CEO

From New York to the World — Let's Talk

Whether you're across the street in Midtown or across the globe, every engagement starts with a conversation. Book a free IT strategy session with our team.

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