Transparent pricing
Published per-endpoint rates. You know what you pay before you call us. Every line on your invoice is one you already saw on the price list.
The IT partner that actually picks up.
We are locally owned and independently funded, a local team that has been here for two decades because we do right by the businesses we serve.
Why we work this way / the short version
The honest one, from day one.
Arizona Computer Guru started with one person and one stubborn idea. Mike Swanson grew up around computers in the early 1980s, back when almost no one had one in the house. His dad was in the chip business, so the machines showed up early, and Mike was hooked. He taught himself everything he could get his hands on. By 17 he was running the network for a county agency, and on weekends he went looking for tougher problems on purpose, the ones he did not know how to solve yet.
What he kept seeing off the clock is what bothered him. People would take a computer to a repair shop, get told something outlandish, and pay an outrageous price to get the problem only half fixed. Back then hardly anyone understood these machines, so they believed whatever the person behind the counter said. Mike could not stand watching it happen.
So he did something about it. He put an ad in the newspaper: "I'll fix your computer, better than any of these other guys." The phone started ringing, he quit his job, and Computer Guru was born.
"I couldn't stand watching people get taken advantage of just because they didn't know how a computer worked. Fixing that is the whole reason we opened our doors."
That is still the whole point. What drives us is the opposite instinct: use what we know to put you on level ground. An honest IT company ought to be ordinary. We built this one to be exactly that ordinary. We built Arizona Computer Guru to be that honest team: straight answers, fair prices, and people who treat you with respect whether you are asking about a server migration or a printer that will not stop jamming.
More than two decades later we look after businesses across Arizona, from small offices to busy practices and job sites. We still fix things when they break, we still run entire networks for the clients who want that handled, and either way you get the same team and the same honest billing. We are still locally owned, not an out-of-state acquisition wearing a familiar name, and we still answer our own phones.
What concierge means, concretely / five choices
The promises
behind the work.
Local team
A real office at 7437 E. 22nd St since 2001. When your server dies at 3pm you want someone at your door by 3:45. We can usually be onsite within an hour or two.
Ahead of the problem
24/7 monitoring, automated patching, and alerts that reach us before they reach you. The goal is that most problems are handled before you would have thought to call.
Month-to-month terms
Month to month, with 30 days' notice whenever you want it. If we stop earning your business, you are free to go. We would rather keep you by choice.
Plain English, always
We are kind, direct, and honest, and every question gets a real answer.
On the air / Arizona's tech talk
Arizona knows
the voice.
The show began the same way the company did. Mike listened to another tech program on the radio giving out answers that were flat wrong, and he could not let it stand. So he went to the nearest talk-radio station and bought air time to set the record straight. More than twenty years later, The Computer Guru Show still runs live every Saturday morning on KVOI 1030AM, taking calls from anyone with a tech question. No script, no screening for softballs, just the same honest answers you get as a client.
KVOI 1030AM
The Computer Guru Show
SATURDAYS
Live at 9AM
520-790-2040
Call in live with any tech question
Our standard
You might not choose us. That's okay. But you'll make a better decision because we told you the truth.
// Arizona Computer Guru
The first conversation is free / and it stays a conversation
Come see for yourself.
Stop by the office, or have us out to look at the server closet that runs hot and the printer that jams every Tuesday.