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White Label Linux engineering

White Label is our engagement for IT companies that provide Linux services to their own clients. Scope, services, and visibility are defined per engagement.

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What it is

What White Label is

White Label is our arrangement for other IT companies who need Linux expertise their in-house team doesn't have. You're an MSP or a broader IT firm with a strong client relationship. Your client has Linux servers, containers, or hosting infrastructure that needs someone who really knows the stack. That's us.

Under this arrangement, CP engineers work as part of your delivery team on Linux-specific work. You define scope with your client. You handle the client relationship. We do the engineering. Depending on how you want to present it, we can be visible, invisible, or somewhere in between. That's a decision you make per engagement.

We specialize in Linux. It's what we do all day, every day. When your clients need Linux expertise, you can either hire senior Linux engineers directly, which is expensive and hard to retain, or bring us in behind you. We stay in our lane. We don't market to your clients. We don't try to expand scope beyond what you agree. Your relationship stays yours.

White label Linux engineering
Who it's for

Who it's for

01
You're an MSP with strong generalist IT skills but no deep Linux specialist on staff.
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Your clients run Linux servers, containers, or hosting environments that need senior expertise you can't hire fast enough.
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You want to say yes to Linux projects that you'd otherwise turn away.
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You have Linux work but not enough to justify a full-time hire on your team.
How visibility works

How visibility works

Every white label engagement is different. Some partners want us invisible. Others want us named. Some want a mix. Which mode fits depends on the specific engagement, what your client expects, and how you want to position the work.

Mode 01

Invisible

Your brand only

You're the only brand your client sees. Communication routes through your systems. Deliverables go out under your name. Our engineers work as part of your team.

Typical fit: smaller-scale engagements, retail-style clients, or when your client has no particular need to know who's behind the work.
Mode 02

Named subcontractor

Disclosed when relevant

CP is disclosed as your Linux specialist partner when it makes sense. Some end clients want to know who's doing the work, especially for compliance or audit trail reasons.

Typical fit: enterprise clients, regulated industries, or engagements with contractual transparency requirements.
Mode 03

Co-branded

Both brands visible

Both brands present with the end client. Explicit partnership. Useful when you want to signal specialization, or when your client specifically asked for deep Linux expertise as part of the value.

Typical fit: technical clients, projects that explicitly require Linux specialists, or when specialization is a selling point.
The mode isn't locked in at the partnership level. You can operate one way with one client and differently with another, and shift approach as an engagement evolves. Whatever fits the engagement.
What we can white-label

What we can white-label

The short answer: whatever your clients need on Linux. The specific services partners most often resell are the ones we already deliver directly to end clients.

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Not limited to these. Migrations, security hardening, compliance work, one-off projects: if your client needs Linux work we haven't listed here, we probably do it. Ask.
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Wondering about references?

White label engagements are, by design, confidential. That means we don't publish case studies for this line of work. If you want to talk to other partners as part of your due diligence, we can arrange references privately during the conversation.

Other engagements

Explore our other engagements.

There are a few different ways to work with us. Here are the other engagements you can explore.

Start the conversation

Interested in a partnership?

A 30-minute call is enough to figure out if this is a fit. We'll talk through the kinds of Linux work your clients need, what services we could bring to your team, and how visibility would work for your book of business.