Every Operator Exercises Authority.
Most Systems Only Govern Workflows.
Helpdesk. Partner Admin. Franchise Manager. AI Agent. All acting with delegated authority. Most platforms cannot define that authority at runtime.
IdentityRM computes the answer at the moment of action — persona, scope, tools, and proof for every operator, human or AI.
Day 1. Not 18 months.
Patented Product • Runtime Authority • 70+ Governed MCP Tools • Day 1 Ready • Works With Your IdP • Works With Your LLM
Am I Authorized to Do This? Every Operator Asks. Nothing Answers.
In most stacks, authority lives in policy prose, scattered ACLs, and tribal knowledge. It is not a queryable fact.
An operator who cannot ask will act anyway. Your audit logs won't show an error — they'll show an administrator acting on a guess.
IdentityRM computes the answer at the moment of asking — evidence attached.
Computed from the live authority model — evidence factors attached.
Outside this operator's authority — grant_role does not even appear in their tool surface. Asking still gets an honest, computed answer.
The contract behind every answer
Before the act: a computed answer, evidence attached. Eligibility to attempt — never a bearer credential.
At execution: the governed operation re-checks everything from live state. The ask reserves nothing.
After: a decision record — granted or denied, which factors, whose delegated authority. Denials leave receipts too.
The Question That Replaces the Portal
A manager needs a role granted at the Seattle office — starting with whether they may grant it at all. One path takes a portal, a ticket, and a specialist. The other starts with a question.
The Portal Way
The portal is the tip of the iceberg. The operator also needs:
3-5 days · IAM specialist required ($117K/yr avg) · Your own authority: undocumented · "Am I authorized?": nobody knows
The MCP Way
"Am I authorized to grant roles at Seattle? If so, give Maya Chen the Support Lead role."
is_authorized
→
Authorized — grant_role at Seattle Office · computed from your position
resolve_user
→
Maya Chen — Seattle Office · unique match in scope
grant_role
→
Support Lead granted to Maya Chen at Seattle Office
log_decision
→
decision trace #DT-5211 recorded — catalogued factors
You are authorized — computed from your position in the delegation model, not a policy document. Support Lead granted to Maya Chen at Seattle Office. Decision trace #DT-5211. The check and the act share one authority model.
Zero app training required — the operator asks in plain language, the architecture computes the authority.
4 seconds · Any operator, human or AI · The question and the action governed by the same model
Every Delegation Gap Spawns a Custom Solution. AI Agents Expose the One You Never Built.
Partner Access Dashboard
2020Works for 2 of 5 partner types
Regional Admin Console
2019Only Dave knew it. Dave left.
Database Permissions UI
2021Still there. Still temporary.
ERP Role Manager
20223 contractors, zero documentation
AI Agent (Attempt 1)
2025No delegation model — full admin. Security killed it in 48 hours.
AI Agent (Attempt 2)
2025Locked down after the audit. Same ticket queue, plus an incident report.
The portals were workarounds. The AI agent is the escalation. Without a delegation model, agents default to god access or nothing. The fix? Scope each one by hand — per agent, per system. The portals, all over again.
4 portals took a decade to accumulate. AI agents arrive at 82:1 — and hit the same binary: everything or nothing.
IdentityRM is the delegation model. One agent, multiple scopes — governed per action, with or without a human in the loop. Not a portal per system. Not a service account per scope.
Custom Admin Portals vs. One Delegation Product
Twenty years of IAM budgets promised business self-service. IdentityRM is the product that finally delivers it.
We had six custom admin portals and three IAM specialists holding it together. IdentityRM replaced all of it — our helpdesk, partner admins, and AI agents all use the same delegation model now. Same governance, zero custom code.
The Specialists Are Leaving. The Agents Are Arriving.
non-human identities per human in the average enterprise
82 machine identities for every employee.
Most have no individual governance.
average IAM specialist salary — rising 8-12% annually
1-2 years to train. Skills do not transfer across platforms.
245K tech jobs cut in 2024. The specialist pool is shrinking.
is becoming the standard for AI tools
Anthropic's Model Context Protocol is how
AI agents will interact with enterprise systems.
Two things happening at once: the specialists who held delegation together are leaving, and AI agents are arriving at 82:1 on the same infrastructure. The old model — throw specialists at complexity — is dead.
Turnkey. Not a Toolkit.
Everything you need for Authority Governance — humans, AI agents, runtime-scoped tools, permission checks, and proof — ships on Day 1. No custom development. No 18-month implementation. No professional services.
70+ MCP Tools
Runtime-scoped tools operators call directly
Not a static catalog — production code with persona context, tool guidance, permission preflight, and proof.
10+ Authority Patterns
Start from proven models or design your own
OOB patterns cover MSPs, SaaS, franchises, contractors, partners, vendors, and more. Guided design turns your business shape into a custom authority model.
Natural Language Interface
Prompts, not tickets
Any operator exercises delegated authority through conversation. No certifications needed.
Patented Architecture
Granted patent protects the moat
US 12,549,558 — hierarchical scope, invisible boundaries, delegation chains. Additional claims pending.
Works With Your IdP — and Your LLM
Okta, Entra, Auth0, Ping · Claude, GPT, Gemini, your MCP client
OIDC to your identity stack in 15 minutes, additive. And the engine speaks MCP, so any MCP-capable model works — our reference client runs directly on the Anthropic SDK with Sonnet and Haiku. The MCP layer carries the intelligence; you do not need the priciest model.
Self-Improving Governance
Gets smarter from corrections
Every human correction becomes training data. The only IAM system that learns from usage.
This is a product, not a project. The delegated administration tool your enterprise has been building and rebuilding for twenty years — it ships.
See the full Day 1 experience →They Ship Infrastructure. We Ship Delegation.
- You code the MCP tools from scratch.
- You burn tokens like firewood.
- You recreate RBAC hell — same mistakes, new stack.
- You discover the edge cases in production.
- You ship another workaround that burns budget year after year.
Delegation is hard to get right. Why build it when it ships?
IdentityRM delivers runtime-governed, prompt-based delegation, deeply integrated with industry-leading IdPs — so operators manage users, enforce authority, and prove what was allowed from Day 1.
And virtually anything else.
The delegation model is yours — not limited to any IdP. Connect a new system, and the same guardrails, audit trails, and governance extend automatically. If it can be managed, it can be delegated.
The auditor asked: 'Who delegated this authority? What was the scope? Can you prove it was enforced?' With IdentityRM, we answered all three in 30 seconds.
Latest Insights
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An Auth0 API and its scopes, authored in IdentityRM, provisioned into Auth0, governed from here: given positions and owners, asked about, granted with a sealed record, used by Claude Code, Anthropic’s coding agent, from two positions with two answers, and taken back. The catalogue lives in Auth0; the authority over it, and the record of every decision, is mastered in IdentityRM. What that is, and what it is not.
By What Authority?
The second question of delegation legitimacy, proven on camera: was the act in scope. The same engineer with the same credential is refused at New York Office and allowed at Engineering minutes apart, and IdentityRM names the position in its own sentence each time. The assistant switched positions on its own; the events API shows the whole bracket. Plus the two tiers of answer, what is sealed and what is only recorded, and why we speak the standards shape without claiming conformance.
Traceable Is Not Legitimate
Twelve vendors just agreed that AI agent delegation chains must be traceable - Okta, AWS, Google Cloud, CrowdStrike, ServiceNow, Salesforce and more, in one shared reference architecture. Good principle, wrong verb. Every standard the Blueprint names moves signals about what happened or what changed. None of them decides whether the actor who delegated held the authority to do so. A traceable chain of illegitimate grants is not governance - it is a well-documented problem.
How Do You Govern Delegated Administration?
If your business operators and AI agents exercise authority, the governance has to happen at the moment of action. Stop building portals. Stop routing everything through workflows. Govern it like a product, not a project.
Patented • Authority Governance Product • 70+ Governed MCP Tools • Works With Your IdP • Works With Your LLM