Perspectives

Field notes and frameworks from the edge of identity, what we are learning solving Frontier Identity challenges.

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The Agent Identity Delegation Chain: Why Agents Should Never Get Service Accounts

Giving an AI agent a service account severs the link between the human who delegated authority and the action taken with it. The standards to keep that link intact already exist.

May 26, 2026 · 4 min read

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RBAC, ReBAC, or PBAC: How to Choose an Authorization Model

Authorization models fail when they are chosen by familiarity instead of by the access questions they must answer. Here is the decision framework we use, and where each model earns its place.

April 28, 2026 · 4 min read

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Delivery

The Fixed-Fee Argument: Why We Absorb the Delivery Risk

Time-and-materials billing charges the client for the firm's own uncertainty. Agent-orchestrated delivery removes enough variance that a services firm can price the outcome instead.

March 24, 2026 · 4 min read

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Delivery

Your IdP Configuration Is Data. Treat It Like Data.

Identity migrations are priced as if every application is a custom project. When tenant configuration becomes portable data, the economics change. We moved 40 applications for Temporal in one day.

February 17, 2026 · 4 min read

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We Have Been Here Before: Agentic AI and the Pre-SAML Identity Crisis

In 2000, enterprises had no standard for federated identity. Every vendor had a proprietary answer. The organizations that got ahead of SAML shaped their identity landscape for the next twenty years. The same window is open right now.

January 20, 2026 · 7 min read

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Delivery

Headless Orchestration: The Case for Treating Identity Configuration as Data

Most IAM programs are bottlenecked by the gap between what a senior architect decides and what a console operator can execute. Headless orchestration closes that gap.

December 10, 2025 · 6 min read

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