Automation - Stop managing identity by hand
Joiner automation is table stakes — most companies have some version of it. What they do not have is mover and leaver automation: the role change that should revoke access to the finance dashboard, the contractor termination that nobody told IT about. That is where the real exposure lives. Fixed-scope engagements, $15,000 to $40,000.
If your provisioning process involves tickets, manual account creation, and hoping someone remembered to revoke access on the way out, you do not have a system. You have a checklist that depends on people not forgetting. We build the automation so the system handles it whether or not someone remembers to file a ticket.
When someone joins, IT gets a ticket and manually creates accounts in Okta, Slack, GitHub, Jira, the VPN, and whatever else the team uses. When someone leaves, IT gets another ticket — three days late, if one gets filed at all. Role changes are the real gap. Someone moves from engineering to sales and keeps their AWS console access because no process exists to catch it.
The cost of waiting
Identity toil scales worse than headcount. At 50 people, manual provisioning is annoying. At 200, it is a full-time job for someone who should be doing other work. At 500, tickets get dropped, offboarding steps get skipped, and orphaned accounts accumulate until an auditor or an attacker finds them first.
The work
Joiner / Mover / Leaver Automation
The automation that creates accounts, assigns entitlements, and removes access when someone joins, changes roles, or leaves. Covers SCIM provisioning for connected applications, group and role assignment logic, deprovisioning workflows with appropriate grace periods, and audit logging for every change.
HRIS-to-IDP Connectors
Build the connector between your HR system and your identity provider so that identity lifecycle is driven by HR events: hires, role changes, terminations. We work with Workday, BambooHR, Rippling, and similar systems pushing to Okta, Entra ID, or equivalent. Includes attribute mapping, event-driven lifecycle triggers, and validation tooling for handling edge cases like contractors, rehires, and leave of absence.
Self-Service Identity Operations
Tooling that lets your team handle common identity tasks without filing tickets: group membership requests, application access requests, temporary elevated access. Integrated with Slack, web UI, ServiceNow, or Jira Service Management. Automatic provisioning on approval, automatic expiration for time-bound access, and a full audit trail.
Bulk Operations Tooling
When you need to update attributes, migrate groups, or reassign applications across thousands of records, you do not want to do it by hand and you really do not want to do it with a script someone wrote at 11pm. We build tooling with dry-run validation so you can see exactly what will change before it changes, plus rollback procedures for when reality diverges from the plan.
Deliverables
- Lifecycle automation (joiner, mover, leaver flows)
- SCIM provisioning configuration for connected applications
- Group and role assignment logic
- Deprovisioning workflows with appropriate grace periods
- Audit logging and notification integration
- Runbook for exception handling
- HRIS-to-IDP integration (Workday, BambooHR, Rippling, or similar to Okta, Entra ID, or similar)
- Attribute mapping (department, title, manager, location to groups and roles)
- Event-driven lifecycle triggers (hire, transfer, termination)
- Validation and reconciliation tooling
- Runbook for handling edge cases (contractors, rehires, leave of absence)
- Self-service request portal or workflow
- Approval routing logic and automatic provisioning on approval
- Automatic expiration for time-bound access
- Audit trail for all self-service actions
Typical engagement
- Shape
- Fixed scope, per-workflow or bundled
- Duration
- 2–6 weeks
- Price
- $15K–$40K
What shipped
A company processing roughly 470 user changes per year was doing all of it manually — tickets for new hires, tickets for departures, nothing for role changes. We built an automated pipeline triggered by HR events that handles all three. Deprovisioning now runs same-day when the termination hits HR. The team that used to spend 15 hours a week on identity tickets does not anymore.
Common questions
How much does provisioning automation cost?
$15,000 to $40,000 scoped per workflow or bundle. Depends on application count, role logic complexity, and HR system.
What does joiner/mover/leaver automation cover?
Account creation and entitlement assignment at join, access adjustments at role change, deprovisioning with grace periods at departure. SCIM provisioning, audit logging, exception handling runbook.
What happens when someone leaves?
Termination events from HR trigger deprovisioning automatically same day. Access revoked across connected applications. Every action generates an auditable record.