SCIM isn't technically difficult. It's been an open standard since 2011. Vendors withhold it because it's profitable.

"We built an entire internal tool just to track who has Figma access. That's how broken their identity story is." — Platform Engineer, Reddit This isn't one person. This is the pattern.

Baseten’s day 0 bet was that inference was the technology that would enable the best user experiences AI could deliver–fast, smart, reliable, secure. And that those experiences would rely not only on a handful of giant general intelligence models, but millions of specialized

"Ransom economics" - holding your security posture hostage until you pay. That's not a bug in the SaaS ecosystem. It's the business model.

Vendors land cheap, expand usage across the company, lock in adoption. Then monetize by gating security behind enterprise pricing. The SCIM Tax is phase three.

Atlassian Jira requires a separate Guard subscription on top of your license. 33% cost increase just for provisioning. That's not a feature. That's a tax.

Vendors aren't ignoring the provisioning problem. They're monetizing it.

Salesforce costs more to manage manually ($26K/year) than many apps cost to license. The management cost exceeds the software cost.

We'll build browser automation ourselves. That's how IT teams waste 40+ engineering days.Then spend forever maintaining it when UIs change. Some problems aren't worth solving internally.

Freshservice consumes 233 IT hours per year for manual provisioning. That's nearly 6 weeks of full-time work. For one app.

Browser automation breaks. UIs change. CAPTCHAs appear. When our automation hits something unexpected, it halts immediately. Within 15 minutes, an engineer is fixing it. That's how we guarantee 99.5% uptime on something inherently brittle.

You're not architecting systems. You're a human API, bridging the gap between HR and vendors who refuse to build proper integrations.

Stitchflow uses deterministic automation. Not AI. "This looks like a delete button" is not acceptable for removing user accounts. We use pre-validated logic. If something unexpected happens, we halt and a human fixes it.

Manual provisioning isn't free. It's $12K per app per year in hidden costs. You're already paying for automation. You're just not getting it.

Your IdP dashboard shows everything connected. Reality: 30% of your apps where your team logs in manually, hopes they remember everyone who left, and prays the auditors don't ask too many questions.