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I’m the founder of WorkOS (https:\u002F\u002Fworkos.com) We provide a developer API for making your app enterprise-ready. You can quickly add features including SSO\u002FSAML, Director…",{"value":58,"source":52,"evidence":59},"Developers building apps sold to enterprises",[60,61],{"id":55,"by":11,"text":56},{"id":62,"by":11,"text":63},"22608114","Naming is one of those hard problems. :P We're primarily targeted at developers but I found there's a lot of other people who care about enterprise features. For example, WorkOS…",{"value":65,"source":52,"evidence":66},"SSO is free; custom pricing for large enterprise deployments",[67,70],{"id":68,"by":11,"text":69},"22608167","Similar and different in some ways. Our SSO is free, which makes it a lot more accessible to startups and companies just beginning to go up-market. We also provide a more generic…",{"id":71,"by":11,"text":72},"22630265","Yep we can help with those needs too and have custom pricing for large enterprise deployments. 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Would love to know as well!",{"id":101,"by":102,"text":103},"22616184","Wolfmother","Realy nice and clean website, I love the simplicity. It's a small thing but I would avoid black CTA in the project. Using colors could increase interaction with design ;) Maybe…",{"value":105,"source":94,"evidence":106},"Solves a real pain point for startups selling to enterprises",[107,111],{"id":108,"by":109,"text":110},"22613296","Reebz","This is extremely impressive. The value prop, the product, all of it. It resonates. I was at a startup 5 or so years ago, and now am at a very large company. The world of pain…",{"id":112,"by":113,"text":114},"22616553","dfsegoat","> \"You can quickly add features including SSO\u002FSAML, Director Sync (SCIM), Audit Logs, and more.\" This is great. Congrats. I work in a regulated industry (Life sciences\u002Fpharma)…",[116,122],{"value":117,"source":52,"evidence":118},"Not yet SOC-2 certified; certification expected in Q2",[119],{"id":120,"by":11,"text":121},"22608535","We're currently in the middle of our SOC-2 Type 2 observation period and should have that certification in Q2. The company is barely 1 year old and the process of certification…",{"value":123,"source":94,"evidence":124},"RBAC not yet released",[125],{"id":126,"by":127,"text":128},"22609834","hashamali","It looks like RBAC isn't out yet, any timeline on that? 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We're presently deployed as a \"per-customer\" model…",[148,155],{"value":149,"source":94,"evidence":150},"How does it compare to Auth0?",[151],{"id":152,"by":153,"text":154},"22608024","leetrout","How does this compare \u002F contrast to Auth0?",{"value":156,"source":94,"evidence":157},"How does audit log differ from analytics tools like Mixpanel?",[158],{"id":159,"by":160,"text":161},"22615297","edelans","Looks nice indeed @grinich ! Excuse the naive question but : what's the difference between workOS and software such as amplitude or mixpanel for audit trail logs ? From what I…",[163,170,177],{"value":164,"source":94,"evidence":165},"Auth0",[166,167],{"id":152,"by":153,"text":154},{"id":168,"by":135,"text":169},"22610449","You can do this with the Auth0 APIs as well, no? By hitting the `\u002Fauthorize` endpoint for saml-typed Auth0 connections? In that case Auth0 then acts as a SAML-to-OpenID Connect…",{"value":171,"source":94,"evidence":172},"Replicated",[173],{"id":174,"by":175,"text":176},"22612940","tixocloud","Congrats on the launch, Michael. Been experiencing the same - after conducting demos of our application, we've been told that we aren't enterprise-ready and so we've gone away to…",{"value":178,"source":94,"evidence":179},"Firebase Authentication",[180],{"id":181,"by":182,"text":183},"22614802","nujabe","What you're looking for is Firebase Authentication & customs tokens to link with your current auth system.",{"comments":185,"answered":186,"key":187},18,11,[188,189,190],{"id":55,"text":56},{"id":62,"text":63},{"id":191,"text":192},"22608124","This is a great place to start. 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