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    Workflow Automation & AI

    If the SKU Does Not Exist, We Build It.

    How we build custom automation for companies between 50 and 500 employees when the vendor answer is "upgrade your licence" and the internal answer is "we do it by hand."

    Case study: Automation Engineering Across the Stack

    At a Glance

    Company Sizes
    50-500 employees
    Industries
    Technology, professional services
    Stack
    Okta, Terraform, n8n, custom tooling
    Delivery Model
    Engineering-led, embedded
    Engagement Type
    Build and deploy, ongoing iteration
    Services
    Workflow Automation, Identity Engineering, Infrastructure as Code

    The Problem

    Companies between 50 and 500 employees hit the same wall. The governance feature they need is locked behind an enterprise SKU they cannot justify. Onboarding a contractor takes 45 minutes of hand-built accounts across half a dozen platforms. App requests go through email chains because the service desk does not have approval workflows. When the company restructures, access policies are hardcoded and nobody wants to touch them.

    The vendor answer is always the same: upgrade your licence. The internal answer is always the same: we do it by hand because we have no other option.

    What We Actually Build

    Four categories of work, delivered across multiple client environments.

    Governance tooling when the SKU does not exist. One client needed a governance feature that sat behind an enterprise tier they were not on. We built it. The control works, the audit trail exists, and the client did not have to upgrade a single licence.

    Onboarding automation triggered from a single event. HR marks someone as starting and the rest follows: accounts created, group memberships assigned, apps provisioned. What used to take 45 minutes of manual work runs in under five.

    Service desk workflows for requests and approvals. App access requests, hardware requests, and permission changes routed through built workflows instead of email chains. Approvals tracked, access granted, audit trail logged.

    Okta org remapping software. Custom tooling that reads an org chart change, maps it to access policy, generates the policy as Terraform, and deploys it. Zero downtime. This is used across our existing IAM clients to handle restructures that previously took weeks.

    How the Org Remapping Works

    When a company restructures, access policies need to change. Reporting lines shift, teams merge or split, and the permissions model that made sense last quarter no longer reflects who needs access to what. In most environments this is a manual exercise that takes weeks of planning, testing, and cautious rollout.

    Our tooling takes the updated org chart and maps it against the existing access policy structure in Okta. It identifies what needs to change, generates the updated policy as Terraform code, and queues it for review. Once approved, it deploys through the standard infrastructure pipeline with zero downtime.

    On a well-aligned Okta environment, standard delivery is roughly a week. That includes mapping, code generation, review, and deployment. We use this across existing IAM clients to handle restructures in hours of engineering time rather than weeks of project management.

    The Result

    Contractor onboarding dropped from 45 minutes to under five. Governance controls were delivered without SKU upgrades or additional licensing. Service desk requests that used to sit in inboxes now run through tracked workflows with approval chains. Org restructures that took weeks of planning and manual policy changes are handled through code generation and automated deployment.

    Every piece of automation runs on the client's existing licensing. No additional platform costs.

    “We were being quoted five figures for an enterprise SKU to get a governance feature. They built it in a week and it works better than what the vendor was offering.”
    — CFO, 100-person technology company (name withheld by request)

    By the Numbers

    45 min to < 5 minOnboarding Time
    £0Additional Licensing Cost
    ~1 weekOrg Remapping Delivery
    0Downtime During Restructures

    This Might Sound Familiar

    If your team is spending hours on manual processes that should have been automated years ago, or your vendor is quoting you an enterprise upgrade for a feature you could build, the pattern is the same. We build the automation that sits between what you have and what you actually need.

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    The support layer that runs alongside this automation work is documented separately.

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