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Cloud Infrastructure for Authorization
We build the tools companies need to provide performant and scalable authorization for their applications. We’re founded by 3 successful entrepreneurs with expertise in enterprise software, most recently as leaders at Red Hat. Jake and Joey met on the APIs team at Google in 2010. They went on to found Quay, where Jimmy joined as their first hire. Over the past decade, they’ve changed the landscape for building and deploying software.
AuthZed provides an authorization platform designed for AI and modern applications, offering centralized, scalable permission management to remove bottlenecks. It markets itself as an enterprise-grade solution for unified access control across systems, with options for cloud, self-hosted, and dedicated deployments.
AuthZed provides a unified authorization system that defines permissions once and enforces them across all systems. It supports team-based access control, customer-managed permissions, sharing links, and permission-aware lists, with a flexible configuration language to adapt to complex business models. The platform emphasizes global scale, strong consistency, and the ability to replace legacy authorization codes with a ready-made infrastructure, including options for cloud, dedicated, and self-hosted deployments and an emphasis on AI application integration (e.g., retrieval-augmented generation that respects data boundaries).
Who it’s for: Enterprise teams and organizations needing scalable, centralized access control across ecosystems, including AI platforms and modern applications.
Hiring and growth mentions (Join Us), multiple deployment options (Cloud, Self-Hosted, Dedicated), pricing and enterprise-focused messaging indicate mature product with traction in enterprise contexts.
Jake Moshenko is an engineering leader that has been building infrastructure tools and services for over 15 years for large companies and startups alike. Having previously struggled to keep up with customer permissions demands on products such as CoreOS’s Quay and Tectonic, he was searching for a better way to do application permissions.
Jimmy Zelinskie is a software engineer and product leader with the goal of empowering the world through the democratization of software via open source development. He's currently the CPO and cofounder of authzed where he's focused on bringing hyperscaler best-practices in authorization software to the industry at large.
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