What is a "universal API for disconnected apps"?

A universal API for disconnected apps is an abstraction layer that makes HTML-only or legacy apps behave like modern API-integrated applications. Stitchflow creates this layer by converting UI actions (clicks, forms, state changes) into structured, SCIM-like JSON responses - so your IdP can automate provisioning even when the app itself has no API.

How does Stitchflow turn a browser-only app into an API?

Stitchflow spins up an isolated headless browser, executes deterministic UI flows, validates success states, and returns structured JSON. To your IdP, it looks like a normal SCIM endpoint. This is exactly how Stitchflow functions as a universal API for disconnected apps, bridging the gap between old UI-based tools and modern identity systems.

How is Stitchflow different from RPA tools when automating disconnected apps?

Traditional RPA "clicks blindly." Stitchflow doesn't. Our universal API for disconnected apps validates UI outcomes, handles session logic, encrypts artifacts, and provides consistent, machine-readable outputs. Add 24/7 human-in-the-loop resilience , and Stitchflow delivers API-level reliability - not brittle screen-scraping.

What types of apps can Stitchflow connect as a universal API?

Stitchflow works with any web-based application - legacy ERPs that haven't been updated since 2010, internal admin dashboards, niche vertical tools, and SCIM Tax offenders like Figma and Slack that lock provisioning behind enterprise pricing. If it has a browser admin panel, we can automate it.

Is using a universal API for disconnected apps secure?

Yes. Stitchflow runs automation inside isolated, ephemeral containers with AES-256 encryption, strict VPC boundaries, and no credential exposure. Every action is logged and auditable. This provides SCIM-like security and compliance for apps that were never built for identity governance.

We Built the Universal API for Apps That Refuse to Build One

TL;DR

30% of your apps only speak HTML. We built the translator.

Legacy tools, internal dashboards, SCIM Tax offenders - they don't have APIs. They have web UIs. To an IT architect, that's noise: unstructured, volatile, impossible to automate.

Stitchflow makes them behave like SCIM endpoints:

To your IdP: a standard integration that sends signals and gets structured responses
Under the hood: isolated containers, encrypted sessions, deterministic validation

We turn the "dumb" application into a "smart" integration.

The problem: Apps that only speak HTML

In a perfect world, every application in your stack would have a robust REST API and a native SCIM endpoint.

Your Identity Provider (Okta or Entra) would talk to your apps in a clean, standardized language. Provisioning would be a simple CREATE request. Deprovisioning would be a DELETE request.

But we don't live in a perfect world. We analyzed 721 SaaS apps: 57% have no SCIM at all, 42% lock it behind enterprise pricing. Only 9 apps include SCIM on their base tier. Legacy tools, internal dashboards, and "SCIM Tax" offenders - they all speak one language: HTML.

To an IT Architect, HTML is noise. It is unstructured, volatile, and impossible to automate reliably.

So, we built a translation engine.

Stitchflow acting as a universal adapter connecting disconnected apps to Okta — How Stitchflow turns HTML-only apps into SCIM-like endpoints

Stitchflow is not just a "bot" that clicks buttons. It is an infrastructure layer that forces a chaotic User Interface to behave exactly like a structured API - essentially a universal API for disconnected apps, giving you SCIM-like behavior even when the app itself refuses to build SCIM.

The "Synthetic" API

The core innovation of Stitchflow isn't just that we automate the browser. It's that we abstract the browser away from you entirely.

To your IdP or your workflow engine (Workato, BetterCloud, Okta Workflows), Stitchflow looks exactly like a standard integration.

Input: You send us a standard SCIM signal (e.g., "Deactivate User X").
Process: We spin up an isolated, headless browser in our private GCP cloud to execute the logic.
Output: We return a structured JSON payload confirming the action, just like a REST API response.

We turn the "dumb" application into a "smart" integration.

Under the hood: Controlled Isolation

We didn't hack this together on a laptop. We architected it for scale and isolation.

When you trigger an action, we don't just run a script. We spin up a dedicated, ephemeral container in Google Cloud Run.

The Clean Room: That browser instance exists only for your specific task. It lives inside our private VPC. It has no visibility into other customers or other runs.
The Session Logic: We manage the messy parts of the web - cookies, session tokens, MFA states - so you don't have to. We encrypt these session artifacts using AES-256 and store them in GCP Secret Manager, allowing us to reuse sessions for speed without compromising security.
The VPN Boundary: All execution happens behind a strict VPN boundary. The public internet never touches your automation logic directly.

Structured outputs over screen scraping

The dirty secret of traditional RPA is that it doesn't know what it did. It clicks a button and hopes for the best.

Stitchflow is deterministic. We don't just click; we validate.

When we run a deprovisioning flow, our engine scrapes the result, validates the success state (e.g., "User Deleted" toast message), and converts that event into a standardized machine-readable object.

This is the game-changer for IT engineering.

It means you can plug a legacy ERP system that was built in 2010 directly into a modern IdP like Okta or Entra.

Stitchflow acts as the adapter. We take the messy HTML of the legacy app and present it to Okta as a clean, compliant identity object.

Make the disconnected, connected

You shouldn't have to build custom scripts for every tool that lacks an API. That is technical debt that you will be paying interest on forever.

We've measured what manual provisioning actually costs. Based on real data from 27 organizations: ~$12,000 per app per year in IT labor, unused licenses, and compliance gaps.

We built the infrastructure to handle the chaos so you can maintain a clean architecture.

You treat Stitchflow like an API. We handle the browser tabs.

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