What is the Stitchflow Manifesto?

The Stitchflow Manifesto is a declaration that identity automation should be a basic right, not an enterprise-tier upsell. It calls out the SCIM Tax and the broken economics that force IT teams into manual provisioning and dangerous offboarding gaps.

Why does the Stitchflow Manifesto argue that automation shouldn't be an upsell?

Because provisioning and deprovisioning are core security functions. The Stitchflow Manifesto highlights how vendors intentionally lock SCIM behind expensive enterprise plans, forcing IT teams to choose between security and budget - a fundamentally unfair trade-off.

How does Stitchflow solve the problems outlined in the Stitchflow Manifesto?

Stitchflow addresses both failures. For the 42% of apps holding SCIM hostage behind enterprise pricing, we bypass the ransom - delivering the same provisioning automation without the tier upgrade. For the 57% of apps that never built SCIM at all, we build the automation that vendors won't. Either way, you get provisioning that works with your IdP at less than $5K/app/year.

Who is the Stitchflow Manifesto written for?

The Stitchflow Manifesto is for IT teams who live in the real world: managing 20 browser tabs, outdated spreadsheets, disconnected apps, and manual deprovisioning. It validates their reality and presents a practical path to escape SCIM Tax-driven workflows.

What's the difference between the SCIM Tax and the SCIM Gap?

The SCIM Tax (42% of apps) refers to vendors who built SCIM but deliberately paywall it behind enterprise pricing - this is ransom economics. The SCIM Gap (57% of apps) refers to vendors who never built SCIM at all - there's no ransom because there's nothing to hold hostage. Both leave you stuck with manual work, but the SCIM Tax is a deliberate commercial choice while the SCIM Gap is neglect.

The Stitchflow Manifesto: Automation is a Right, Not an Upsell

TL;DR

Security is a right, not an upsell.

98.8% of SaaS apps block automated provisioning from your IdP - either through enterprise paywalls (42%) or by never building it at all (57%). That's not an edge case. That's your whole stack.

So we built Stitchflow: resilient browser automation, backed by 24/7 human in the loop. We build the integration. We maintain it. <$5K/app/year.

Let's stop pretending

Your IT environment is not the clean, perfect diagram sold to your SOC 2 Auditor. It's a sprawling, messy, imperfect reality. And that is not your failure. It's the industry's failure to see you.

Comparison showing the clean vendor diagram versus the messy reality IT teams actually face — What vendors sell you vs. what your Monday actually looks like

It's the 20 browser tabs open 24/7.
It's the master CSV of users you know is out of date.
It's the 30% of your stack that your Identity Provider ignores.

You live in these identity gaps. We know, because we built products and the Stitchflow Manifesto for this exact reality.

The problem: two failures, one result

This mess wasn't an accident. It's two different failures that leave you in the same place.

The SCIM Tax (42% of apps): These vendors built SCIM. They have it. And they deliberately lock it behind enterprise pricing. They invented the SCIM Tax: the extra, punitive price you're forced to pay just to do your job. They force you to buy ten features you don't need to get the one you must have. They force you to choose: security or budget. This is ransom economics - holding your security posture hostage until you pay.

The SCIM Gap (57% of apps): These vendors never built SCIM at all. Legacy tools, niche apps, internal dashboards - they weren't designed for the modern identity stack. There's no ransom here because there's nothing to ransom. Just a gap that leaves you stuck with manual provisioning.

We analyzed 721 SaaS apps. The results: 57% have no SCIM at any price. Another 42% lock it behind enterprise pricing. Only 9 apps offer SCIM without a tier upgrade. That's 98.8% of your stack where provisioning is blocked - whether by greed or by neglect.

Both failures land in the same place: your browser tabs, your spreadsheets, your 2 AM offboarding scrambles.

Our beliefs: what the Stitchflow Manifesto stands for

We don't sell a perfect world. We fix the one you have.

We believe in pragmatism, not perfection. We believe the 30% "gap" isn't an 'edge case.' It's the real job.

We believe automation isn't a luxury, held hostage by enterprise plans. Security is a right, not an upsell.

The solution: build for the world as it is

We build for the day-to-day reality of IT teams.

We turn those twenty browser tabs into Resilient Automation. When Adobe, Figma (demanding a 3.4x markup for SCIM), or Slack gates security behind a massive enterprise plan, we deliver the same SCIM capability through secure, deterministic browser automation - at less than $5,000 per app/year, not $20,000-$100,000 for enterprise upgrades.

We're also the first company to actually measure what manual provisioning costs. Based on real data from 27 organizations: ~$12,000 per app per year in IT labor, unused licenses, and compliance gaps. That's not a guess - it's what we see across our customer base.

But here is our promise: we don't pretend browser automation is easy. It breaks. UIs change. CAPTCHA appears. Sessions expire at 2 AM. Every other solution pretends this doesn't happen.

We built for it.

When something breaks, a human engineer fixes it in 15 minutes, 24/7. Not an AI. Not a chatbot. Our 24/7 on-call engineering team steps into a secure, sandboxed environment to restore the flow, guaranteeing your automation keeps running while you sleep.

We deliver SCIM-level provisioning through resilient browser automation, backed by 24/7 human in the loop. We build the integration. We maintain it. We are the fix-it crew for your SaaS stack.

We don't shame your spreadsheets - we automate them. We don't demand you migrate - we integrate. We embrace the chaos. You only pay when it works.

Stop living in your browser tabs. Stop paying the tax. Automate 100% of your environment.

We are Stitchflow. We automate for IT's imperfect world.

If you're tired of SCIM Tax, manual deprovisioning, and offboarding gaps, you're not alone. Stitchflow automates every app, even the ones without APIs or SCIM.

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