FAQ

Public-safe answers to the questions that come up most. Reuse verbatim.

What is Identity Atlas?

Universal authorization intelligence: it syncs permission data from any identity system into one PostgreSQL model with full audit history, then surfaces it through a role-mining UI and LLM-assisted identity risk scoring. Open source, self-hosted.

Is it Microsoft-only?

No. Entra ID is the deepest, native integration, but any system that can export a CSV — Omada, SailPoint, SAP/Pathlock, SharePoint, Azure RBAC, DevOps, or a homegrown app — lands in the same unified model. There's also an Ingest API for building custom crawlers in any language.

Does my identity data go to an LLM or any external service?

No. Identity Atlas is self-hosted and your identity data stays in your environment. The risk-scoring LLM only ever sees public organizational context (e.g. industry information from your public domain) to tune the scoring — never your users, groups, or assignments.

Which LLM providers are supported?

Anthropic Claude, OpenAI, and Azure OpenAI. Keys are stored encrypted (AES-256-GCM) with a master key you control.

How do I try it?

Run the Docker stack (docker compose -f docker-compose.prod.yml up -d), open http://localhost:3001, and click Load Demo Data — no tenant needed. Or use the one-click Deploy to Azure button to put it in your own subscription. There's also a portable Windows launcher for locked-down laptops (no install, no admin).

What does it cost?

The software is open source under the MIT license — free. If you host it in Azure, you pay only for the Azure resources; the deploy template starts around €45/month for a proof-of-concept and scales from there.

Is it production-ready?

It runs as a Docker stack with PostgreSQL 16, authenticated from the first Azure deploy, with encrypted secrets and a documented schema. Some risk-scoring layers (structural hygiene, cross-entity propagation) are still being completed — see History for exactly what ships today versus what's planned.

Who builds it?

Fortigi, a Dutch identity & access management consultancy. Identity Atlas started as an internal tool used on real engagements and grew into a product. See About and History.

Where's the source / how do I contribute?

github.com/Fortigi/IdentityAtlas — issues and pull requests welcome.