What is Cakewalk

Cakewalk is the Agentic Identity Governance platform for fast-moving companies. We help you control access, reduce security risk and eliminate repetitive work through AI.

🔥 The Problems Teams Face

Modern scale-ups do not just run on SaaS apps and cloud platforms anymore. AI apps and agents are now everywhere. Without a governance layer, IT and Security teams are left exposed:

• Shadow IT and Shadow AI: Employees spin up apps or AI tools without approval, multiplying risk and compliance headaches.

• Onboarding friction: New hires wait days for the right apps because access has to be granted manually.

• Mover complexity: Role changes and team transfers leave users with too much access or too little, often discovered only during audits.

• Offboarding gaps: Departing employees keep lingering access to apps, exposing sensitive data.

• Audit fatigue: Security and compliance teams spend weeks chasing spreadsheets to prove who has access to what.

• Admin overload: IT admins waste hours provisioning, deprovisioning and fielding repetitive requests.

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🧁 How Cakewalk Solves It

Cakewalk is the AI powered control plane for Identity Governance, built around three pillars:

1. Consolidate

Bring all access data, identities and systems into one source of truth.

• App and AI Discovery: Capture all apps, tools and identities (via browser extension, Google Workspace, IdP, etc.) and bring them into your governance plane.

• Unified Directory: merge HR, IdP and app accounts so every person (or system) maps to a single identity.

• Smart Tables & Dashboards: Instantly see who has access to what, across your environment, your data shown how you want it.

✅ Outcome: No more silos. You always know the full access landscape.

2. Automate

Turn access workflows into self-running processes with guardrails.

• JML Automation: “Joiner / Mover / Leaver” flows automatically grant, adjust or revoke access based on role, attribute or lifecycle changes.

• Policies & Approval Workflows: Fully customizable and enforceable approval workflows that ensures consistency and compliance.

• Interoperability through Integrations: Your HRIS, IdP, SaaS tools and Slack all connect to Cakewalk so changes ripple in real time.

• Auto Provisioning by Agent Cake: Enable real-time access for users with Cakewalk's agentic provisioning automation, minimizing repetitive IT tasks.

✅ Outcome: Less manual work, fewer mistakes, faster access changes.

3. Guide

Give every user the visibility and context to make smart access decisions.

• Self-Serve Access in Slack: Employees request access where they already live (Slack) while getting routing, contextual info and transparency.

• Contextual Approvals and Reviews: Detailed insights into the identity, purpose, application and associated AI risks at each decision stage.

• Access Visibility: Employees always see which apps and AI tools they can use, reducing IT tickets.

• Insights and Governance Actions: Highlight excessive access, dormant accounts and risky AI usage for remediation.

✅ Outcome: Decisions are informed, fast and traceable while users aren’t blocked waiting on IT.

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💡 Why you need Cakewalk

• Save time: IT & Security teams can cut up to 80% of manual effort in access management.

• Close security gaps: Orphaned accounts, over-permissioned users and unknown AI use is discovered and addressed automatically.

• Stay audit-ready: Generate clean reports showing who has access to what, how it was approved and when it was last reviewed.

• Enable scale: Onboard faster, manage complex org structures with confidence.

• Empower teams: Give employees autonomy to request tools they need while ensuring managers and app owners remain in control.