Soul Machines: Humanizing AI interactions with life-like avatars

40

minutes or under for employee onboarding compared to more than one day previously

3x

return on Okta Workflow automation cost through gains achieved by freedom from mundane tasks

  • Driving AI's new user interface with global team of innovators
  • An identity platform that's about empowerment, not box ticking
  • Enabling secure global collaboration with confidential IP assets
  • Freeing up creative team from mundane tasks to drive AI innovation
  • Unlimited potential for innovation with versatile identity management
Driving AI's new user interface with global team of innovators

Soul Machines is an AI startup putting a friendly face on human-machine interactions. As it planned to take its technology to market, it needed to expand its circle of Auckland engineers and researchers into a global network of business strategists, digital artists, marketers, salespeople, scientists and more. That required a world-class identity management solution to protect its groundbreaking intellectual property while enabling frictionless creative global collaboration.

An identity platform that's about empowerment, not box ticking

In seeking a workforce identity solution, Soul Machines wanted more than a platform that "ticked the security and compliance boxes." It sought holistic workforce identity rooted in empowering people through free-flowing yet secure inspiration exchange. After reviewing possible solutions, Soul Machines found that Okta Identity Cloud shared this vision of identity empowerment.

Enabling secure global collaboration with confidential IP assets

From a 60-person outfit of mainly R&D engineers, Soul Machines deployed Okta workforce identity solutions to securely and rapidly onboard a global staff spanning North America and Europe. A combination of HR as a source and Okta Workflows enabled Soul Machines to overcome the twin challenges of seamless access controls and confidential IP asset sharing in close global collaboration.

Freeing up creative team from mundane tasks to drive AI innovation

From requiring a day or more to onboard a staffer, it now takes less than 40 minutes to set up a worker with all permissions; deprovisioning is even simpler, with access denied in a few clicks. The most profound enterprise success has been a cycle of snowballing advantages that empower creative leaders to drive innovation, instead of getting bogged down by mu