
Soul Machines: Humanizing AI interactions with life-like avatars
minutes or under for employee onboarding compared to more than one day previously
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
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.
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.
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.
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