He only wants the blue

Somewhere in eastern Australia, a satin bowerbird is working his way across the forest floor, turning down almost everything on it. Leaves, seeds, the ordinary beige of the bush. Not interesting.

He is looking for blue. Blue feathers, blue berries, blue flowers, and these days blue plastic.

It looks like fussiness. It is a filter. Out of everything available to him, he carries home only the pieces worth having

   That is the blue dot in our logo.

Which is roughly how we work

A permission on its own is a bottle cap. It tells you something, but not much.

Gathid gathers identities and the access they hold from the systems you connect, and models how all of it relates: people, accounts, roles, permissions. Authority, meaning who can actually do what, rarely sits in any one system's list. It shows up in the relationships between them.

Gather the right pieces. Arrange them so the shape means something.

Then the part most people have backwards. One blue bottle cap tells you nothing at all. Standing in front of the finished bower, you can see exactly why that one sits where it does, and what it would mean if it moved. It is the whole that makes the fine detail readable, never the other way around.

That is the job, and a bird in Queensland has been doing it longer than we have.