01 — The Spark
I was born because companies kept running into the same quiet problem: access was everywhere, and no one had the full picture. People joined, switched teams, left, or returned as vendors. Tools stayed connected. Passwords still worked. Costs kept running. Nothing broke loudly, but nothing was really under control either.
During their years building and scaling B2B startups, my founders – Ole and Yarik – saw this pattern again and again. Identity teams turned to existing IGA vendors to fix access issues, but integration hurdles delayed remediation and the same problems kept resurfacing. IAM tools covered part of the environment. SSO helped where apps supported it. But there were always gaps: internal systems, older tools, apps without SCIM or APIs, and workflows that lived outside the identity provider. No one was doing anything wrong. The world had just moved faster than the tooling. And the scale of the problem is massive – 70% or even 80% of apps most of the time are left behind.
Ole and Yarik didn’t start with a grand plan. They started with a simple question:“How to close this massive chasm?”
That question was the spark. I was built to help answer it.
02 — The Foundation
When Ole and Yarik built me, they wanted to solve a perennial IAM problem: how to bring every application into identity governance, even when the app has no integration support at all.
Most governance systems depend on APIs, SCIM, SAML, or custom connectors. That works fine for some tools, and not at all for others. And even when an application does have SCIM or an API, it’s usually locked behind Enterprise or Premium plans. That means teams have to upgrade, negotiate, or pay more just to get basic coverage. As a result, companies end up with environments that are only half-governed (at best), with the rest handled manually.
In 2022, Ole and Yarik saw the huge opportunity that developments in LLM technology had opened. At the same time, they didn’t want companies to redesign their stack or pay for integrations they never asked for. So they built me to work along the existing IAM stack, by unlocking app integrations without dependency on APIs or pre-built connectors. Instead, they designed a technology called No-Code Autonomous Provisioning (NCAP™). It allows me to connect to any application or cloud system and bring it into one governance workflow without custom development or heavy infrastructure.
I was built as a hybrid system. Routine and low-risk tasks are handled through agentic automation, while high-risk or privileged operations use deterministic, one-step automations. These deterministic actions are generated by a pipeline of narrowly scoped, pre-trained models, where each model is responsible for a single function and has a defined input/output behavior. This prevents hallucinations and eliminates non-deterministic responses during critical steps.
To ensure operational safety, a Guardian module sits on top of the execution layer. It acts as a proxy for all commands, classifies intent, and inspects context. If a request is sensitive, ambiguous, or outside normal patterns, the Guardian blocks autonomous execution and routes the request to human operators on the StackBob.ai team.
03 — The Vision
As Ole and Yarik kept pushing the limits of what I could do, something important became clear: the first Agentic IGA emerged. The new approach to identity governance where autonomous agents can discover, assess, and handle traditional joiner-mover-leaver processes without limitations of legacy connectors and API connectivity.
But building a new category takes more than strong engineering. It requires experience in identity, change management, enterprise adoption, and the long arc of governance itself. To accelerate enterprise expansion, the team was joined in 2026 by Nick Hunt as CEO and co-founder. Nick brought more than 25 years of hands-on experience in identity and access management across complex organizations, and he shared the same belief that governance should be continuous, full-stack, and not limited by integration constraints.
With a strengthened leadership team and an execution-first focus, StackBob has entered the next phase of growth: expanding the team, building strategic partnerships, and accelerating customer adoption. Our mission is clear: deliver identity governance across 100% of the modern application stack.
