Descope

Descope provides a customer identity and access management (CIAM) platform that also extends to "agentic" identity for AI agents and Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. Customers build and customize identity journeys using visual drag-and-drop workflows, SDKs, or APIs, covering signup, login, multi-factor authentication, single sign-on, and step-up authentication. The workflow interface governs both the frontend user-facing screens, with granular styling controls, and backend logic, so authentication flows can be changed without modifying or redeploying the application codebase.

The platform's management layer covers user lifecycle operations such as merging and syncing identities across authentication methods, verification of identifiers like email addresses and phone numbers, and fine-grained authorization models including RBAC, ReBAC, and ABAC. Self-service capabilities let end users and tenant administrators manage profiles, users, roles, access keys, audit logs, and SSO configuration. Security features include passwordless authentication aimed at reducing phishing and credential-stuffing risk, adaptive MFA triggered by native and third-party risk signals, and step-up authentication before sensitive in-app actions.

Use cases marketed by the company span B2C CIAM (passwordless auth, A/B testing of flows, anonymous user tracking), B2B CIAM (self-service SSO and SCIM setup, SSO migration, multi-tenancy, delegated administration, fine-grained access), account takeover prevention, identity orchestration with just-in-time provisioning and data syncs across more than 50 third-party tools, identity federation to unify identities across multiple applications and identity providers, and agentic identity infrastructure for AI agents and MCP servers.

Business model

Descope sells a hosted identity platform to organizations that embed authentication and authorization into their own customer-facing, partner-facing, and AI agent applications, offering a choice of no-code flows, SDKs, and APIs so buyers can either replace an existing auth stack or augment it.

Traction

The company states it powers authentication for thousands of organizations ranging from startups to Fortune 500 companies, and publishes case studies with named executives, including a testimonial from Navan's EVP of Engineering.

Latest developments

Descope has extended its platform beyond human customer identity into agentic identity, marketing an Agentic Identity Hub for building and deploying AI agents and MCP servers with offloaded authorization, scope-based access control, consent and token management, and dynamic client registration security, promoted through an AI Launch Week.