CASS reads the access market without the vendor feedback loop. We measure where the floor sits — the baseline a platform sets for free — and report only the delta a vendor earns above it. One voice. No quadrant theatre.
Eleven vendors ranked as deltas above the Microsoft Intune EPM bundle. Switch axis — right to win, execution across the estate, completeness of vision — and watch the gaps redraw. The floor is set at zero.
Eleven vendors measured against a platform-absorbed floor, with an independence-from-platform axis replacing estate reach. The question is no longer who leads — it is who survives consolidation.
Where autonomous workloads actually execute, who holds the privilege primitive at the point of action, and why the endpoint becomes the control plane the directory never was.
Why the industry keeps solving an identity problem when the real problem is access. Standing privilege is the architectural precondition for breach — not a tuning parameter.
Identity treated as a cosmological principle rather than a directory. How the identarati built a feedback loop that rewards complexity and punishes resolution.
Machine-to-human identity ratios past 100:1, lifecycle automation under 12 percent, and what consolidation does to a market that never governed the action.
When the platform gives the baseline away for free, authority and revenue maximisation become negatively correlated above a threshold. The method behind the Floor Reports.
Why controlling what AI agents do is a runtime privilege problem, not an identity problem — and where the market actually puts the control. Six practitioner perspectives, one argument.
The industry is solving an identity problem. The actual problem is an access problem — and identity is a directory, not a cosmological principle.
SET AT ZERO, in letterspaced caps, on a plain white mug. The baseline you drink from. Dishwasher-safe; vendor-neutral.
The four overlapping circles, printed small over the heart on heavyweight white or black cotton. No slogan, no vendor logo. If you know, you know.
"Govern the action, not the actor." set huge in black and white, A1 on uncoated stock. The house position, suitable for framing — or for the office wall the identarati can see on video calls.
The marketplace opens after launch. Subscribers hear first — and the first print run of the poster will be numbered.
New Floor Reports, papers, and the occasional correction to the consensus — sent direct, single voice, no vendor cc.
Commentary
01 liveThe Seven Laws Are Right
Patrick Parker's Laws of AIdentity describe agent governance more rigorously than anyone yet. Read them with the label off and they are the case for zero standing privilege. Strike the word, keep the laws.