# authzed.com > AI-optimized mirror of authzed.com containing 50 pages totalling 47,897 words of clean markdown content, structured data, and semantic HTML. Original source: https://authzed.com. Last updated: 2026-09-07T03:27:34.006Z. Each page is available as HTML (with JSON-LD structured data) and Markdown (text-only, ideal for LLMs and RAG). ## Homepage - [AuthZed: The Authorization Platform for AI and Modern Applications](/content/site-root.html): Remove authorization bottlenecks, empower your team to innovate and expand with best-in-class performance at any scale. (374 words) ## Articles & Blog Posts - [Transcript: Building Safe AI Systems in Practice | Base Layer](/content/base-layer/emilie-schario/transcript/index.html): Full transcript of Base Layer episode 2, Building Safe AI Systems in Practice, with Emilie Schario. (7,033 words) - [Changelog | AuthZed](/content/changelog/index.html): Updates, changes, and improvements at AuthZed. (2,883 words) - [Google Cloud IAM (Spanner): SpiceDB Schema Example | AuthZed](/content/learn/spicedb-schema-examples/google-iam/index.html): Re-creates Google Cloud's IAM permissions for Spanner. A large, role-grant-driven schema with cascading project / instance / database scopes. (798 words) - [Reddit Ads Implements Scalable Sharing Capabilities using SpiceDB | AuthZed](/content/spicedb/showcase/reddit/index.html): Reddit Ads unlocks powerful collaboration between businesses, brands, and agencies by implementing SpiceDB's authorization technology to securely manage complex permissions at scale. (1,715 words) - [How Calendly Standardized Authorization to Power AI Innovation | AuthZed](/content/spicedb/showcase/calendly/index.html): Calendly adopted SpiceDB to replace fragmented, service-by-service access control with one shared authorization platform, shipping Notetaker recap sharing to GA with 25-30 ms permission checks. (1,337 words) - [AI Development with SpiceDB | AuthZed](/content/spicedb/ai-development/index.html): Open-source tools for building permission-aware AI on SpiceDB. SpiceBox, the Claude Code marketplace, MCP server reference implementations, and the LangChain integration. (424 words) - [Use Case - Customer-Managed Permissions | AuthZed](/content/use-cases/customer-managed-permissions/index.html): Enterprise customers expect to manage their own access. Let your customers control their own users without calling support with AuthZed's delegated administration. (429 words) - [Creating the blueprint for 10x growth: Turo’s authorization journey | AuthZed](/content/customers/turo/index.html): How Turo modeled their complex authorization requirements using SpiceDB and scaled their co-hosting platform globally with the support of AuthZed Dedicated. (1,521 words) - [Use Case - Team-Based Access Control | AuthZed](/content/use-cases/team-based-access-control/index.html): Users belong to teams, projects, departments, and organizations. Access should follow those relationships automatically. With AuthZed, you never have to manually sync access or worry about stale permissions. (472 words) - [About AuthZed](/content/why-authzed/index.html): Learn why AuthZed is the standard for companies looking to build and deploy scalable authorization services. (240 words) - [AI Platforms - Authorization infrastructure that respects data boundaries at scale | AuthZed](/content/industries/ai-platforms/index.html): Build AI applications that respect data boundaries and scale to billions of documents with proven authorization infrastructure. (601 words) - [Financial Services - Authorization infrastructure that scales globally for regulated environments | AuthZed](/content/industries/financial-services/index.html): Enterprise authorization infrastructure for banks, fintechs, and capital markets. SOC2 compliant, globally distributed, built for financial-grade performance. (540 words) - [Use Case - Sharing & Link Access | AuthZed](/content/use-cases/sharing-link-access/index.html): Users share with individuals, teams, or via links. Permissions just work. AuthZed handles the complexity of overlapping permissions and real-time updates. (479 words) - [Enterprise SaaS - Authorization infrastructure that scales with your platform | AuthZed](/content/industries/enterprise-saas/index.html): Ship enterprise-grade sharing, team permissions, and multi-tenant features faster with authorization infrastructure that scales with your platform. (599 words) - [AI Teams - Authorization that respects data boundaries at scale | AuthZed](/content/teams/ai-teams/index.html): Build AI applications that respect data boundaries and scale to billions of documents with proven authorization infrastructure. Bring access control to every step of your RAG pipeline and agent workflows. (574 words) - [Use Case - Replacing Legacy Authorization | AuthZed](/content/use-cases/replacing-legacy-authorization/index.html): Stop maintaining authorization code and start building features. Learn how teams migrate from legacy authorization systems to AuthZed. (444 words) - [Dibs and the Magic Library | AuthZed](/content/resources/dibs-and-the-magic-library/index.html): Dibs and the Magic Library is a picture book with a secret: it's a gentle introduction to how permissions work. From the creators of SpiceDB. (64 words) - [Use Case - Permission-Aware Lists & Search | AuthZed](/content/use-cases/permission-aware-lists-search/index.html): Show users only what they're allowed to see. Instantly. AuthZed solves filtering with pre-computed permission queries that return results in milliseconds. (429 words) - [Platform Teams - Stop maintaining authorization, start shipping platform features | AuthZed](/content/teams/platform-teams/index.html): Migrate from homegrown authorization to infrastructure that scales with your platform. Stop maintaining permission code and start building features, with delegated administration and tenant isolation built in. (477 words) - [AuthZed Dedicated](/content/products/authzed-dedicated/index.html): Designed for production environments, AuthZed provides SpiceDB permissions systems that run on dedicated resources isolated from other workloads. (315 words) - [SpiceDB | AuthZed](/content/spicedb/index.html): SpiceDB is an open source, Google Zanzibar-inspired database for creating and managing security-critical application permissions., The SpiceDB Playground is an interactive app for building, testing, and iterating on application permission models without installing any software. (533 words) - [SpiceDB Operator](/content/products/spicedb-operator/index.html): Open source Kubernetes Operator for deploying SpiceDB and optimizing Day-1 and Day-2 operations. (157 words) - [AuthZed Support](/content/products/authzed-support/index.html): At AuthZed, we're here to help teams successfully operate and build SpiceDB permissions systems. (201 words) - [Use Case - Retrieval-Augmented Generation | AuthZed](/content/use-cases/ai-retrieval-augmented-generation/index.html): Build AI applications that respect data boundaries and scale to billions of documents. Companies incorporating RAG into their AI systems use AuthZed to safely integrate sensitive and proprietary data during ingestion, retrieval, and response generation. (591 words) - [SpiceDB Clients](/content/products/spicedb-clients/index.html): A thriving, open ecosystem of official and community programs and libraries used to interact with SpiceDB. (123 words) - [The Google Zanzibar Paper, annotated by AuthZed](/content/zanzibar/index.html): Zanzibar: Google’s Consistent, Global Authorization System. An annotated copy of the original paper submitted to USENIX 2019. (12,906 words) - [Agent-to-agent (A2A) communication: A guide to Google's A2A protocol](/content/learn/agent-to-agent-communication-guide-google-a2a-protocol.html): Learn how the A2A protocol standardizes cross-agent communication and what authorization needs to look like when autonomous agents call other agents. (1,760 words) - [SpiceDB Schema Examples: Browse Real Authorization Schemas | AuthZed](/content/learn/spicedb-schema-examples/index.html): Annotated SpiceDB schema examples: ReBAC, RBAC, ABAC, caveats, GitHub-style repos, and SaaS entitlements. Browse with comments, copy the schema, and try it in the SpiceDB Playground. (690 words) - [Matillion Delivers Enterprise Permissions for Everyone | AuthZed](/content/customers/matillion/index.html): How Matillion delivered sophisticated collaboration workflows built using SpiceDB Enterprise and leveraging AuthZed Support during a successful lift and shift of their self-hosted ETL product into the new Data Platform Cloud. (912 words) - [Workday secures end-to-end collaborative workflows with AuthZed Dedicated | AuthZed](/content/customers/workday/index.html): Learn how Workday leverages AuthZed Dedicated to secure their AI-powered contract lifecycle management platform with unified access control across all stages of contract handling. (974 words) - [Media & Press | AuthZed](/content/press/index.html): AuthZed press resources, media kit, and news coverage. Contact our press team for interviews, quotes, and company information. (199 words) - [GitHub-style repositories: SpiceDB Schema Example | AuthZed](/content/learn/spicedb-schema-examples/github/index.html): Models repositories, teams, and organizations with reader / triager / writer / maintainer / admin roles, the way GitHub does it. (256 words) - [The Authorization Infrastructure Your AI Systems Need | AuthZed](/content/ai-authorization/index.html): Secure your AI systems with fine-grained authorization that scales. Build trust in your AI applications with comprehensive access control for RAG, AI agents, and more. (396 words) - [Pricing | AuthZed](/content/pricing/index.html): AuthZed, the creators of SpiceDB, empowers customers to build secure, performant, and robust authorization at global scale. Get started for free. (277 words) - [RAG Authorization: Interactive Demo | AuthZed](/content/ai-authorization/rag-demo/index.html): See how retrieval-augmented generation leaks data without authorization, and how SpiceDB fixes it. Interactive five-step walkthrough. (561 words) - [OpenAI Customer Story | AuthZed](/content/customers/openai/index.html): How OpenAI securely connects enterprise knowledge with ChatGPT for over 5 million business users by using AuthZed (681 words) - [AI agents acting on behalf of users: SpiceDB Schema Example | AuthZed](/content/learn/spicedb-schema-examples/ai-agents/index.html): An AI agent inherits access from the user it acts on behalf of, instead of holding standing permissions of its own. (98 words) - [Customer Stories | AuthZed](/content/customers/index.html): Learn about how our customers use SpiceDB for their permissions systems and how AuthZed helps with management and scale. (356 words) - [MCP authorization patterns: Beyond authentication](/content/learn/mcp-authorization-patterns/index.html): Learn why securing Model Context Protocol servers requires moving past API gateways and native hints to deploy precise execution-time authorization for AI agents. (1,427 words) - [SpiceDB Schema Validator: Free Online Tool | AuthZed](/content/learn/spicedb-schema-validator/index.html): Validate your SpiceDB authorization schema directly in your browser. Catch syntax errors, undefined types, and common mistakes with friendly, line-accurate error messages before you deploy. (446 words) - [Understanding "Failed Open" and "Fail Closed" in Software Engineering | AuthZed.com](/content/blog/fail-open/index.html): Learn about the concepts of "Failed Open" and "Fail Closed" and how they apply to software engineering and beyond. See code examples and understand the implications of unhandled scenarios. (1,092 words) - [Events | AuthZed](/content/events/index.html): Connect and learn with the AuthZed team and community. (189 words) - [AuthZed Documentation](/content/docs/index.html): Documentation for SpiceDB and AuthZed products, covering schema design, APIs, datastores, consistency, deployment, and authorization concepts. (126 words) - [Authorization Maturity Assessment | AuthZed](/content/assessment/index.html): Evaluate your organization’s authorization infrastructure across performance, agility, and risk. Get a scored breakdown and personalized profile in under 2 minutes. (94 words) - [ABAC on SpiceDB: Enabling Netflix’s Complex Identity Types | AuthZed](/content/customers/netflix/index.html): Netflix sponsored the design and development of the first-ever attribute-based access control (ABAC) model in an open source Zanzibar-inspired permissions system: SpiceDB Caveats. (222 words) - [Office Hours: Announcing the SpiceDB Query Planner for Faster Permission Checks | AuthZed](/content/events/office-hours-spicedb-query-planner/index.html): Join us May 6, 12–1 PM ET for a live Office Hours session unveiling the SpiceDB Query Planner — a major advancement that dramatically speeds up permission checks across complex authorization schemas. (88 words) - [AuthZed Blog](/content/blog/index.html): This is AuthZed's blog (156 words) - [Careers | AuthZed](/content/careers/index.html): Join AuthZed and help build the future of authorization infrastructure. Explore career opportunities with our growing team., AuthZed Jobs (110 words) - [Security Teams - Prove access, enforce it instantly, audit every decision | AuthZed](/content/teams/security-teams/index.html): Authorization infrastructure built for regulatory scrutiny. Prove who can access what, enforce permission changes instantly with strong consistency, and log every authorization decision for audit and compliance. (528 words) ## Resources - [Full Page Index](/index.html): Browse all cached pages with rich metadata - [About This Cache](/about.html): Methodology, technical details, and usage guidelines - [XML Sitemap](/sitemap.xml): Machine-readable sitemap for crawler discovery - [Robots.txt](/robots.txt): Crawler directives - [AgentSite Network](https://agentsite.network/network.html): Public index of AgentSites and their machine-readable resources