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Direct engagement

Get AuthZ.

Step 01

Evaluate

The hosted demo environment is open. Create an account, provision a tenant, write policies in the console, call the API, and read the audit trail back. It runs the same release we operate in production — scoped for evaluation, not for your production traffic.

Step 02

Talk to us

AuthZ is sold as an on-prem license under direct commercial terms. Write to us with your deployment shape — cluster, scale, integration surface — and you will correspond with the engineers who build and operate the system, not a sales pipeline.

Step 03

Deploy

You run AuthZ on your own Kubernetes or Linux infrastructure. Your policies, your data, your audit log — on hardware you control. We supply the binaries, the manifests, and direct engineering support through integration.

The engagement

What a license includes.

  • A commercial license for on-prem deployment, scoped to your organization.
  • Container images and Kubernetes manifests for the AuthZ service, console, and CLI.
  • Deployment and integration documentation, and direct engineering support through integration.
  • Security advisories and maintenance releases for supported versions.
  • Terms — scope, support, and price — set in the engagement, in writing.
Frequently asked

Questions, answered plainly.

Is there self-serve pricing?

No. We withdrew subscription tiers in 2026. AuthZ is sold as an on-prem license under direct terms; the demo environment is free for evaluation.

Who is AuthZ for?

Platform teams who want an unbundled authorization service behind their own products: one policy engine, one decision point, one audit trail, shared by every service they run — without adopting a hosted third-party dependency on the authorization plane.

Is AuthZ maintained?

Yes. We operate the hosted AuthZ deployment in production ourselves, on the same release we license, with security fixes and maintenance releases as part of every engagement.

Can I run it in production before buying?

The demo environment is for evaluation, not production traffic. Production use runs under a license, on your infrastructure. If your evaluation needs exceed the demo environment, write to us.

Ready to talk?

Write to sales@housecarl.cloud or directly to paul@upside-down-research.com. Or drive the demo console first.