Platform

A platform, not a pile of workflows.

Cube23 is built from the inside out. The value lives in four things that can’t be reproduced with AI-generated forms: a protocol, a zero-trust worker fabric, an evidence ledger, and a memory engine that compounds over time.

01 · The Protocol

The Cube23 Protocol is the operating system.

Without the protocol, Cube23 would be workflow automation. With it, every identity operation carries a complete, typed contract — what’s being done, why, who approved it, which worker may act, what proof is required, and how the result is verified.

Defines

Intent & object

The action, the target object — user, group, mailbox, entitlement, privileged role — and the business justification behind it.

Binds

Policy & approval

Risk level, required controls, and the approval contract are part of the operation, not a separate ticket someone reconciles later.

Seals

Execution & worker trust

Which connector and worker posture may execute. Nothing runs unless it was compiled into the protocol and sealed in an envelope.

Proves

Evidence & verification

The proof to capture and how final state is confirmed are declared up front — evidence is part of execution, not after-the-fact reporting.

02 · Zero-Trust Worker Fabric

Workers earn the right to act — one job at a time.

Hybrid operations need execution near AD, LDAP, Exchange, and private networks. Traditional agents sit there permanently over-trusted. Cube23 does the opposite: a worker can do nothing until it’s handed a valid, signed envelope.

No standing trust

Just-in-time authorization

Permission exists for one job and a short window. When the envelope expires, so does the worker’s ability to act.

Scoped

One action, one target

A worker validates the control-plane signature, then performs only the specified action on the specified object — nothing more.

Trust-scored

Posture decides eligibility

Certificate validity, version, runtime integrity, and patch posture roll into a live trust score. Drift lowers it; a vault token issue blocks execution.

Revocable

Instant kill switch

The platform can quarantine or revoke any worker immediately. Health and reliability feed back into future assignment.

03 · Evidence Ledger

Every operation produces audit-grade proof by default.

Auditors, security, and operations all trust the same record because it’s generated as the work happens — not reconstructed from logs. Request, policy decision, approval trail, before/after state, execution transcript, and verification result travel together as a hashed evidence pack.

evidence-record.json
{
  "evidenceId": "ev-2026-55881",
  "operationId": "op-2026-000123",
  "type": "EXECUTION_VERIFICATION",
  "result": "SUCCESS",
  "verifiedBy": "entra-graph-connector",
  "proof": { "verificationMethod": "Graph API members lookup" },
  "hash": "sha256:a91f...verified"
}

04 · Identity Memory Engine

The platform gets better the longer it runs.

Every request, approval, failure, and rollback enriches a long-term memory of how your identity environment actually operates. That memory drives smarter approval routing, safer rollback, and — only once it’s mature — recommendations that always cite the signals behind them.

Memory

Operational history

Access grants, approvals, policy exceptions, and execution outcomes per identity — a living operational twin of each user and object.

Graph

Relationship context

Users, accounts, groups, apps, privileges, and owners, mapped across systems that normally keep this scattered — enabling blast-radius and toxic-combination analysis.

Intelligence

Guarded assistance

Recommendations and anomaly signals that never bypass protocol, policy, or evidence. AI assists; human accountability stays clear.

The stack

Ten layers. One execution path.

The kernel is built first — protocol, workflow, evidence, worker fabric, connectors, memory. Everything else extends it through the same contract.

Cube23 Protocol EngineCompiles every operation into a typed, signed contractP0
Policy Decision EngineRisk, controls, and approval requirements before executionP0
Workflow OrchestratorStateful lifecycle, retries, and compensation logicP0
Zero-Trust Worker FabricSigned, scoped, expiring execution envelopesP0
Evidence LedgerImmutable, hashed proof of every operationP0
Connector RuntimeAD, Entra, Exchange, PAM, SCIM, cloud IAM targetsP0
Identity Memory EngineLong-term operational learning across the environmentP0
Identity Graph EngineRelationship intelligence across users, apps, ownersP1
Ecosystem HubConnector, operation, policy, and evidence packsP2
Intelligence LayerRecommendations, anomaly detection, guarded automationP3

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