Modern authorization, roles, and feature flags for SaaS teams

Bailiff lets you plug in roles, permissions, feature flags, plan entitlements, groups, and Google Docs–style sharing in minutes—not months. One service, one model, clean APIs.

Founding users get free model migration and locked-in beta pricing.

What Bailiff is

Bailiff is a hosted authorization and feature control service that gives you roles, permissions, feature flags, plan entitlements, groups, and Google Docs–style sharing in one system.

Your App
Bailiff
check(who, what)
DB / Services

The authorization pain you already know

Bailiff replaces log soup with one place to define “who can do what.”

  • × You can't scale is_admin and user_id = owner forever.
  • × Permissions are scattered across services and code paths.
  • × Feature flags have turned into accidental access control.
  • × Plan tiers are hard-coded in business logic.
  • × Nobody can answer “who can see this?” with confidence.
  • × Compliance wants an audit trail; you have log soup.

How Bailiff fixes it

Everything you need to manage access, in one unified model.

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Roles & Permissions

Start with simple roles (admin, editor, viewer) and expand into fine-grained permissions. Change rules in the UI; your code just calls check().
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Feature Flags & Entitlements

Turn features on/off per plan, tenant, team, or user. Ship experiments and betas gated by roles or groups. No more duplicating rules.
🤝

Google Docs–style Sharing

Model folders, documents, teams, and shared links. Inherit access from folders to contents. Share with individuals or entire organizations.
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Groups & Multi-tenant

Group users into teams. Keep tenants fully isolated by design. Support complex org charts without complex code.
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Explainable Checks

Every decision has a “why”. See the exact path: user → group → role → permission → resource. Perfect for debugging and audits.

Ready to build?

Get access to the UI and SDKs as they go live.

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Built to be seen, not guessed

Visual tools to model, manage, and audit your authorization logic.

Visual Model Builder

User
Document
Role
Model Editor

Define entities and relationships visually

Role Editor

Admin
Full Access
Editor
Can Edit
Permissions
can_view can_edit can_delete
Role Manager

Adjust role permissions live

Relationship Graph

Graph Explorer

See how objects connect

Audit Pane

ALLOW alice check(doc:123, edit)
└─ via role:admin
DENY bob check(doc:123, delete)
Live Logs

Explain why access was allowed/denied

Who Bailiff is for

SaaS teams outgrowing simple role checks

Platforms with shared folders, documents, or resources

Products with multiple plan tiers and complex entitlements

Teams that want hosted convenience now and self-host options later

Ready to fix authorization?

Join the waitlist and be among the first to get enterprise-grade authorization without the enterprise bill.