One place to manage roles, permissions, entitlements, feature flags, and sharing

Stop scattering access control across backend checks, feature flags, plan logic, and ownership rules. Bailiff gives SaaS teams one model for who can do what.

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

What 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

See Bailiff in 4 real scenarios

Pick a use case that matches your product and see how Bailiff models it.

🛡️

Simple RBAC

Multi-tenant B2B SaaS with Admin, Editor, and Viewer roles. Full tenant isolation built in.

RolesTenantsPermissions
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🚩

Plan Entitlements

Gate features by plan tier. Free, Pro, and Enterprise with feature flags tied to groups.

Feature FlagsPlansGroups
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🤝

Google Docs Sharing

Folders, documents, and shared links with inherited permissions flowing down the hierarchy.

SharingHierarchyInheritance
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🔍

Support & Admin Access

Scoped read-only access for support agents with full audit trails on every action.

Scoped AccessAudit TrailInternal Tools
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The authorization pain you already know

Bailiff replaces scattered logic 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.

🛡️

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().
🚩

Feature Flags & Entitlements

Turn features on/off per plan, tenant, team, or user. Ship experiments and betas gated by roles or groups.
🤝

Google Docs-style Sharing

Model folders, documents, teams, and shared links. Inherit access from folders to contents. Share with individuals or entire organizations.
🏢

Groups & Multi-tenant

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

Explainable Checks

Every decision has a "why". See the exact path: user → group → role → permission → resource.

Ready to explore?

Try a live scenario in the playground.

Try the Playground

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

Explainable Checks

ALLOW alice check(doc:123, edit)
└─ via role:editor on team:engineering
└─ team:engineering is member of org:acme
DENY bob check(doc:123, delete)
└─ no path found
Live Traces

See exactly why access was allowed or denied

Relationship Graph

Graph Explorer

Visualize how users, groups, roles, and resources connect

Audit Trail

alice → edit doc:123
2ms
bob → delete doc:123
1ms
carol → view folder:marketing
3ms
Audit Log

Every check is logged and queryable

Frequently asked questions

Become a Founding Design Partner

Apply for the founding beta and get hands-on help building your authorization model.

  • Free migration review
  • Schema modeling help
  • Locked beta pricing
  • Direct support