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.
Adding someone to a team should grant them access to team resources. Removing them should revoke it. But most authorization systems require you to:
Write code that copies team membership into permission tables
Run background jobs to sync changes (and debug them when they fail)
Manually audit for users who left teams but still have access
Handle edge cases like users on multiple teams with different roles
The result: permission changes take minutes instead of milliseconds, stale access creates security risks, and your team spends time on access management instead of building features.
Define the relationship once: "team members can view team resources." AuthZed evaluates membership at request time, so when you add someone to a team in your system, they have access immediately. No sync required.
Users belong to teams. Teams belong to departments. Departments belong to organizations. AuthZed traverses these hierarchies in milliseconds, so a user in the Engineering team automatically inherits access granted to the Engineering department.
Team leads get different access than team members. Project owners can do more than contributors. Define roles once in your schema, and AuthZed applies them consistently across your entire application.
No waiting for cron jobs. No "please refresh in a few minutes." When team membership changes, the next permission check reflects that change. Strong consistency guarantees mean you never grant access that should have been revoked.
Team members access project files, conversations, and settings. When the project ends or team changes, access updates automatically.
HR accesses HR systems. Engineering accesses engineering tools. Cross-functional teams get access to both, without duplicating permissions.
Your customers' employees inherit access based on their internal team structure. Customer admins manage teams; permissions follow.
External collaborators join project teams with limited roles. When the engagement ends, removing them from the team revokes all access.
See how team membership becomes the source of truth for access control.