Data ownership for organizations.
Today, your organizational data belongs to the SaaS providers you use — the Notions, Linears, and Figmas — not to you. Worse, it's siloed in these providers, making the data less useful to you and cross-app workflows clunky. Habitat changes that by providing a unified data layer that third-party apps request access to read and write to, not the other way around.
Today vs. with habitat
The old way
Today, apps own the data you create with the app. Your organization has to request its own data back from each provider, one silo at a time.
The habitat way
With habitat, your data lives in one place that you control. Apps need to request access to it, rather than holding it hostage.
What habitat offers
Cross-app workflows are trivial
Integrations between your SaaS providers or workflows spanning many data sources shouldn't be limited by other companies' roadmaps or willingness to work with each other. With habitat, you own all your data, so you can build the agentic workflows and tools that work for your organization specifically; including the ones that no one else would build for you.
Your data, ready for AI
You can't safely point agents at data you don't own. Habitat gives your organization a single, governed substrate that agents and models can read from and write to — so you can build AI workflows on your own data, with permissions and auditability intact, rather than handing it off to SaaS providers, or being limited by the AI features they ship.
No vendor lock-in
Switching tools today means a migration project, often with dedicated engineering teams: exporting from one SaaS provider, importing into another, and hoping nothing breaks. With habitat, the data never moved — it lives with you. Swapping an app on top is trivial, and your organization's history comes with it.
Pay for the people who actually need to use the product
Today, data is gated by who has access to each SaaS provider. This means your whole org needs to pay for most software, when many seats exist just so people can see that data, not use the SaaS product. Because you own your data with habitat, team members use the product that works for them and pay for only their setas, rather than paying for everyone.
Rich access control and permissioning, across apps
We've all seen the Slack channel that was meant to be private, or the doc that accidentally leaked outside the exec team. Habitat provides a rich permissioning layer that is shared across apps, so your team in your docs editor is the same as the team in your messaging platform is the same as your team in your code management platform.
Identity management and offboarding without data loss
In habitat, org member identities are owned by the org, persist over time, and each identity gets its own data bucket. When someone leaves the company, their data doesn't become their manager's or get lost in some admin drafts folder — it remains tied to their identity, forever, preserving historical context.
Admin app authorization
Control which organizational members can use which products and what data those products have access to.
Know where your data lives
"Where is our data, and who can read it?" is a question legal and security teams ask constantly — and one that usually requires a SOC2 packet to answer. With habitat, the answer is short: it's in the data layer you control, accessed only by the apps you've authorized, with every read and write governed by your permissioning policy.
Coming soon
Agent identity platform
Run agents that inherit permissions from their creators.
Audit logging
See exactly who (or whose agent) did what. Get clarity on organizational decision making.
If this sounds like something your organization could use, talk to us.
If you're a developer and care about giving your users the best experience, learn how to build on habitat through our API docs, or reach out.