β€” About / Builders

We're builders.
Just like you.

Three engineers from Rio de Janeiro who got tired of rebuilding the same auth infrastructure for every product. So we decided to build it once, properly.

Founded 2024 Β· Rio de JaneiroBootstrapped Β· No investorsThree engineers
β€” 01 / The problem

Every product we built
hit the same wall.

RIO DE JANEIRO
β†’ 2018–2024
β†’ 14 products
β†’ 1 recurring tax

Login page. Multi-tenant. SSO because one buyer requires it. RBAC because support needs different permissions. Audit logs because compliance asks. Every product we worked on, the same story. Months of engineering that had nothing to do with what we were actually building.

We tried the existing solutions. Some were too simple β€” they broke the moment an enterprise prospect showed up with a security questionnaire. Others were too complex β€” you needed a dedicated team just to configure them. And every one of them charged more the moment you needed the features that actually mattered.

We kept saying the same thing to each other: someone should build this properly. An auth platform that works from day one through enterprise scale. That doesn't punish you for growing. That solves the hard parts so you can focus on your product.

Eventually we realized that someone was us.

We didn't want to build an auth company. We just got tired of building the same auth, over and over, for every product that wasn't an auth company.β€” founders, kickoff doc, march 2024
β€” 02 / How we think

Strong opinions
about how auth should work.

Not marketing.
β†’ Lessons paid for
β†’ in production scars

These aren't pitch-deck talking points. They're the lessons we paid for in 3am pages and last-minute SOCΒ 2 scrambles, building auth on top of someone else's auth, and then on top of our own.

OPINION 01
Multi-tenant from the foundation.
Tenant isolation isn't a feature you add later. It's an architectural decision that has to be right on day one. We built Authaz around it β€” every primitive, every audit row, every key.
OPINION 02
Enterprise-ready on every plan.
Your first enterprise deal shouldn't be blocked by a pricing page. SAML, SCIM, audit log export, and IP allowlists are ready when your buyers are β€” not after a sales call.
OPINION 03
Auth should disappear.
If your team is debugging auth at 2am, something is broken. We build the kind of infrastructure you forget exists β€” invisible on the happy path, loud and specific when it isn't.
OPINION 04
We fund this ourselves.
No investors. No pressure to ship features half-built. We build what our customers need, not what a pitch deck demands. The roadmap belongs to the people writing the code.
100%
Bootstrapped
0
Investors / Board seats
3
Engineers, no PMs
2026
Public launch year
β€” 03 / Who we are

Three engineers
from Rio de Janeiro.

β†’ 22.9Β°S, 43.2Β°W
β†’ No SF address
β†’ No board
β†’ Just the product

We spent years building auth systems we didn't want to build β€” at companies like VTEX, Stone, Deel, Cazoo, and IBM. Now we build the one that ensures nobody else has to. Built in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Self-funded. No investors, no board, no Silicon Valley address. Just us and the product.

Previously worked at
ex-VTEXex-Stoneex-Deelex-Cazooex-IBM
FOUNDER Β· 01
RV
Rodrigo Vidal
CEO & co-founder
Rio de Janeiro, BR
Led engineering teams where auth always ate the roadmap. Built Authaz to solve it for every team after his.
FOUNDER Β· 02
MC
Matheus Costa
Head of DX
Rio de Janeiro, BR
Obsessed with developer tools that get out of your way. If you have to read the docs twice, he considers it a bug.
FOUNDER Β· 03
FL
Franklin Lisboa
Head of Infrastructure
Rio de Janeiro, BR
Builds the infrastructure that doesn't fall over. Has scaled systems handling millions of auth events per day.

Built in Rio de Janeiro.

Self-funded. No investors. No board. No SF address. Three engineers, one product, one timezone. We answer support tickets ourselves and the roadmap is whatever our customers tell us is broken first.

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