Oso

At Oso, the primary focus is on empowering developers by simplifying the complex and often frustrating process of building authorization into their applications. Developers are at the heart of innovation, creating solutions for critical global challenges, from tracking the spread of diseases in nursing homes to reducing bias in machine learning models and educating millions in coding. However, these engineers did not enter their fields to spend countless hours wrestling with authorization logic. Oso's mission is to drastically reduce the time and mental energy developers dedicate to authorization, with a goal to decrease it by a factor of ten by 2032. By providing a robust, flexible, and easy-to-use authorization framework, Oso enables developers to offload this burden and concentrate on their core missions, thereby accelerating their progress and impact.

Oso's approach is deeply rooted in a customer-centric philosophy, born not from a single founder's past pain point, but from years of iterative development and close collaboration with the developer community. The team at Oso is a diverse group of individuals with varied backgrounds, skills, and perspectives, united by a shared commitment to understanding and addressing the real-world needs of developers. This dedication has allowed them to build a product driven by genuine demand. The platform provides a 'batteries-included' framework, allowing developers to model common permissions patterns like role-based access control (RBAC), extend them with a declarative policy language called Polar, filter data access efficiently, and thoroughly test their authorization logic. By offering both an open-source library and a managed service, Oso Cloud, the company ensures that teams of all sizes can secure their applications effectively, from startups to large enterprises, and ultimately helps them ship features faster and more securely.