# This Will Be Your Team's Best Hire: Agent Cake
_Agent Cake, Cakewalk's AI provisioning agent, creates and removes app accounts as people join, move and leave, even in apps that sell SCIM only on a higher plan._
By Gil Röder, CPO & Co-Founder
Published: 2026-10-12
Source: https://www.cakewalk.security/blog/agent-cake-best-hire
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Read this job posting as if you were applying for it:
_Figure: Open Role: Access Coordinator. [object Object], [object Object], [object Object]. About the Role: The job will cover creating and removing accounts across the company's apps whenever someone joins, changes roles or leaves. What You'll Do: Set up a new hire's accounts so they're ready on day one; Move people's access along when they change roles; Remove accounts when people leave or their access expires; Create and remove accounts in apps that reserve account automation for a higher plan; Wait for approval, hand off what you can't finish and log every change; Make sure people's AI agents lose access when the people do. What We're Looking For: Admin access to each app you manage; Sign-in by password with an authenticator code, by email link or through Google or Microsoft; Careful records of each change you make._
Would you take this job? Mid-market companies now run 164 apps on average, up from 116 a year earlier, according to BetterCloud[1]. That many apps mean a lot of effort, complex access rights, a high risk of errors, costly mistakes and a lot of manual work.
The good news is that you can hire Agent Cake for this job immediately. Agent Cake is Cakewalk's provisioning agent, which creates or removes accounts there across your app stack even in cases where no APIs are available. Cakewalk is the platform behind Agent Cake and tracks who needs which app.
## 1. Gets Accounts Ready for Day One
Agent Cake has a new hire’s accounts ready on day one. When someone joins in the HR system, Cakewalk picks the apps that come with their role, and Agent Cake creates each account with the right permissions. Turn on [No-Touch Onboarding](https://www.cakewalk.security/docs/human-access/how-to-guides/users-and-groups/joiner-mover-leaver-jml) and nobody has to step in. A fast growing company can hire ten or a hundred people a month without adding anyone to IT. New joiners start work on their first morning instead of filing tickets and waiting days for access.
### Is Your App Already Supported?
_Agent Cake can set up accounts in these apps today. We keep adding apps, so this list is a snapshot._
_Figure: A searchable list of the apps Agent Cake already supports. Typing an app name shows whether it is supported or links to a demo request when it is not listed._
## 2. Moves Access When People Move
When people change roles, Agent Cake moves their access along. The update in the HR system places the person in new groups in Cakewalk. Cakewalk creates requests to grant the new role's apps and to remove the apps it no longer needs. Agent Cake then carries them out without waiting for an approver. A request an employee raises outside a role still needs approval from the approver named in the company's policy. The employee asks for an app in Cakewalk or in [Slack](https://www.cakewalk.security/docs/human-access/connections-and-integrations/cakewalk-for-slack), the approver approves it and Agent Cake sets up the account. The big advantage is that access keeps matching the current job instead of piling up.
## 3. Removes Access When People Leave
An account that stays active after someone leaves lets that person, or anyone holding their login, back into the company's data. Closing that gap is one of the most important requirements in managing employee access. BetterCloud found that 18% of organizations had a data breach caused by an offboarded user[1]. That is why Cakewalk makes sure that when someone leaves, one confirmation starts removal in each app the person holds in Cakewalk. Agent Cake removes the account in each app set up for it.
Access can also end on a set date. With [Time-Based Access](/glossary/time-based-access), a request carries an end date. Our blog article [App Access and Admin Rights Can Now Carry an End Date](https://www.cakewalk.security/blog/time-based-access-end-date) covers Time-Based Access in detail. After the end date passes, Cakewalk creates the removal request itself and Agent Cake removes the account in apps set up for Agent Cake. Leftover accounts also cost money. The example below is only an illustration. It shows the direction these costs take, not exact amounts.
### What an Open Account Costs After Someone Leaves
_Each app bills a seat until someone removes the account. Pick the apps, then set how many people leave a year and how many months their accounts stay open. This is only an example. It uses list prices per seat from each company's website and shows the order of magnitude these costs quickly reach._
_Figure: An interactive example of what leftover accounts cost. Readers pick apps (Notion, Miro, Figma, Vercel and Jira) and set leavers a year and the months an account stays open. The figure multiplies them by each app's monthly seat price into a yearly cost in euros or dollars._
## 4. Works Without SCIM Enabled
The standard way to automate account provisioning in an app is [SCIM](https://www.cakewalk.security/glossary/scim). Many vendors sell it only on their most expensive subscription tiers. Vercel is one example. Its Pro plan costs $20 per developer seat a month. SAML [single sign-on](/glossary/sso) is a $300 monthly add-on[5]. Its [SCIM](/glossary/scim) feature, Directory Sync, comes only with the Enterprise plan[10]. That is Vercel's highest plan, and its pricing page lists the price only as "Custom"[5].
### The Price of Account Automation
_Many companies already pay for the SCIM plan, which each vendor names differently. Add an app and pick a team size to see how much a company would save a year by stepping down from the SCIM plan. Prices are shown per user a month, assuming annual billing. The numbers give only a rough estimate of the price gap, not of what else the higher plan includes._
_Figure: An interactive table of what SCIM adds to the bill. The reader adds Figma, Zoom or GitHub and picks 10, 50, 100 or 250 users per app. Each row shows the cheapest plan with SCIM, the cheaper plan Agent Cake works on and the extra cost a year between them. Figma Organization costs $39 more per user a month than Professional, Zoom Business costs $4.17 more than Pro and GitHub Enterprise costs $17 more than Team. Totals add up the yearly gap and count the plans a company could step down from._
This is the hard part we solved. We built integrations that let Agent Cake create and remove accounts in apps without SCIM. That covers apps where the company isn’t on the plan that includes SCIM and apps that don’t offer SCIM on any plan. Agent Cake [signs in to the app](https://www.cakewalk.security/docs/human-access/how-to-guides/auto-provisioning) with its own admin login and makes the change the way an admin would. Companies get the account automation usually sold with enterprise plans, while staying on the plan they already pay for.
## 5. Waits for Approval and Logs Every Change
Agent Cake never decides who gets access. People do, when they confirm a hire or a departure, approve a request or pick which groups skip the check. Agent Cake only carries out the decision. We recommend running Agent Cake on its own [service account](/glossary/service-account), such as agent.cake@company.com. Its work then stays apart from anyone’s daily activity in the app, and the account can be limited to the rights it needs and watched on its own. Cakewalk also records every Agent Cake action in its [audit log](/glossary/audit-trail) and shows which runs succeeded or failed in each app.
The admin logins Agent Cake uses are [encrypted in your browser](https://www.cakewalk.security/docs/human-access/how-to-guides/auto-provisioning/how-it-works/security-and-data-protection) before they ever reach Cakewalk, and stored in a database that belongs to your company alone. They are unlocked only in memory while a job runs, thrown away when it ends and never written down in plain text. Every unlock is logged through Amazon KMS.
## 6. Closes the Door for AI Agents Too
The last duty in the job posting is to make sure people's AI agents lose access when the people do, which matters because an agent that keeps a former employee's access can keep acting in the company's apps. AI agents have no identity of their own but borrow the one of the user delegating the task to them through [OAuth](/glossary/oauth). They run in agent platforms such as Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor, with the access of the person who hands them a task. So the apps Agent Cake grants and removes also decide which apps a person's agents can access. When a project's access ends, the agents lose it too. For companies that also run Cakewalk's Agent Access, which governs what AI agents may do in company apps, the [MCP Gateway](https://www.cakewalk.security/blog/governing-the-new-frontier-the-missing-layer-for-agent-access) checks every tool call an agent makes against the company's policies as it happens. In that setup, [offboarding](https://www.cakewalk.security/docs/platform-overview/human-access-and-agent-access/user-lifecycle) also removes a person's agent access.
## Bring Agent Cake Onto the Team
Would you hire Agent Cake? [Book a demo](https://www.cakewalk.security/book-demo) to see it create and remove accounts in your team's apps.
## References
1. BetterCloud.
2. Notion: pricing and billing pages, checked 2026-10-06.
3. Miro: pricing and billing pages, checked 2026-10-06.
4. Figma: pricing and billing pages, checked 2026-10-06.
5. Vercel: pricing and billing pages, checked 2026-10-06.
6. Jira: pricing and billing pages, checked 2026-10-06.
7. Figma: pricing and SCIM pages, checked 2026-10-06.
8. Zoom: pricing and SCIM pages, checked 2026-10-06.
9. GitHub: pricing and SCIM pages, checked 2026-10-06.
10. Vercel: Directory Sync documentation, checked 2026-10-07.