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Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders

Building Identity Orchestration for AI Agents with Granville Schmidt of Strata

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders

Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

Tech News, News, Business, Technology, Entrepreneurship, Careers

4.6216 Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

We are bringing you a special episode, as our friends at Strata return to the podcast. You might remember our interview from Season 8 with Eric Olden, Co-founder & CEO of the company. Eric took us through the creation story of the company. Today, we will be talking with Granville Schmidt, Chief Architect at Strata, who has been instrumental in architecting and building identity orchestration for AI agents from the ground up. In our chat, we are going to be discussing how the enterprises need to take advantage of identify for agents, and can do so seamlessly, no matter their level of tech debt, disconnection, or complex migration path.

Questions

  • Let's break down Identity Orchestration for our audience. Can you explain what it is and walk us through a real customer scenario where it made a huge difference
  • Enterprises have accumulated decades of identity tech debt. What are the main problems identity orchestration solves for companies trying to modernize?
  • I noticed you work with customers in what you call DDIL environments - disconnected, disrupted, intermittent, and limited bandwidth scenarios. Can you help us understand what these environments look like in practice and why identity becomes such a critical challenge there? 
  • You've pioneered Identity Orchestration for AI Agents. What was the moment when you realized AI agents needed a fundamentally different approach to identity management?
  • Imagine a company with 1,000 employees but 50,000 AI agents running autonomously. How does your platform handle identity for all these agents differently than traditional systems?

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Okay, guys, I got a serious update for you.

0:03.0

You heard me talk about SEMA and the Product Roadmap Radar.

0:07.0

I just caught up with Matt, who's the founder there, and he gave me the latest on what they are building.

0:11.0

And my mind is blown.

0:14.0

The team at SEMA are taking things to the next level.

0:17.0

Built around the core of the Product Roadmap Radar, i.e. code and Jira analysis, they are building

0:22.9

agent orchestration across the product lifecycle. Picture this. You hook up this system same as before,

0:28.9

i.e. integrate your repository and your backlog, Jira today. From that point, Seamus agent

0:33.7

analyzes the code base and makes suggestions as to what needs to be done next and what

0:38.9

could improve, optimize the product. Then, if those tasks are routine, the agent assigns the

0:44.8

task to a coding agent, think something like Devin, to complete the minutia while assigning

0:50.1

the human-in-the-loop tasks to engineers themselves. What you end up with is engineers focusing on building core competency features,

0:58.0

while AI handles all the rest.

1:00.0

If you're not salivating right now, I don't think you fully understand what this means.

1:04.0

But here's what I would suggest.

1:06.0

Right now, their product is in a closed beta,

1:08.0

and SEMA is looking for folks to sign up for their product intelligence

1:11.6

advisory board. This gives you the opportunity to use the product, give feedback, help shape the future

1:16.8

of what's built, oh, and not to mention additional free usage of the product potentially through the end of

1:22.5

2026. So if that fits your workflow and toolset, you need to reach out today.

1:28.8

Go to codestory.co slash next level, N-E-X-T-L-E-V-E-L, and reach out to Matt at Seema to learn more

1:37.4

and join the Product Intelligence Advisory Board.

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