Case Study: Motion cuts onboarding time and streamlines compliant access management with AccessOwl

Motion recommends AccessOwl to any growing company

Motion, a startup that provides an AI-based project management tool, faced a significant challenge with its manual process for onboarding employees and provisioning their accounts. Co-founder and COO Ethan Yu was spending several hours per hire manually adding them to dozens of SaaS applications, leading to errors and a reactive "shadow IT" system. The company turned to AccessOwl for help in automating its access governance.

By implementing AccessOwl, Motion automated its user onboarding, offboarding, and access request processes directly through Slack. The solution provided a clear, compliant way for employees to request tools and for administrators to manage approvals. As a result, Motion reduced its onboarding time from two hours to less than thirty minutes per employee, achieved SOC2 compliance, and gained a full audit trail for all user access.

Motion

Ethan Yu

Cofounder & COO