Case Study: Unsupervised achieves $150K/year engineering cost savings and seamless customer auth with FusionAuth

Unsupervised chooses FusionAuth, saving $150k in engineering costs for development and maintenance of an auth system

Unsupervised, a machine learning platform that deploys into customers’ environments, needed a standards-based authentication system that could meet compliance requirements, run self-sufficiently across disparate clouds, and plug into customers’ upstream identity providers like Azure AD and Okta. Rather than continue with a Django + homegrown OAuth stack, Unsupervised selected FusionAuth to avoid building and maintaining a custom auth layer and to let their engineers focus on the core product.

FusionAuth provided a standards-compliant CIAM solution with 24/7 support, API flexibility, and Kubernetes integration that abstracted away the diversity of client auth systems and enabled automated, repeatable deployments via Kickstart and FusionAuth’s APIs. By using FusionAuth’s features (including its database search engine and admin-driven upstream IDP configuration), Unsupervised saved months of development and testing, eliminated ongoing maintenance overhead, and expects at least $150k in annual savings by not hiring a senior engineer—while gaining scalability and faster customer onboarding.

Unsupervised

Justin Davis

Head of Engineering