Case Study: Homebase modernizes auth and future-proofs for AI agents with Stytch

How Homebase Untangled Legacy Auth & Future-Proofed for AI Agents with Stytch

Homebase, the small-business operations platform behind scheduling, time tracking, hiring, and payroll for more than 150,000 businesses, needed to replace its brittle Devise-based authentication system. As its user base and login methods expanded, auth became harder to maintain, created bugs and support tickets, and pulled engineering time away from product work. Homebase turned to Stytch for a developer-first identity platform that could simplify authentication without forcing a new UI or taking away backend control.

With Stytch, Homebase moved core login flows to backend APIs, added MFA for sensitive actions like payroll access, improved fraud defenses with options like device fingerprinting, and supported secure user impersonation and testing in CI/CD. The result was faster development, less time spent troubleshooting auth and fraud issues, stronger security, and a future-ready path for AI agents through Connected Apps. Homebase says Stytch helped them decouple auth from their Rails monolith and reclaim engineering time to focus on core features.

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Andy Mention

Sn. Engineering Manager