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The Algebrix Identity Tenant Sprawl Trap

Symptom: Client invoices show $649/mo Growth seats billed for tenants that were never decommissioned after a project ended. Root cause: Algebrix Identity bills per tenant and per user seat, so every abandoned client environment keeps consuming Starter or Growth plan capacity until someone manually deprovisions it.

By InnovaAI ResearchPublished

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How do you recognize it?
  • •Client invoices show $649/mo Growth seats billed for tenants that were never decommissioned after a project ended.
  • •Login pages still display the agency's brand on a client product that churned six months ago.
  • •Audit log exports fail during a client's SOC 2 review because retention was left at the default per-tenant setting.
  • •The client's engineering team opens tickets asking why their OIDC callback URLs changed after an agency handoff.
  • •AI agent credentials issued during a pilot remain active in production with no owner listed in the user directory.
Why does it happen?
  • •Algebrix Identity bills per tenant and per user seat, so every abandoned client environment keeps consuming Starter or Growth plan capacity until someone manually deprovisions it.
  • •White-label branding and custom domains are configured per tenant, which means a single missed teardown step leaves client-facing login surfaces pointing at agency infrastructure.
  • •The platform's strength is developer integration rather than turnkey client portals, so agencies that skip the admin runbook leave clients unable to manage their own users after delivery.
  • •Audit log retention is a per-tenant policy decision, and agencies that never set it during onboarding discover the gap only when a compliance-driven client in healthcare or fintech requests evidence.
How do you fix it?
  • •Run a tenant inventory in the Algebrix admin console, flag every organization slug with no active client contract, and deprovision or downgrade those tenants before the next billing cycle.
  • •Set explicit audit log retention per tenant during onboarding and export a sample log to confirm the client's compliance team can read it.
  • •Transfer custom domain DNS records and admin credentials to the client at handoff, then remove the agency's brand styling from the tenant.
  • •Revoke or reassign AI agent credentials created during pilots, and add an owner field to every machine identity in the user directory.
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