Changelog

LMID is the identity layer behind every Llama Monkey product — one account for SnapMonkey, LiftMonkey, and whatever we ship next. It’s OAuth 2.0, priced and shaped for indie operators and small-team SaaS rather than enterprise IT.

Where it is today:

• The provider at id.llamamonkey.com runs.
• Our own products are integrating against it.
• Small-team SaaS operators who want LMID as the auth layer for their own apps come on through the waitlist; we provision OAuth client credentials by hand right now. The advantage of the hand-onboarding is we’ll tell you up front whether your auth shape is a fit before you spend a sprint integrating.
• Self-serve public OAuth client registration lands as part of the staged 2026 GA.

What you won’t find on the roadmap: SAML, SCIM, enterprise directory sync. Those are deliberate omissions — the buyer LMID is built for doesn’t need them, and the buyer who does need them is better served by an enterprise IdP (we tell you which one on the LMID vs Okta page).

Join the LMID waitlist →

Two new pages for press, partners, and developers who want something to point at:

• Press kit — Llama Monkey LLC logos, brand palette, founder bio, fact sheet, pronunciation guide (“Llama” rhymes with “drama”), and editorial guidance for writers covering us. If you’re working on a piece, this is the page that has what you need.
• Open source — the gems and tools we’re working on extracting from the products. A few are still scoping; we list them honestly with that status rather than pretending they’re ready. When each one is ready, the card flips to “Available on RubyGems” with the install line and the link to the GitHub repo.

Press inquiries: see the press kit. Partnership inquiries: the contact form is the path in.

We get asked all the time how LMID compares to the established identity tools. Rather than writing a pitch deck, we wrote three honest comparison pages that name the trade-offs explicitly — including the cases where the competitor is the better call.

• LMID vs Okta — Okta is the right call if your buyer’s procurement checklist requires SAML, SCIM, and SOC 2. LMID is the right call if you’re shipping a small-team SaaS and you want OAuth without enterprise pricing.
• LMID vs Auth0 — Auth0 wins on SDK breadth and social-federation count. LMID wins on cross-product family-of-apps identity (one account across SnapMonkey, LiftMonkey, and what we ship next).
• LMID vs Zapier — different products, often compared by buyers conflating “identity layer” with “automation layer.” We try to clarify which problem you actually have.

If you’re evaluating and you’d rather a quick conversation than a long doc, the LMID waitlist is the right door — we onboard early adopters by hand right now and the conversation usually surfaces whether we’re the right fit in the first five minutes.

Each Llama Monkey product is shaped around a specific buyer. Photographers shoot 2,000+ frames a day and want them off the card before the drive home. MSPs run a dozen internal SaaS apps and want one place to manage technician access. Designers paste Instagram and Pinterest URLs and want the media in their project folder. Retail operators run a Canon body for product photography or a small SaaS stack for staff sign-on. Small-team SaaS founders want OAuth without enterprise sales calls.

We’ve published a dedicated landing page for each of those buyer shapes:

• For photographers — Canon-to-cloud workflow + reference capture
• For managed service providers — internal staff sign-on (NOT client tenants — that’s Entra ID’s job)
• For designers — reference-media capture for project work
• For retail and small business — product photography + staff sign-on, pick one or both
• For small-team SaaS identity buyers — modern SSO without enterprise pricing or sales cycles

Each page includes the honest “when this isn’t the right fit” block — because the cost of pretending we fit when we don’t is high for everyone.

Three hyper-specific cells are also live for buyers with sharper intent: Canon-to-cloud for photographers via SnapMonkey, MSP internal staff identity via LMID, and small-team SaaS identity via LMID.

This page is the new home of customer-visible release notes across the Llama Monkey product family: SnapMonkey, LiftMonkey, LMID, and what we ship next.

What you’ll see here from now on: shipped changes that affect people using one of our products — new integrations, new features, new pricing tiers, beta openings, GA launches. What you won’t see: internal engineering notes, decision logs, or “deferred to next sprint” narrative. Those belong somewhere else.

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