FY26 / Q2 Identity Brief No. 014
Strix is the identity and access governance layer for nocturnal raptor populations. Provision, attest, and audit every Tyto alba on your property with the same rigor your security team applies to a quarterly close.
A seven-microphone perch array listens continuously to your barn and matches every vocalization against the registered hoot signature for that owl. Three consecutive non-matches silently revoke roost access and page the on-call ornithologist. Recovery requires a daylight visit from a Strix Customer Success representative.
Define policies down to the rafter. Juveniles are blocked from the upper loft until their fledgling milestone is attested by a licensed handler. Visiting owls receive sundown-to-sunrise credentials that auto-expire at first light. Every gate transition writes an immutable event to the audit ledger.
From first molt to dispersal, Strix manages the full owl employment cycle. New fledglings are auto-provisioned the moment plumage maturity is detected by the camera array. Departing owls (dispersal, predation, retirement) are deprovisioned within four hours of confirmation, with a configurable seven-year retention window on their access logs.
We had three barn owls all named Ash. Strix was the first product that could tell them apart.
Wren Halloran-Pike
Operations Lead, Pike Family Working Barn
Our last audit took eleven hours and a forensic ornithologist. This year it took thirty-eight minutes and a complimentary bottle of port.
Dr. Bram Oosthuizen, PhD
Avian Compliance Officer, North Channel Trust
We onboarded a juvenile in November. By December we had a defensible access trail. Our insurer noticed.
Lucinda Marsh
Director of Husbandry, Marsh & Marsh Estate
One barn. Up to six owls. Monthly access review.
Up to twenty-four owls across four sites. Cross-barn SSO.
Unlimited birds. On-prem. Full residency control.