For Enterprise Buyers

Is the ecosystem control plane right for your organisation?

A structured evaluation guide to help you determine whether Raidiam Connect is the right investment — and how to scope, justify, and plan the deployment.

Enterprise Evaluation Kit

Everything you need to evaluate Raidiam

Step 1

Understand the category

Raidiam Connect is not an API gateway or IAM platform. It is a ecosystem control plane. Understanding this distinction is the first step to evaluating it correctly.

API GatewaysKong, Apigee

Route API traffic. Connect does not do this.

IAM PlatformsOkta, Azure AD

Authenticate users. Connect does not do this.

Consent ManagersOzone, ForgeRock

Manage consent lifecycle. Connect does not do this.

Raidiam Connect

Governs trust relationships, participant identity, certificates, and policy across organisational boundaries

Works alongside all of the above.

Step 2

Map your requirements

Use this checklist to determine which capabilities you need from your trust infrastructure.

How many organisations need to participate?10s? 100s? 1000s?
How many clouds do they span?Single cloud? Multi-cloud? On-prem?
Do you need PKI / certificate management?Yes / No
Do you need conformance testing?Yes / No
Do you need policy delegation?Yes / No
Do you need real-time ecosystem signals?Yes / No
Do you need federation-based discovery?Yes / No
What security profile?FAPI 2.0? Custom? Both?
Step 4

Assess security and compliance

Certifications

ISO 27001SOC 2 Type IIPCI DSS 4.0FAPI 2.0Cyber Essentials

Infrastructure Security

  • FIPS 140-2 Level 3 HSMs
  • Air-gapped root CA
  • mTLS everywhere

Operational Resilience

  • 99.99% SLA
  • <1 min RPO
  • Multi-region active-active
Full security documentation
Step 6

Engage

Choose the engagement path that fits your evaluation stage.

Product walkthrough

See Connect in action with your use case

Strategic briefing

For regulators, central banks, and senior stakeholders

Technical deep-dive

Architecture session with our federation engineers

Developer evaluation

Sandbox access and API documentation

Build Once vs Keep Rebuilding

The real question: keep rebuilding, or build the foundations once?

Your API gateway routes traffic. Your IAM authenticates users. Neither manages trust between organisations, issues certificates, tests conformance, or governs participant lifecycle. That's a different discipline — and it's a permanent commitment, not a project.

The build cost

Pros

Directory. PKI. Registration authority. Onboarding. Conformance testing. Metadata publication. Shared signals. Budget 18–24 months if you’re good. Staff a team of 6–10 specialists.

This is the part everyone plans for. This is the easy part.

The operating cost

Pros

HSM key ceremonies every quarter. Certificate rotation across hundreds of participants. Conformance profiles updated every time a standard evolves. OCSP responders that must never go down. Shared signals that must propagate in real-time. A 24/7 on-call team for infrastructure your entire ecosystem depends on.

Cons

By Year 3, you’ll have expired certificates in production and a team maintaining infrastructure instead of building product.

This is the part nobody plans for — and it never ends.

The opportunity cost

Pros

Every engineer maintaining your trust infrastructure is an engineer not building your product. Every security review of your CA is a review not spent on your application. Every conformance update is a sprint not spent on customer value.

This cost compounds every quarter and never stops.

Raidiam has operated trust infrastructure for a decade — including Brazil's open finance ecosystem: 159 banks, 100 billion+ API calls, zero security incidents. We turn your three costs into one line item and give you back the team. Start at year 10.

Build Once. Expand Everywhere.

Where will your ecosystem take you?

Whether you're a regulator building a national digital economy, an enterprise platformising across brands and clouds, or a bank that wants to stop rebuilding trust for every new use case — there's a next step.

See It in Action

See how one investment in Raidiam Connect covers your first use case — and the next hundred

Request a Briefing

For regulators and central banks — how to build the foundations for an expandable digital economy

See the Proof

Brazil started with 2 data-sharing scopes. Today it has hundreds — all on the same infrastructure