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> **Original source:** https://docs.strata.io/introduction/overview

Maverics is Strata Identity’s orchestration platform for modern, legacy, and AI identity. The **Orchestrator** — a lightweight identity abstraction layer — routes authentication and authorization between your applications and any identity provider, while the **Maverics Console** provides a visual interface for managing connectors, policies, and configurations.

Become an Identity Hero with Maverics

### Why Maverics

-   **Extend identity to AI** — Connect enterprise identity to MCP servers and AI-powered applications through the AI Identity Gateway without rebuilding your identity infrastructure from scratch.
-   **Vendor independence** — Work with any identity provider, any protocol. Maverics translates bidirectionally between SAML, OIDC, LDAP, and header-based auth so you’re never locked into a single vendor’s ecosystem.
-   **Identity Continuity** — Maverics monitors IdP health and automatically fails over to a backup when an outage is detected. Multi-tier resilience options range from basic failover to [tactical edge deployments](https://docs.strata.io/guides/identity-continuity/reducing-spofs) that operate autonomously when cloud connectivity is severed.
-   **Modernize apps without code changes** — Add SSO, MFA, and authorization policies to applications that don’t natively support them. Maverics acts as an identity-aware reverse proxy so applications need zero modification.
-   **Data stays in your environment** — Maverics is self-hosted inside your infrastructure. Authentication traffic — tokens, credentials, user attributes — never leaves your environment. Only configuration flows through the cloud.
-   **Zero-downtime migration** — Migrate between identity providers incrementally. Maverics routes authentication between old and new providers simultaneously so you can move users at your own pace with no rip-and-replace.
-   **Programmable at every layer** — [Service extensions](https://docs.strata.io/reference/orchestrator/service-extensions) give you 30+ hook points across the authentication and authorization lifecycle with an embedded Go runtime. Customize request handling, build custom API endpoints, or integrate with any external system.

## What You Can Do

Maverics handles the identity complexity so you can focus on your applications.

## Who Is Maverics For

## Security & Compliance

## Explore the Docs

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