The portierX we are building

The access someone’s job needs

Access is handed out door by door and group by group, while people move through spaces.

People get their group’s access, not the access their job needs.

How access drifts

Access is rarely given out once. It is given at the door, by the group, by whoever is there when someone needs to get in.

Every one of those decisions is reasonable on its own.

Nobody owns what they add up to, and what they add up to is the access nobody meant to leave open.

Drift is what happens when nothing sets the direction.

A person sits in the middle of a ring of six doors their group opens. Only two doors carry a tick, the two their job needs.

Where portierX is going

portierX is being built to grant the space someone needs, for as long as they need it.

A person walking away, the icon for access that outlives someone’s last day

When someone
leaves

Their cards will be blocked and their keys followed up until they come back.

Built so far

Open a person and see every space and door they can open, including access still held on a key past its return date. Record each key as it comes back.

A contractor, the icon for access that ends with the work

Contractors and
visitors

Each contractor will have a sponsor and an end date, and their access will end with the work.

A key cabinet, the icon for keys held across depots and issuing desks

Keys across
your sites

Every key and copy will be tracked across depots, key safes and issuing desks, against the person who holds it.

Built so far

Issue a key or a card to a person, record the return, and give each one a due date.

A key with a question mark, the icon for a key reported missing

When a key
goes missing

Everyone who has to act will be told, and the follow-up tracked until it is done.

A room seen from above, the icon for a protected server or plant room

Protected
rooms

For server rooms and plant rooms, you will see every key and card that opens the room, master keys included. Access to them will need approval from whoever is responsible for the room.

A document with recorded lines, the icon for the change record

Reviews and
audits

Owners will confirm who still needs each key and card, and the record will run from request to removal.

Built so far

Every change is recorded, and anyone with the export permission can filter the record and export it to CSV or Excel.

portierX: the spaces and doors one person can open, from an invented estate
Built so far, the spaces and doors one person can open.
portierX: one key's history from issue to return, from an invented estate
Built so far, a key from issue to return.

portier calls this physical access management, for estates running more than one access system plus keys.

What we are not building

portier is not a monitoring product. It keeps the record of who holds which key and what that key opens.

  • No hardware. portierX does not replace the locks, cylinders and readers you already have.
  • No cameras. What a door recorded is not what portierX is for.
  • No visitor sign-in desk.

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portierX is invite-only ahead of launch.

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