Graph-Based User Journeys for Custom Login Flows

Design Custom Login Flows Without Rewrites

Your authentication flows should match your product, not the other way around. With IdentityPlane, you design custom login and registration experiences visually, then ship them without constant code changes or redeploys.

IdentityPlane gives your team a graph-based engine for CIAM, so you can define how users authenticate as a set of nodes and edges instead of scattered conditionals in application code. You keep full control over security and UX while reducing friction for your users and your developers

Build Smarter, Adaptive User Journeys

Traditional CIAM tools make it hard to evolve your login flows once they are in production. IdentityPlane uses a graph engine so you can express authentication logic as data. Risk checks, device signals, business rules, and user attributes can all influence what happens next in the flow, without rewriting the entire stack.

Security and UX teams can collaborate on the same visual model, quickly test changes, and adapt flows as requirements shift. You can add new authentication methods, apply extra verification to specific user segments, or change recovery steps without overhauling your application.

• Adjust steps in real time based on risk, context, or business rules.

• Mix standards-based login (OIDC, OID4VP) with social identity providers.

• Add modern methods like passkeys, YubiKeys, passwordless, and magic links.

• Keep your existing databases and session management systems in place.

Control Every Step of the Authentication Graph

With IdentityPlane, each step in your user flow is a node in a graph. Nodes can represent actions like collecting credentials, validating a passkey, checking a device, or applying a policy. Edges describe how users move between nodes based on conditions you define.

Authentication graphs in GoAM are stored as YAML, so your entire flow configuration can be version controlled, reviewed, and rolled back like application code. This makes it straightforward to track changes across environments, run code reviews on authentication logic, and keep audit trails for compliance.

This lets you create custom login experiences for different user groups or applications while keeping a consistent security baseline. You can branch on attributes or context, then converge again into shared logic, so your flows stay clear and maintainable even as they become more sophisticated.

How Graph-Based Journeys Work in IdentityPlane

You start by modeling your ideal flow visually as a graph. Each node is configured with the rule or action it should perform, from a simple password check to a step-up challenge based on risk. Conditions on the edges decide what the next node is, so the user path adjusts automatically.

Under the hood, IdentityPlane executes this graph at runtime. When signals or requirements change, you update the graph rather than rewriting application code. Because the engine is cloud-native and open source at its core, your team can inspect, extend, and integrate it with your existing infrastructure using Go and standard protocols.

Why Teams Choose IdentityPlane for Custom Login

IdentityPlane is built for teams that want transparency and control over their authentication, without sacrificing speed of iteration. The graph-based model keeps your authentication logic explicit and reviewable, which supports security reviews and long-term maintainability.

By separating your custom login flows from application code, you reduce coupling, cut down on auth-related deployments, and make it easier for security and product teams to collaborate. With support for modern authentication standards and open-source availability, IdentityPlane fits into a wide range of enterprise environments while keeping your identity stack under your control.

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See How Graph-Based Journeys Elevate Your Authentication

Explore how IdentityPlane can help you design a flexible custom login that matches every step of your users journeys and can be fully version controlled as YAML-based graphs in GoAM. If you are ready to align authentication with your product experience, contact us to walk through your use cases and implementation options.