Waveset

Waveset Technologies was a privately held identity-management software vendor based in Austin, Texas, and an early portfolio company of Lightspeed Venture Partners. Its flagship product, Lighthouse, automated user provisioning, password management, and identity brokering to govern access to enterprise systems and data. Sun Microsystems announced its acquisition of Waveset in 2003 and completed it in December 2003; the Lighthouse technology became the basis of Sun Identity Manager and was later carried into Oracle's identity portfolio. Waveset has not existed as an independent company since the acquisition and publishes no active website, developer portal, or API surface today.

Waveset is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Identity Management, Provisioning, Security, and Enterprise Software.

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6.8/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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CompanyIdentity ManagementProvisioningSecurityEnterprise SoftwareAcquired

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Composite quality — 6.8/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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Source (apis.yml)

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  try_now: false
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  label: Unknown
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  method: derived
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name: Waveset
description: Waveset Technologies was a privately held identity-management software vendor based in Austin, Texas, and an
  early portfolio company of Lightspeed Venture Partners. Its flagship product, Lighthouse, automated user provisioning, password
  management, and identity brokering to govern access to enterprise systems and data. Sun Microsystems announced its acquisition
  of Waveset in 2003 and completed it in December 2003; the Lighthouse technology became the basis of Sun Identity Manager
  and was later carried into Oracle's identity portfolio. Waveset has not existed as an independent company since the acquisition
  and publishes no active website, developer portal, or API surface today.
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created: '2026-07-17'
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tags:
- Company
- Identity Management
- Provisioning
- Security
- Enterprise Software
- Acquired
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  email: info@apis.io
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