The same capabilities, applied to how your industry actually deploys software
Industrial, medical, engineering, and regulated environments each bring their own licensing constraints. Here's how AuthGuru fits each one.
Talk to us about your industryControl software ships inside the machine. You won't see it again for years.
Industrial software often runs on equipment-embedded controllers with no reliable network access, sometimes by design or regulation. Whatever licensing decision gets made at ship time has to hold for the equipment's entire operational life — there's no patching it later.
Hardware-based delivery with an onboard clock enforces licensing terms entirely offline, so the equipment doesn't need connectivity to stay correctly licensed for its full lifecycle.
- Why it matters: Offline capability is often a hard RFP requirement in this sector, not a nice-to-have.
- Who it's for: Publishers of equipment-embedded software with no reliable network access on-site.
Your software runs on a validated system. You can't just push an update.
Medical and clinical software often runs on locked, validated configurations with strict network policies and zero tolerance for disruption. A licensing check that assumes it can reach a server whenever it wants simply isn't compatible with how these systems are operated or approved.
Licensing that doesn't depend on connectivity or updates a locked configuration can't accommodate, backed by clear, auditable entitlement records for compliance review.
- Why it matters: No dependency on connectivity or updates a validated configuration can't accommodate.
- Who it's for: Medical device and clinical software publishers operating under strict validation and change-control requirements.
You sell the same instrument at three capability tiers.
When licensing is what actually differentiates product tiers on identical hardware, it isn't a supporting feature — it's core to the business model. And it often has to work on lab equipment with limited or no reliable connectivity.
Tiered licensing models enforced consistently at the hardware level, so capability gating actually holds up rather than being assumed or trusted.
- Why it matters: Tiered pricing actually holds up, enforced consistently rather than assumed.
- Who it's for: Test, measurement, and engineering tool makers selling the same hardware at multiple capability levels.
Network access here isn't restricted. It's not permitted.
Air-gapping is frequently a compliance mandate in government and defense-adjacent sectors, not a connectivity limitation to work around. A licensing platform that "phones home" can disqualify a vendor outright in these environments, not just cause friction.
Fully disconnected-capable licensing — and where procurement requirements go beyond what a standard platform covers, a custom-built system engineered around the requirement.
- Why it matters: Clears procurement requirements cloud-dependent tools can't — offline is a supported path, not a workaround.
- Who it's for: Publishers selling into government, defense, or any procurement process that mandates air-gapped operation.
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