Introducing Descope Family Accounts: Relational Identity for Consumer Apps

Descope has introduced Family Accounts, a relational identity feature designed for consumer applications that need to manage relationships among guardians, dependents, and households without relying on shared credentials or custom middleware. The platform supports credential-free dependent profiles, multiple independent guardians with separately auditable actions, and family-scoped roles and attributes that allow individuals to hold different permissions across multiple families. Available through the Descope console and Management APIs, the feature is intended for uses such as guardian access in healthcare, custodial fintech accounts, and household media plans, where users may require different levels of access or belong to multiple households. Family Accounts is the first part of Descope’s broader relational identity roadmap, which plans to add dual approval workflows, profile context switching, and age-based permission transitions.

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