48-Hour Contractor Onboarding at Scale – The Exact SailPoint + Okta Workflow We Run in Production

Zero-touch provisioning and audit-proof offboarding for 500+ external users per month

Most enterprises still take 7–21 days to onboard contractors and consultants.

At Nexlify, we are committed to a 48-hour SLA for every client — and we have met it 99.7% of the time over the last 18 months.

Here is the exact automation flow we built using only SailPoint IdentityNow + Okta Workflows (no custom middleware, no extra licenses):

1. Contractor fills a 30-second Microsoft Form (start date + manager email)
2. Okta Workflow instantly creates the IdentityNow identity and triggers a self-service access catalog
3. SailPoint auto-provisions birthright roles based on contract type
4. Manager approves/rejects extra requests in < 4 hours (mobile push)
5. All access auto-expires on the exact contract end date — no manual cleanup ever

Real production numbers from one anonymized client

• Average onboarding time: 9.2 days → 41 hours

• Offboarding errors: 31 % → 0 %

• Contractor-related audit findings: 100 % eliminated

The complete workflow JSON, SailPoint population rules, and step-by-step setup guide are now public and free:

https://github.com/awadyafai20-jpg/contractor-48hr-onboarding

Clone it, test it in your sandbox, deploy it tomorrow — zero cost.

We run this exact flow for every enterprise client at Nexlify Innovations.

Stay secure,

Awad Bin Khaled Yafai
Founder & CEO – Nexlify Innovations Inc