What is Patronum?
Patronum is a Google Workspace management platform aimed at IT teams. It automates onboarding and offboarding, manages email signatures centrally, controls Drive sharing, and supports Google Workspace data compliance. Pricing is published at 8 dollars per user per year for the base plan and 16 dollars per user per year for the plus tier, with separate education and non profit pricing.
Why Patronum works
Most Workspace admin work is manual clicking through user roles, signature templates, and Drive sharing audits. Patronum collapses those tasks into policy driven automation, so an IT lead spends time on actual security work instead of resetting signatures or chasing files that should have been unshared months ago.
Patronum features
- Automated onboarding and offboarding. User lifecycle steps like license provisioning and data revocation run on policies rather than checklists in a runbook.
- Email signature management. Signatures are deployed centrally from templates, so branding stays consistent across the org without each employee maintaining their own.
- File governance and automated unsharing. Drive access is unshared based on time, inactivity, or policy, reducing the slow drift of overshared files.
- Google contact sharing. Contact lists can be shared across teams without managing CSV imports per user.
- High frequency backups. Backups are offered for email, calendar, contacts, files, and shared drives at higher frequency than the native Workspace tooling.
- IDaaS integrations. Compatibility with Okta, OneLogin, and PingIdentity slots Patronum into existing identity stacks.
Who Patronum is for
- IT administrators at mid size companies running Google Workspace who want onboarding and offboarding to run on policy rather than tickets.
- Compliance teams in regulated industries needing automated unsharing of Drive files to keep external access under control.
- Marketing leads enforcing consistent email signature branding across hundreds of employees.
- Schools and universities managing thousands of student accounts that need centralized lifecycle automation.
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