For Censys, integrations are critical. Security teams need seamless connectivity to bridge the platform’s comprehensive threat data with their existing tools and workflows. Without it, that data remains siloed off, customers face manual workarounds, and Censys’ impact is limited.
For Senior Product Manager Marcin Kranz, solving this connectivity crisis dominated his day-to-day life. Customer demand for integrations was strong and growing, but delivering them was anything but simple.
Each new integration ate heavily into the team’s bandwidth. "We spent a lot of time manually mapping data over using API documentation, which wasn’t always actually available," Marcin explains.
But it wasn’t just combing through docs. Most integrations required significant coding effort, creating a dependency on engineering resources that limited both who could build and how quickly the team could scale.
Plus, custom connections required frequent back-and-forth with partners to ensure everything worked as planned—a process that often took weeks for each integration. As a result, Censys was only delivering one or two integrations per quarter. Meanwhile, the backlog kept growing. Customer requests ranged from 10 to 15, sometimes reaching 20 per quarter.
The writing was on the wall: they needed a different approach. One that could streamline the integration process, tackle their mounting backlog, and match customer demand—without stretching the team thin.
