Use cases / Shadow AI
Find the AI nobody registered.Bring it under control.
Uncover AI use, cloud agents and embedded assistants across your existing stack. Bring the right ones under your policies—and control the actions that matter.
- Starts read-only
- Works with the tools you already run
- You choose when to enforce
From finding to governed action
Illustrative walkthrough · sample dataFINDING · DEMO-1041
Needs reviewUsage outside your review process.
Identity and egress records show AI-provider usage with no matching product in your governed model inventory.
Start with the finding. Choose the next step under your own review process.
Source-backed evidence.
Illustrative source records, not live tenant data.
Put the usage into review.
The team has a source-backed finding to investigate. The app decision remains pending.
FINDING · DEMO-1042
Needs reviewFound. Not yet governed.
A support-refund agent is present in the AWS account, with no matching entry in the governed agent inventory.
Start with the finding. Choose the next step under your own review process.
Source-backed evidence.
Illustrative source records, not live tenant data.
Review first. Enforce by choice.
After governance is enabled, the refund is held before dispatch. The amount exceeds the approved policy threshold.
FINDING · DEMO-1043
Needs reviewAn enabled flow needs review.
A ServiceNow AI-bearing flow is enabled. Your team has not yet brought this production-change workflow into governance.
Start with the finding. Choose the next step under your own review process.
Source-backed evidence.
Illustrative source records, not live tenant data.
Put production changes under policy.
On the governed action path, a production write without an approved change is denied before dispatch.
FINDING · DEMO-1044
Needs reviewReview the tool before approval.
An MCP manifest declares broad database-write capability. Its provenance and declared capabilities need review.
Start with the finding. Choose the next step under your own review process.
Source-backed evidence.
Illustrative source records, not live tenant data.
Set a bar for approved tools.
The catalog entry is blocked in review. A lower-privilege version can be submitted for assessment.
Your stack supplies the signals. Your policy decides what happens next. Follow the finding through a deliberate review to the decision that matters.
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In the product
See the product. Follow the evidence.
A 41-second recording from a demo tenant: source-backed findings, identity context, cloud agent inventory and MCP catalog review, in the console.
Discovery, step by step
Four screens from a recorded demo tenant.
Four shapes
Four shapes of shadow AI. One path into governance.
Shadow AI is bigger than a chatbot tab. It includes unreviewed data sharing, cloud agents, embedded assistants and developer-added tools—with risks ranging from exposed information to changes in a system of record.
Apps people adopted
An OAuth grant to a new AI app, web egress to a known AI destination, a local model CLI on a laptop.
Read from Okta, Entra ID, Google Workspace, Zscaler, Netskope, Palo Alto, CrowdStrike
Cloud resources nobody registered
Agents, AI accounts and serving endpoints in cloud accounts that no governance covers.
Read from AWS Bedrock, Azure AI and Foundry, Google Vertex AI, Databricks
Agents a business admin switched on
Bots, topics and AI-bearing workflows enabled inside enterprise SaaS and not yet brought into the AI review process.
Read from Salesforce, ServiceNow, Copilot Studio, M365, Workday, SAP AI Core, Atlassian, Slack, Zendesk, HubSpot, n8n
Tools and runtimes developers add
Review MCP provenance and declared capabilities. Bring agent-framework runtimes into the governed inventory.
MCP catalogs and manifests; LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI and n8n runtime registration
From finding to control
Knowing it exists is not the same as governing it.
A finding should lead somewhere. GovernorAI connects discovery to independent execution governance, so a new finding becomes a decision instead of another orphaned alert.
Keep your stack. Add shared context.
Your tools already see the signals. GovernorAI reads them, correlates them with identity, cloud and SaaS inventories, and compares the result with your own registry. The source evidence stays attached to every finding.
Existing tools, reviewable findings
Your policy decides what happens next.
Take a reviewed agent into governed execution under your rules: allow, deny or hold for approval on model calls, MCP tools and business actions. Author natively, or keep your existing OPA/Rego process and repository.
Your policy, controlled execution
Show the decision, not just the detection.
Each enforced action is recorded with the policy decision and its reason. Security and compliance see what was decided and why, from the source finding to the held refund.
Policy decision, recorded
Your existing stack
Start with the stack you already run.
Bring existing source signals and platform inventories into one reviewable picture. Keep your security tools, identity provider and LLM gateway in place.
SIEM & log feeds
Splunk · Microsoft Sentinel · Datadog · existing log pipelines
Network & endpoint
Zscaler · Netskope · Palo Alto Networks · CrowdStrike
Identity & SaaS audit
Okta · Microsoft Entra ID · Google Workspace · Microsoft 365
LLM gateways
LiteLLM · Portkey
Read gateway telemetry without replacing the gateway.
Direct platform connections
AWS Bedrock · Microsoft Azure · Google Vertex AI · Databricks · Salesforce · ServiceNow
A coverage view that points to the next step.
See which sources are reporting, which need attention and which are ready to connect.
Explore Discovery integrations- Identity feed
- Reporting
- Endpoint feed
- Needs attention
- Gateway feed
- Ready to connect
Start read-only. Connect one source, review its findings and decide which workflow to govern next.
Reasons and inventory
Every finding carries the reason that produced it.
Inspect the machine-readable reason, observing sources and event references behind a finding. Give security and compliance a reviewable trail—not just an unexplained score.
Matched against your own registry, not a vendor allow-list.
A known AI provider with no governance coverage found. This is the shadow-AI row.
AI-tagged signal to a destination that matched no product. Queued for triage, never asserted as shadow.
A timing-based signal for review, kept separate from destination classification. Cadence alone is not proof that an activity is an AI agent.
Classification integrity, by design. If the registry cannot be read, GovernorAI withholds classification rather than inventing a shadow finding. Missing context does not become a confident label.
An inventory you can hand to an auditor.
Export an AI bill of materials as JSON or PDF. A content hash fingerprints the snapshot so it can be checked against a retained reference.
AI inventory snapshot
- Inventory
- Registered agents and models
- Governance
- Policy and review context
- Export
- JSON or PDF
- Integrity
- Content-hashed snapshot
For governed actions, inspect the separate decision record.
Explore decision evidenceQuestions
A few practical questions.
Is shadow AI just employees using chatbots?
We already run Zscaler, Netskope or a SIEM. Why add GovernorAI?
Does discovery intercept traffic or automatically block AI?
Can we keep our OPA/Rego policies?
Can we begin with one source and one workflow?
Start read-only
Find your first gap. Prove the path to control.
Bring one source you already run and one agent workflow that matters. We scope a read-only start and agree what a six-week evaluation should prove.
What the evaluation works toward
- A reviewable AI inventorySource evidence and a prioritised worklist of governance gaps.
- One governed workflowYour policy, exercised against the actions that matter.
- Evidence your team can inspectMeasured control outcomes and the decision records behind them.