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Shadow AI

Shadow AI gives you visibility into the AI tools your workforce actually uses — sanctioned or not — across browsers, desktops, and the terminal, so you can govern AI usage instead of guessing at it.

What it does

  • Discover usage of AI tools (ChatGPT, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Gemini, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and many more) via the browser extension, desktop agent, and coding-agent telemetry.
  • Attribute activity to people — see who is using which tools, how often, and through which surface (web, desktop app, CLI).
  • Enrich identities from your directory (Okta / Microsoft Entra ID) so usage can be sliced by department, job title, and manager.
  • Govern — sanction, tolerate, or forbid tools, classify them by risk, and review what your workforce is adopting.

Privacy by default. Shadow AI captures usage metadata only — apps, sessions, counts, models, file metadata, and device health. Prompt and response content is never read or stored. See Data & Privacy.

How it works

Shadow AI collects signals from lightweight clients you deploy to your fleet, plus optional telemetry from coding agents. Everything is attributed to a user and device, classified against an AI-tool registry, and surfaced in the dashboard.

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Get started

Deploy clients

Roll out the browser extension and/or desktop agent to your fleet, and optionally wire up coding-agent telemetry. See Quickstart and Deploying Agents & Extensions.

Enrich identities (optional)

Connect Okta or Entra ID so usage can be sliced by department, title, and manager. See Directory Integration.

Review & govern

Read the dashboard, then sanction, tolerate, or forbid tools by policy. See Understanding the Dashboard and AI Tools, Registry & Policy.

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