See · Shadow AI

Bring the AI nobody approved into the light.

Personal ChatGPT accounts, coding agents on laptops, AI apps approved with one click. Kapālins finds them from the directory, the device and the cloud, and puts each in front of a person to decide.

How it is found

Six places shadow AI shows itself.

No single source sees all of it. A grant shows the app but not the laptop; the laptop shows the tool but not the cloud deployment. Each source below is read on its own schedule and joined into one inventory.

Identity grantsAI apps someone connected

OAuth grants in Microsoft Entra ID and Okta are matched against a catalogue of 31 AI apps, with the permissions each was granted: mail, files, sites, calendar, offline access.

Microsoft Entra IDOkta
Device sensorAI on people’s machines

The Windows and macOS sensor and the browser extension recognise 69 AI tools and 14 AI web domains: chat sites, coding agents, local models, MCP servers and skills on disk.

ChatGPTClaude CodeCursorOllama
Azure inventoryShadow deployments

Azure OpenAI deployments in your subscriptions are compared with the ones the gateway has actually seen. Anything inventoried but never routed through Kapālins is listed as ungoverned.

Azure OpenAI
AWS CloudTrailBedrock use, from the log

Bedrock events from CloudTrail show which identity invoked which model and when, including use that never went near the gateway.

Amazon BedrockAWS CloudTrail
Gateway trafficProviders not in the inventory

AI providers called through the gateway in the last 30 days are compared with your declared inventory, and the difference is listed.

Copilot seatsWho actually uses Copilot

Microsoft 365 Copilot usage per person shows which assigned seats are used and which sit idle, beside the audit log of what Copilot did.

Microsoft 365 Copilot
What you see

What happened to every AI interaction, and who decides next.

The top bar answers the first question: of every AI interaction the platform saw, how many a control point could stop, how many were coached, how many were only recorded. Below it, every tool as a card, ranked worst first. Click anything to open it.

Demo estate. The layout and every state mirror the platform’s Shadow AI page.

What you do

Every finding goes to a person to decide.

Discovery is only useful if something happens next. The decision queue puts the findings that most need a person at the top, with the same actions available wherever a finding is shown.

ApproveAccept it into the inventory

An AI site people are using on an enterprise plan becomes part of the governed inventory, and stops appearing as shadow.

ClassifyAsk for an unknown tool to be assessed

A tool nobody recognises is sent for classification. Once it has a tier, every device that reports it reads the same.

BlockRefuse it on the device

Device blocks and device policies are pushed to the sensor. Prompts, files, local MCP tools and egress are gated under the same policy as the gateway.

Bring under policyRoute it through the gateway

Point an application, or an Azure deployment, at the gateway with its own key, so Policy Shield inspects every call.

Offer an alternativeThe Governed AI Workspace

Chat, skills and assistants in Teams, Office and Google Workspace, so the personal account stops being the easy option.

ReportSend it to the SOC

Findings and blocks are pushed to your SIEM or ITSM, so shadow AI is handled the way other risks are.

How the device gates work

Request a briefing

Find out what AI your people already use.

Connect your identity provider and a few devices, and we will walk through what they find with you.

FAQ

Questions buyers ask.

Does identity-grant discovery block anything?

No. Matching an OAuth grant against the AI app catalogue only makes the app visible in the inventory, with the permissions it was granted. Blocking happens on the device or at the gateway.

What does the device sensor see?

AI web tabs, installed programs, browser extensions, local configuration files, MCP servers and Claude Skills on Windows and macOS machines, plus whether an AI account is enterprise, personal or not yet classified. Attachments are judged on the device; files are not sent to Kapālins.

What happens to a tool nobody recognises?

It is listed as unclassified. An administrator can ask for it to be classified, and once classified it moves into the enterprise or personal tier on every device that reports it.

Can we block a shadow AI tool?

Yes, from Growth up, or on Foundation with the AI gateway added. Device blocks and device policies are pushed to the sensor, and the gateway refuses calls that break policy. Every block is logged against the rule that made it.