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AGENTNURO INTELLIGENCE · SHADOW AI DISCOVERY

Find every unsanctioned AI tool in use

Every AI tool your organization already runs, the ones IT approved and the ones running under the radar, surfaced from signals you already have. No agents to install, no proxy, no code change.

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ToolStatusUsersSpend / mo
GPChatGPT TeamSanctioned128$2,340
CoGitHub CopilotSanctioned64$960
NoNotion AISanctioned210$1,050
PePerplexity ProUnsanctioned9$180
MiMidjourneyUnsanctioned4$96

What is unsanctioned AI (shadow AI)?

Unsanctioned AI is any AI tool, agent, or model employees use without IT approval, commonly called shadow AI. AgentNuro surfaces it from provider, billing, and identity signals, so AI use that leaves a trace in your systems doesn't stay hidden.

Sanctioned AI
Owner
Budget line
Data agreement
Unsanctioned AI
No owner
No budget line
No data agreement

Sanctioned tools carry an owner, a budget line, and a data agreement. Unsanctioned tools carry none of that, which is exactly where the risk sits.

How do you discover shadow AI?

Discovery runs off signals your organization already generates, not new instrumentation.

  • Billing and expense signals: card charges and reimbursement requests to AI vendors nobody provisioned.
  • Identity signals: OAuth grants and SSO app catalog entries for tools IT never rolled out.
  • Network signals: traffic to AI provider domains from managed devices.
  • Provider usage signals: seats and API keys active outside the approved account list.
BillingIdentityNetworkProvider APIs
Discovery Engine
Perplexity ProUnsanctioned
MidjourneyUnsanctioned

Why is unsanctioned AI a risk?

An AI tool nobody can see is an AI tool nobody can govern.

Data exposure Company data pasted into tools with no data processing agreement in place.
No audit trail No record of what left the building, or when.
Uncontrolled spend Personal cards and team budgets paying for the same tool five different ways.
Compliance exposure No way to prove what AI touched regulated data, when it matters most.

Frequently asked questions

Often, yes, when the use leaves a trace in company systems. A personal subscription shows up when it's expensed or paid with a company card. Use on personal devices and personal cards leaves no trace, so no tool can see it.

No. AgentNuro reads data from systems you already run: your identity provider, expense and card data, AI provider admin APIs, [and your web gateway or DNS logs]. Nothing is installed on laptops or phones, and nothing changes for employees.

Four kinds: identity (SSO app catalogs and OAuth grants in Okta, Microsoft Entra ID and Google Workspace), billing (card and expense data, AI provider admin APIs, Cloud and AI Marketplaces, and the SaaS apps you license, to find AI features switched on inside them, such as Microsoft 365 Copilot.

Most teams see their first shadow AI inventory within 24 hours of connecting their identity provider and expense data. The inventory keeps updating as new tools appear.

No. Discovery uses metadata: which tool was used, by whom, how often, and what it cost. [AgentNuro never collects prompts, responses or files.] See the Trust Center for how your data is handled.

You decide per tool. Sanction it by assigning an owner, a budget line and a data agreement. Move its users to an approved tool that already does the job. Or restrict it with a policy in AgentNuro Control [and route an ITSM ticket to IT].

No, it works alongside them. CASB and DLP tools watch network traffic and block risky data transfers in real time. AgentNuro adds what they don't: spend from expense and card data, owners from your identity provider, and one inventory of every AI tool with its users and cost.

Yes, for agents deployed on the major agent platforms. AgentNuro lists every agent deployed on Google Gemini Enterprise, AWS Bedrock, Azure AI Foundry, Microsoft Power Platform including ones IT never registered.

See every unsanctioned AI tool in your organization.