The AI on your network is not the AI you approved. Employees adopt new AI tools faster than security can vet them, and proprietary source code, customer PII, and regulated data flow into external endpoints without anyone knowing. That is not a discipline problem. It is an inventory problem.

Shadow AI refers to unauthorized AI tools used within your organization without IT or compliance approval. It is the single largest blind spot in enterprise security, and it is growing faster than any other category of shadow IT.

The tools driving unmanaged spend are the same ones creating unmanaged risk. A living, attributed record of every AI tool, its data, its users, and its usage is the precondition for attributing spend and for evidencing compliance. Kanawai builds that record continuously, so one connection answers the questions the CFO, the security team, and the compliance team are all asking.

Kanawai AI operates at the application layer through scoped, least-privilege authentication (OAuth 2.0, SAML 2.0, OIDC). No endpoint agents and no changes to your cloud environment, whether your AI tools run on Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, or are SaaS applications.

Every governance action produces a cryptographically signed, tamper-evident artifact with a documented chain of custody. The evidence is produced as a by-product of operation, not reconstructed after the fact.