Yes but this isn't unusual. Shadow AI means company data is going into tools nobody approved, with no record of what was shared. The fix isn't a ban; it's a sanctioned path that's secure.

With an AI readiness assessment and an acceptable use policy, before any tool gets deployed. We follow the NIST AI Risk Management Framework to take organizations from little or no governance to using AI securely, through a 90-day security-first plan.

Four things, consistently: data leaking into public tools, identity sprawl as staff sign up for services independently, compliance obligations quietly broken, and no audit trail when someone asks what happened. Each is manageable — but only before rollout, not after.

Yes. It's the document that makes everything else enforceable, and it's increasingly what regulators, insurers and enterprise clients ask to see. We write it with you so it reflects what your business actually does, rather than a template nobody follows.

Microsoft Copilot, Claude ChatGPT and more. We also deploy automation built around your existing systems. We're deliberately not tied to one vendor because the right tool depends on where your data already lives and what you're trying to accomplish.