Personal keys, expensed subscriptions, and unsanctioned tools didn't appear because people are reckless; they appeared because the sanctioned path was slower. Actualyze replaces them with a governed path teams actually prefer, and puts every identity on your domain under one policy.
Employees bring their own models the moment they prove useful; through personal accounts, raw API keys, and tools nobody vetted.
Work flows through personal ChatGPT and Claude accounts and API keys on random credit cards. Security never sees a single request.
Prompts carry customer data and source code into tools with no policy, no redaction, and no record of what left.
Blocking the tools people rely on doesn't stop usage. People route around the ban, and you lose what visibility you had.
People use unsanctioned AI because it makes them faster. Banning doesn't remove the demand; it removes your visibility into it.
The exposure compounds quietly: every ungoverned prompt is data you can't account for, from an identity you don't control, on a bill you can't see.
The fix isn't a bigger blocklist. It's a sanctioned path that is genuinely better, faster to adopt, with more models to use, plus governance over the identities and licenses that shadow usage runs on.
Actualyze eliminates shadow AI on three fronts: a sanctioned path teams prefer, visibility into the usage you couldn't see, and control over every identity in your domain.
One OpenAI-compatible endpoint in front of a curated catalog of models, more than any personal account offers. Teams self-serve access and budgets instead of waiting on tickets, so the governed route is also the fastest one.
Every call through the platform is metered in one ledger, attributed to the team and agent that drove it. Usage that isn't on the governed path stops being invisible. It stands out.
Claim your email domain with DNS verification, then govern every identity on it. Enforce SSO with a monitored rollout and grace period, see who's still authenticating outside policy, and deactivate leavers via SCIM.
Shadow AI survives on friction. Each piece of the control plane takes away one of the reasons people route around IT.
Give your teams a governed path that's faster than the workaround, then see, secure, and govern what you couldn't before.
