Use case: Shadow AI detection

See and control shadow AI

Shadow AI is any AI tool or agent in use across an institution that no one approved and no one can see. Verillian detects it on the device without setup or per-tool configuration. Sanctioned or not, every captured interaction is governed and sealed into the chain under one policy the moment the tool or agent acts. Real-time control, on the device.

CoverageAny HTTPS tool or agent. If it reaches a provider, Verillian governs it. No plugin, no gateway.
SetupNone, per tool. The sentinel governs tools it has never seen before.
No policyFail closed. Unaudited AI is a stop condition, not a blind spot.

Where the control sits

Every request takes the same path. The decision happens on the device, before anything crosses the boundary.

01 origin
AI tool or agent
Any app, agent, or browser tab on the endpoint, sanctioned or not, forms an outbound request to a provider.
02 on device
Verillian sentinel
Evaluates each request against your policy on the device, before it reaches the provider, and decides what the tool or agent may do.
ALLOWREDACTBLOCK
03 boundary
Provider
Receives only what policy permits. A blocked request never leaves the device.
04 after
Signed chain
Every captured interaction is Ed25519-signed and hash-chained, encrypted under keys only you hold.

data flow: device to boundary to record

What happens to every request?

Once a tool or agent is under policy, every request it makes resolves to one of three decisions: ALLOW, REDACT, or BLOCK. Each decision is signed into the chain as it is made, so enforcement and evidence arrive together.

ALLOW

Cleared by your policy and forwarded to the provider. Signed into the chain.

REDACT

Sensitive data detected in the request is masked or removed before the prompt is forwarded.

BLOCK

Denied by your policy. Never forwarded, and the attempt is sealed in the chain.

Around the decision sit the controls that make it yours: tool-call analytics to build policy from real usage, and an org-wide stop that halts all AI traffic across the fleet at once.

What unsanctioned AI tools are running?

Verillian surfaces unsanctioned AI tools and providers in use across the fleet. The visibility gap most institutions cannot see today becomes governed activity under one policy. Filter by time range to see what has appeared.

shadow AI, representative view

How shadow AI detection works

Verillian surfaces the AI already in use and brings it under one policy, across every endpoint.

No configuration
The sentinel detects shadow AI with no per-tool setup: any AI tool or agent that reaches a provider over HTTPS is governed.
Tool-call analytics
See what is used, how often, and by whom. Build policy directly from observed patterns.
Org-wide stop
An emergency control that halts all AI traffic across the institution at once, on demand.
Fail-closed
A sentinel with no valid policy blocks all AI traffic. Unaudited AI is not a degraded mode, it is a stop condition.

You can't govern what you can't see.

Verillian surfaces the AI tools and agents reaching a provider over HTTPS across the fleet, including the ones nobody approved, and governs them the moment they act. We work with our first institutions on their own endpoints, against their own policies. Thirty minutes shows more than a slide deck ever will.