Govern the AI nobody approved, with no list to maintain.
Unapproved AI tools are easy to find and hard to govern. Every detection product on the market can produce the list. What none of them settle is what happens the next time one of those tools acts.
Policy binds the tools you never approved.
Shadow AI is the AI people adopt without asking. The industry mostly sells ways to find it: dashboards, inventories, a longer list every quarter. Governing it is different. Because Verillian sits on the device, the policy you write binds any tool that reaches a governed provider, including tools you've never heard of. No API key, no per-tool setup, no help from the tool's vendor.
How to govern shadow AI
Six things change when shadow AI is governed instead of hunted.
A tool you'd have discovered next month is already governed today, because policy binds whatever reaches a governed provider, not a list you maintain.
You still get the visibility, which tools, how much, from which devices, but it comes from the endpoint itself rather than from a survey.
Use of an unapproved tool seals into the record beside everything else, so the place risk was highest is held to the same standard as the tools you rolled out.
When you halt AI across the fleet, the tools nobody approved go quiet with everything else, because the stop is enforced on the machine.
The usage in front of you turns into a rule from the same page, so a tool you just found stops being unmanaged the moment you decide.
Coverage comes from the checkpoint on your managed devices. A personal phone outside it is outside the record, which is why the governed path must be the easier one.
One layer governs every AI, authorized or not.
Off, every endpoint reaches every provider in the clear and nothing is recorded. On, each request is decided at the device and sealed to your private server. Toggle the controls to watch it work.
decisions on anthropic-format providers; other named providers captured
Finding shadow AI isn't governing it.
The market answers shadow AI with better and better ways of finding it. Fair enough, but a list is homework: every entry still needs a decision, a chase, or an exception. Verillian doesn't need a tool's permission to govern it, so the finding and the fix stop being separate steps.
For your audit, that's the part that matters: the tool nobody approved leaves the same sealed record as the one you rolled out yourself.