100+
Tools scored
Consumer, paid and enterprise tiers โ each a different risk.
12min
To finish the audit
Three steps. No sign-up to start.
6
Export formats
Zscaler, Netskope, Palo Alto, iBoss, Umbrella, CSV.
24h
Data purge window
Workspace-scan data is deleted automatically within 24 hours.
Shadow AI audit
What AI tools is your team using
without you knowing?
Employees already paste company data into ChatGPT, meeting note-takers and browser extensions IT has never heard of. Our free audit surfaces them, scores the risk, and hands you a plan.
- About 12 minutes. No sign-up to start.
- 100+ tools scored across free, paid & enterprise tiers.
- Get a board-ready summary and a block-list for IT.
How it works
Three steps.
About twelve minutes.
As of April 2026, the Buzzi.ai Shadow AI Audit is a free 12-minute tool that helps business leaders find AI tools their teams use without IT's knowledge, score the risk on each one, and generate a governance scorecard, a data-protection checklist (DPIA), vendor questionnaires and a block-list for IT.
Step one
Discover.
Paste an expense export, search tools by name, pick an industry starter list, or connect Google Workspace to surface apps people already granted access to.
Step two
Survey.
Walk through 12 short governance questions โ one at a time. Or hand over to the AI interviewer if youโd rather talk than click.
Step three
Act.
Get your audit on one page โ per-tool risk, a governance scorecard, priority actions. Sign in to unlock a CEO summary, DPIA, vendor questionnaires and a block-list for IT.
What you get
Everything you need
to walk into a board meeting.
A risk score for every tool
From "everyone uses it safely" to "get it off your network today" โ tiered by how the tool is used (free vs paid vs enterprise) and what data it touches.
A governance scorecard
How mature your controls are today. The fastest way to show your CEO or auditor where the real gaps sit.
A board-ready summary
A short, CEO-friendly summary of what's in use, what's risky, and what to do next. Sign in to generate it.
A block list for IT
Ready-to-import ban list in the formats your IT team already uses (Zscaler, Netskope, Palo Alto, iBoss, Cisco Umbrella and generic CSV).
Real exposure patterns
The quiet things
audits uncover.
Shadow AI rarely looks dramatic. It looks like busy teams pasting the wrong thing into the wrong window, for perfectly reasonable reasons. Hereโs what we surface most.
Financial services
Two analysts pasting earnings data into personal ChatGPT Plus.
Material non-public information sent to an unvetted vendor.
SECReg FDHealthcare
Meeting note-taker sitting silently on patient intake calls.
PHI captured and stored in a third-party tool without a BAA.
HIPAAHHSLegal
Associates running depositions through a browser-based summarizer.
Privileged client communications transmitted to a consumer AI.
ABA 1.6Model RulesSales
Reps pasting contracts into free Claude to "clean up" clauses.
Customer-confidential terms leaving your sanctioned stack.
GDPRNDAs
Who this is for
Four people who walk out with something different.
The report is one page. The part each of them needs is a tap away.
CTO / CIO
A one-page view your exec team can actually read.
Inventory, per-tool risk and a governance scorecard โ without a spreadsheet project or a six-figure vendor.
Head of IT
The block-list to finally close the loop.
Ready-to-import ban lists in the formats your firewall and SWG already speak. Ship in hours, not weeks.
CFO / Finance
What all those $20/mo receipts actually buy you.
Map spend to concrete risk. See which shadow spend justifies a sanctioned contract and which should just stop.
Legal / Compliance
A DPIA-ready paper trail in minutes.
Per-vendor questionnaires, data-protection checklist, and a defensible record of what you reviewed โ and when.
100+ tools ยท Updated weekly
Browse the
AI tool registry.
Per-tool risk profiles for the AI apps people most commonly pull into work. Every entry scores free vs paid vs enterprise separately โ because the same logo can be very different risks.
Browse by category
ConversationalCodingWritingMeetingsResearchImagesBrowser extensions
- High
ChatGPT
Conversational
78 - Medium
Claude
Conversational
44 - Low
Copilot
Coding
28 - Medium
Cursor
Coding
41 - Medium
Grammarly
Writing
44 - High
Otter
Meetings
72 - Low
Gemini
Conversational
22 - Medium
Perplexity
Research
36
+ 92 more tools in the registry
FAQ
Questions teams ask
before starting the audit.
What is shadow AI?
Shadow AI is any AI tool your employees use that IT doesnโt know about โ personal ChatGPT Plus, browser extensions, free meeting note-takers, and workflow agents that handle company data without a formal review.
How long does the audit take?
About 10-12 minutes end to end. Add another 2-5 minutes if you sign in and use the Google Workspace scan.
Is anything from my Workspace scan stored?
No. The Workspace scan uses a read-only admin scope, and everything is purged automatically within 24 hours. See the trust page for details.
What do I get at the end?
A results page with risk scoring per tool, priority actions and peer benchmarks. Sign in with Google to unlock a CEO-ready summary, a data-protection checklist (DPIA), per-vendor questionnaires, and a block list ready for IT (Zscaler, Netskope, Palo Alto, iBoss, Umbrella or CSV).
Do you share or sell my audit data?
No. Audit data is used only to generate your report and anonymised peer benchmarks. We donโt sell or share it with third parties.
How accurate are the risk scores?
Scores are a starting point, not a verdict. They combine vendor-published terms, how the tool is used (free vs paid vs enterprise), the sensitivity of the data you handle, and your own governance maturity. See the methodology page for the full model.
Worried about AI data leaks?
Find your shadow AI
in the next 12 minutes.
No sign-up to start. We only ask for your email at the end โ so we can send the audit report straight to your inbox.
12 min
Average time to first report
Free
No sign-up to start the audit
100+
AI tools scored and updated weekly