How does Olakai discover and control shadow AI usage across an enterprise?
Olakai handles Shadow AI in three steps: discover, govern, report. Discovery is automatic and continuous, scanning browsers, APIs and integrations to find AI tools as employees adopt them. Every detected tool is risk-scored and placed under an acceptable-use policy as approved, monitored or blocked. The order matters: Olakai starts with visibility, not with blocking.
Automatic discovery and risk scoring
Olakai automatically discovers every AI tool in use across your organization, assesses risk in real time, and enforces governance policies without blocking the innovation your teams need. Auto-detection continuously scans for unauthorized AI tools across browsers, APIs and integrations, discovering new AI services as employees adopt them, with no manual inventory required. Every detected AI tool is risk-scored, and acceptable-use policies classify tools as approved, monitored or blocked.
Source: Shadow AI
Discover, govern, report
Olakai's Shadow AI capability is built around three steps: discover, govern and report. Discovery starts with a lightweight browser extension that identifies over 600 AI tools the moment an employee starts using one. It does not require SSO integration and it does not require expense report reconciliation, which is why it catches the tools that would never show up in either. Within days you have a complete inventory of every AI tool your organization is actually using, mapped to departments, users and usage patterns.
Source: The Shadow AI Opportunity
Visibility before blocking
Olakai takes a visibility-first approach to Shadow AI detection and control. Rather than starting with blocking, it starts with discovery: what AI tools are actually being used, who is using them, what data is flowing through them, and what outcomes they are producing.
That visibility layer creates the foundation for informed governance. Once you understand the full picture of AI usage, you can make intelligent decisions about what to allow, what to restrict, and what to redirect to approved alternatives.
Source: Shadow AI: The Enterprise Risk Hiding in Plain Sight
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