Shadow AI detection for mid-market
Most security stacks were built before ChatGPT. They block known bad sites, log traffic to known SaaS — and have no opinion on the other 300+ AI tools your employees paste sensitive data into. GhostAI shows you which AI your employees actually use — not just what your firewall blocks.
Self-serve. No agents. No sales call. $99/mo flat — on the dashboard in ten minutes.
Every security stack has an opinion about every domain. For AI destinations, those opinions fall into three buckets — and the third one is where the breaches happen.
Your firewall already catches these. ChatGPT (Free), well-known meeting bots, obvious data-exfil destinations.
Your firewall sees them but allows the traffic. You have the data if you search for it. Almost no one does.
The long tail of AI tools your stack has no rule for. Perplexity, Poe, Granola, Claude, 250+ others. Employees reach them freely.
GhostAI cross-references your existing block list (Cloudflare, Umbrella, Palo Alto, or a CSV) against a curated registry of 300+ AI domains and tells you which bucket each one lives in. You fix the third bucket in ten minutes, not a quarter.
Positioning
Simon Willison coined the term Lethal Trifecta: an LLM breach requires three things at once — access to private data, exposure to prompt injection, and the ability to communicate externally. Remove any one leg, break the attack.
GhostAI is the fastest way to remove the third leg for AI-specific destinations. We don't stop MCPs. We don't stop prompt injection. We make sure your firewall has a rule for every AI tool in our registry — so when an employee tries to paste your product roadmap into Granola, the outbound DNS query never resolves.
Why DNS-first wins
Most AI security products sit at the LLM layer — they classify prompts, detect injection, redact PII. They fail some percent of the time. In web application security, “95% accurate” is a failing grade.
GhostAI sits at the DNS layer. A blocked query doesn't resolve. There's no model to fool, no classifier to bypass, no “5% of attacks got through” footnote. Either the domain is on the list or it isn't.
“Plenty of vendors will sell you ‘guardrail’ products that claim to capture 95% of attacks. I am deeply suspicious of these. In web application security 95% is very much a failing grade.”
On the “blocking always fails” argument
Every AI-gateway vendor pitches the same line: blocking doesn't work because users route around it. True — when the block list has rules for the 30 AI tools you've heard of and misses the 250+ you haven't. That's not a strategy problem, it's a coverage problem.
We solve the coverage problem. The 250+ AI domains your firewall has no rule for become a one-line copy-paste into your existing policy — or an auto-updating feed URL if you prefer hands-off. Blocking works when you know what to block.
Rules for ~30 tools. Misses the 250+ long tail. Users route around because your list is incomplete — not because blocking is wrong.
Always one step too late. By the time a DLP classifier flags the prompt, the data is already posted.
Rules for 300+ AI tools, updating weekly. Coverage is the whole game. We close the gap.
How GhostAI works
Two gaps create shadow-AI risk. The visibility gap: you don't know which AI tools are reaching out from your network. The coverage gap: your block list has rules for the 30 tools you've heard of and nothing for the 250+ you haven't. GhostAI closes both — at the DNS layer, where you already have enforcement.
Connect Cloudflare Gateway or Umbrella (or upload a CSV). GhostAI maps every AI destination your network can reach against a curated registry of 300+ AI tools — chatbots, coding agents, MCP tooling, browser agents.
Every domain gets a risk score and a bucket: blocked, logged, or invisible. Your AI Coverage Score (0-100) rolls it into one number a board understands.
Fix the invisible bucket with a one-line export, or point your firewall at our auto-updating feed. Enforcement stays in YOUR stack — we never sit inline.
The enterprise giants agree on the problem: Palo Alto Networks calls shadow AI “one of the largest blind spots in AI adoption.” They sell the Fortune-500 fix — sales cycle, deployment project, and all. GhostAI is the version your team can run today, for $99 a month. See the comparison →
The industry debate is “what AI says vs what AI does.” Both start with the same question: what AI is being reached in the first place? That answer lives in DNS — and it's the layer your firewall can already enforce.
300+
curated AI tools, risk-scored - most are invisible to the average mid-market security stack.
69%
of organizations have suspected or confirmed shadow AI usage.
$4.63M
average cost of a shadow-AI-related data breach (IBM 2024).
For the governance conversation
“What AI tools touch our data, and what have we done about it?” Most teams answer with a shrug and a stale spreadsheet. GhostAI answers with evidence: a dated inventory of every AI destination on your network, risk-scored and bucketed as blocked, logged, or invisible - plus a trail of when each appeared and when you acted.
It's the artifact your auditor, your CRO, and your board actually want - generated in minutes, not assembled over a quarter.
Export a dated AI exposure report — inventory, risk scores, remediation status. Shareable by link, no login required.
Evidence that supports NIST AI RMF, ISO 42001, and SOC 2 vendor-risk reviews. GhostAI supplies the evidence; the certification stays yours.
Every AI domain: when it first appeared, the policy that saw it, and the action taken — appendable to your governance record.
Upload a block list or connect Cloudflare Gateway / Umbrella. See every AI domain bucketed as Blocked, Logged, or Invisible.
Point your firewall at a hosted EDL URL. New AI tools we find, your block list enforces — automatically.
Slack / Teams / email when a new AI domain shows up on your network. CRO-ready audit trail with time, source, destination.
Free tier includes a scan of the top 100 AI domains. No credit card.
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