Right now, someone at your company is pasting customer data into ChatGPT. Someone in finance is running sensitive numbers through an AI tool your IT team has never heard of. Someone in legal just uploaded a contract to a summarizer that feeds its training model with everything it receives.
They're not being malicious. They're trying to work faster. And they're exposing your organization every single time they do it.
1 in 5
orgs breached via shadow AI
IBM 2025
$4.63M
average shadow AI breach cost
IBM 2025
46%
of orgs with AI data leakage
Cisco 2025
67%
of ChatGPT use on unmanaged accounts
LayerX 2025
Most companies think they've addressed this. They sent a memo. Maybe they added a paragraph to the employee handbook. Perhaps they blocked ChatGPT on the corporate network and watched employees immediately switch to their phones.
Here's what the data actually says:
of breached organizations either don't have an AI governance policy or are still developing one
of organizations with policies perform regular audits for unsanctioned AI use
of organizations have dedicated AI governance structures in place
You can't enforce a policy you can't monitor. And you can't monitor what you can't see.
Shadow IT was your marketing team using Dropbox without permission. Annoying, but bounded. The data sat there.
Shadow AI is fundamentally different. When an employee pastes proprietary information into a public AI tool, that data doesn't just sit on a server. It gets processed, interpreted, and potentially incorporated into the model's training data. Your competitive strategy, your client information, your financial projections. They don't just leak. They become part of someone else's product.
The prompts themselves are intelligence. "Summarize this contract and identify terms unfavorable to us" tells the AI not just the contract contents, but your negotiating position and strategic concerns. A developer debugging proprietary code through ChatGPT just handed your source code to a third-party server. A financial analyst running customer data through an unapproved tool just created a compliance violation that could trigger regulatory action.
Real Incident
Samsung engineers pasted proprietary chip-design code into ChatGPT. The company banned it organization-wide. But only after the data was already gone.
We don't sell you a memo and wish you luck. We build and install the security infrastructure that sits between your employees and AI, so your team gets the productivity gains without the catastrophic risk.
We map every AI tool, plugin, browser extension, and integration your employees are using. The ones you approved. The ones you didn't. The ones you didn't know existed. Most enterprises have over 1,000 unofficial applications creating potential vulnerabilities. We find them.
Not a template. A real, enforceable policy built around your industry, your regulatory environment, your risk tolerance, and your actual workflows. We define what's approved, what's prohibited, and what requires review. Then we give you the tools to enforce it.
We build private, sandboxed AI environments where your team can use AI safely. Your data stays inside your walls. No training on your inputs. No third-party exposure. Your employees get the speed they want. You get the security you need.
Real-time monitoring and guardrails that detect when sensitive information (PII, financial data, proprietary code, client information) is being entered into AI tools. We catch it before it leaves.
Your people are not the enemy. They just don't know what they don't know. We run practical, role-specific training that shows employees how to use AI powerfully without putting the company at risk.
AI tools change weekly. New models launch. Policies shift. We provide continuous monitoring, regular audits, and compliance reporting so you stay ahead of both the threat landscape and the regulatory environment.
We actively try to break your AI systems and bypass your controls. The same way an attacker would. We find the vulnerabilities before someone else does.
If your organization handles sensitive data and your employees have internet access, this is for you.
Protecting student records, research IP, and institutional data
AI compliance for traders, analysts, and customer-facing teams
Deploying AI for citizen services while managing classified data
HIPAA-bound organizations watching staff paste patient data into AI daily
AI as competitive advantage without million-dollar breach risk
ArcticBlue, McKinsey, Deloitte. They'll run a six-month assessment, hand you a 200-page PDF, and send you an invoice that could fund a small department. Then they leave. And your team will still be pasting customer data into ChatGPT the next morning.
We're operators, not consultants. We don't just assess. We build, deploy, monitor, and manage. We're your fractional AI security team. We embed into your organization, stand up the infrastructure, train your people, and stay in the loop to keep everything running. When a new AI tool launches next month and your employees start using it the same day, we're already on it.
This is what Humanity AI does. We make businesses more peaceful and more profitable. And right now, nothing is less peaceful than wondering whether your next data breach is sitting in someone's ChatGPT history.
$4.63M
Average shadow AI breach cost
A fraction
of that for a Humanity Guard engagement
97% of organizations that experienced AI-related breaches lacked basic access controls. Don't be the 97%.
Book a confidential AI security assessment. We'll show you exactly what's happening inside your organization. What tools are being used, what data is being exposed, and what it would take to lock it down without killing productivity.
Mark Murray
mark@gethumanity.aiMichael Koontz
806-831-8436Sources: IBM 2025 Cost of a Data Breach Report; Cisco 2025 AI Security Study; LayerX Security Enterprise AI & SaaS Data Security Report 2025; Gartner 2025 AI Governance Survey; Kiteworks 2025 AI Data Flow Research; Deloitte 2025 AI Governance Assessment; ISACA 2025 Shadow AI Audit Report