Shadow AI

Personal-account visibility

Discovered AI tools and accounts — including personal accounts vendor consoles can't see.

68% of employees use free-tier ChatGPT-style tools on personal accounts — invisible to every vendor compliance console, regardless of tier. OpenAI's, Anthropic's, and Google's consoles see none of it. Zeflin sits in the browser, so it does.

Menlo Security, 2025 Report; corroborated by Verizon DBIR 2026 (67%)

Discovered tools