Shadow AI

Shadow AI is already here, now make it safe

Your employees use Claude, Cursor, and Codex to build production internal tools, without your IT team knowing. RootCX gives them a governed place to ship, so you stop blocking and start controlling

The problem

Your employees are already building with AI, you just do not govern it yet

50% of workers use unapproved AI tools at work (SecurityWeek, 2025). Some go further: shipping production internal tools with real data, no security review, no IT visibility

SHADOW APPS

Shadow AI is employees shipping production internal tools

Built with Claude, Cursor, and Codex. Real data. Real users. No SSO. No permissions. No audit trail. Your IT team has never seen them.

POLICIES FAIL

You cannot enforce a document

You can write an AI policy. You cannot enforce it across 30 employees who each have AI tools installed. Blocking kills productivity. Allowing without infrastructure creates risk.

STRUCTURAL FIX

The governance must be in the platform

Behavioral controls fail at scale. The only approach that works is structural: security baked into the infrastructure itself. Builders cannot bypass what they never had to configure.

THE SOLUTION

Do not block AI, govern the output

RootCX is the governed infrastructure your team deploys AI-coded apps into. Every layer is structural, builders cannot skip it

IDENTITY

One login for every app

SSO with Okta, Microsoft Entra ID, Google Workspace, or any OIDC provider. Every AI-built app inherits the same identity layer. No separate credentials, no forgotten accounts.

PERMISSIONS

Control who does what

Role-based access on every resource. Builders build. Managers approve. AI agents follow the same rules as humans. No app escapes your permission model.

AUDIT

Every action, logged

Immutable audit trail across every app and agent. When compliance asks who accessed what, when, and why, the answer is one query. Not a scramble.

ISOLATION

Separated by default

Each project runs in its own workspace with its own database. One team cannot access another team's data unless you explicitly allow it. Structural boundaries, not policy documents.

WHY ROOTCX

Others detect shadow AI, we solve it

Detection tools tell you the problem exists.They alert you when employees use AI tools. After the fact. They do not prevent ungoverned apps from running in production.

Policies tell employees to stop.Employees ignore them or do not know they exist. You cannot enforce a PDF across 30 people with Claude Code installed.

Blocking kills productivity.You lose the competitive advantage of AI. Employees find workarounds. The shadow gets darker.

RootCX is the governed alternative.Instead of blocking or detecting, you provide infrastructure where governance is automatic. Every app lands with SSO, RBAC, and an audit trail. Nobody opted in. Nobody can opt out. See the full security layer or learn how builders use RootCX.

COMPLIANCE

Send this to your security team

Every box they will ask about, already checked. Built into the platform, not bolted on after.

SSO (OIDC)
MFA (via identity provider)
Role-based access control
Immutable audit log
Encryption at rest (AES-256)
Self-hostable
Secrets vault (encrypted)
Data isolation per project
Source available (FSL-1.1-ALv2)
No vendor lock-in
FOR IT LEADERS

End shadow AI without blocking AI

Give your team a governed place to build, talk to us about your situation