Shadow AI discovery
Find the AI you do not know is running.
OBEXGATE continuously scans four surfaces for ungoverned AI agents. Discovered agents are automatically registered onto the compliance surface and become subject to the same enforcement, drift detection, and audit trail as any other governed system.
The four surfaces
Where ungoverned agents actually live.
→ Cloud infrastructure
API gateways, Lambda functions, managed ML endpoints, container orchestrators. Anywhere an agent may be deployed without oversight.
→ Network traffic
Egress and ingress patterns that reveal agent-to-system and agent-to-agent communication not recorded in any service catalogue.
→ Log streams
Application, audit, and access logs where agent activity leaves traces even when the agent itself is not formally registered.
→ Configuration stores
Feature flags, environment variables, service registries, and policy documents that reference agents or agent-like services not present in the governance inventory.
What happens on a match
Discovered agents are registered automatically.
When a discovery match occurs, OBEXGATE creates a cryptographically signed registration record and brings the previously invisible agent onto the compliance surface. Once registered, the agent becomes subject to the same governance pipeline as any other:
→ Policy evaluation
Every action is checked against applicable frameworks, including GDPR, EU AI Act, HIPAA, SOC 2, and any others that apply to the discovered agent's operating context.
→ Drift detection
Behavioural changes trigger reclassification under EU AI Act Article 25 substantial-modification doctrine where applicable.
→ Enforcement gates
Blocked actions surface in the governance feed for human review and override decisions. Override is recorded with named authority.
→ Audit trail
All decisions, whether allowed or blocked, are recorded in the tamper-evident event log with full traceability.
Why this matters
Closes the gap between deployed and governed.
Agents cannot operate outside policy simply because nobody knew they existed. Shadow AI Discovery closes the gap between what is deployed and what is governed. The same evaluation, drift detection, and audit trail apply to discovered agents as to formally registered ones.
Operational difference. Without discovery: ungoverned agents accumulate, regulatory exposure compounds invisibly. With discovery: every agent is on the compliance surface within one scan cycle of deployment.
See what discovery would surface in your environment.
Six questions. Personalised regulatory map, three-year operational governance cost basis, statutory exposure. Or 30 minutes with the team to walk through a discovery scoping conversation.