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Shadow AI

Your people are already using AI.

Usually on tools you haven’t approved, because they’re useful and close to hand. Give them a better one.

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HeyMi working through a freight company’s P&L and finding three opportunities worth about $1.5M a year

How it happens

Nobody decided to do anything risky.

  1. 01

    Somebody has a job to do

    A quote to price, a tender to draft, a forty-page contract to read before Thursday.

  2. 02

    The easiest tool wins

    It’s already open in another tab, it’s free, and it genuinely helps.

  3. 03

    The business loses sight of it

    Company detail is now somewhere you can’t see, govern, audit or delete.

  4. 04

    Give them a better option

    An approved tool that’s more useful on company work, because it knows the company.

Ban it or replace it

A ban moves the problem. It doesn’t solve it.

Ban itReplace it with HeyMi
What people doBan it: Strip out the detail, ask anyway, get a general answer.Replace it with HeyMi: Ask the real question with the detail left in.
Where it goesBan it: Wherever that provider processes it.Replace it with HeyMi: Australia, inside your controls.
What you can seeBan it: Nothing.Replace it with HeyMi: Optional logging and audit.
Effect of a banBan it: Moves onto personal phones, where you see even less.Replace it with HeyMi: Not needed. The safe tool is the better one.

Your data, your call.

Complete data sovereignty and autonomy. Your information stays in Australia, remains entirely yours, and is never used to train public AI.

  • Stays in Australia.

    Stored and processed locally. It never leaves the country.

  • Yours to take back.

    You decide what we keep, how long, and when to delete it.

  • Trains no one else.

    Your data is secure and only used for you.

What people ask us first.

What’s shadow AI?

Shadow AI is employees using AI tools the business hasn’t approved and often doesn’t know about. It’s rarely malicious. It happens because the unapproved tool is genuinely useful and easier to reach than anything the business has provided.

Should we just ban public AI tools?

A ban moves the behaviour onto personal devices, where the business can see even less of it. A policy is worth having, but a practical alternative works better, because it removes the reason people went outside in the first place.

What’s the actual risk?

Confidential information leaving the business without a record of it. Customer pricing, contract terms, staff matters, board material and cost data pasted into a public tool are outside your control from that moment.

How does HeyMi help with shadow AI?

It removes the reason for it. HeyMi is more useful than a public tool on company work, because it has the company context, and it keeps the information inside a controlled Australian environment with permissions by user and role and no external model training.

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