AI Your Data Can Trust
Before you let AI into your company, make sure it can only see what it should.
Before you let AI into your company, make sure it can only see what it should. Most teams already have unofficial AI in use: personal chatbot accounts, browser extensions, a spreadsheet plugin someone installed. This audit finds it, decides what is allowed, and gives you a permissions model and a policy you can hand to staff.
A structured audit of your team structure, document access, and tool permissions. We deliver a permissions model, a remediation plan, and guardrails for every AI integration we subsequently build.
Who this is for
Businesses about to roll out AI
You want the guardrails in place before the training and the automations, not after an incident.
Firms with confidentiality obligations
Legal, financial, medical-adjacent, HR-heavy, or anything under a client NDA. Shadow AI is a data-handling problem before it is a technology problem.
Companies whose file permissions grew organically
Shared drives where everyone can see everything. AI makes that discoverable in seconds, so it has to be fixed first.
How it runs
- Discover. We inventory AI tools in use (official and unofficial), map your team structure, and review document and tool permissions across your stack.
- Decide. Together we set what is approved, what is banned, and what needs a sanctioned alternative. We write the acceptable use policy in plain English.
- Deliver. A permissions model, a remediation plan in priority order, and guardrails that every AI integration we build afterward has to respect.
What you walk away with
- Shadow AI inventory: what is in use and what it can see
- Permissions model for documents, tools, and AI access
- Remediation plan in priority order
- A written AI acceptable use policy for staff
- Guardrails for every future AI integration
Santa Barbara and the Central Coast. Delivered on site for Santa Barbara and Ventura County businesses and remotely for everyone else. Often the first engagement for law, finance, and healthcare-adjacent firms.
Questions about ai your data can trust
What is shadow AI?
AI tools your staff use without approval or oversight: personal chatbot accounts, browser extensions, note-takers in meetings, plugins in spreadsheets. It is common, usually well-intentioned, and a data-leak risk until it is managed. Read the plain-English guide for the full picture.
Is this a security audit?
It is narrower and more practical. We focus on what AI can reach: documents, tools, and accounts. If you need a full cybersecurity assessment we will say so and point you to the right people.
Do you need access to our systems?
Read-only access to your drive and admin consoles, plus an hour with the people who know where things live. We never copy your data out.
How long does it take?
Two weeks from kickoff to the written deliverables.
What does it cost?
A fixed fee quoted in writing after a 30-minute call, before any work begins.
Thirty minutes to scope ai your data can trust for your business.
No slides and no pitch deck. We look at your stack and your time sinks and sketch the first workflow together.