VOL_01 / 2026 — Free worksheet
The Shadow AI Quick Scan.
A self-serve worksheet you fill in yourself, in about an hour, to surface the AI tools your company is actually using. Built so you can answer the next vendor questionnaire, RFP, or board question with something better than "we'll get back to you."
What's in it
- [ 01 ]25 shadow-AI hiding spots across browser AI, embedded SaaS features, code copilots, marketing/sales tools, support automation, voice/transcription, image generation, and department-specific AI.
- [ 02 ]A 5-column rubric for each tool you find: who uses it, what data goes in, paid plan or not, ToS reviewed, and a self-assigned risk flag (red / yellow / green).
- [ 03 ]5 questions to bring to your next exec meeting — sharp enough to surface real gaps, short enough to fit on one slide.
- [ 04 ]Print-friendly format. Open the worksheet, hit Ctrl+P (or Cmd+P), save as PDF or print. Fill it in by hand or in a doc.
What it isn't
It isn't the full Shadow AI Audit. The Audit risk-ranks findings, runs structured interviews with department leads, reviews vendor terms, and produces a 25-page report a senior advisor signs. That's a paid engagement. This worksheet is the part you can do yourself — and a sharper starting point than a blank page.
Honest about scope. If you fill this in and find your company is using more AI tools than you thought, in more places than you thought, with more data flowing through them than anyone documented — that's the normal answer. The next step is figuring out which of those tools actually carry risk. That's the conversation to have with us.