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Phase 1, Phase 2, then keep it running

A fixed-price gap analysis, remediation through to your audit, and upkeep after it. All in a workspace you keep.

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Led by a published security researcher with five CVEs. One standard report, letters for your buyers, and retests of your fixes.

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Prove you are secure

To the people you sell to, raise from or answer to.

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Original research, free tools, and plain-language guides on security and compliance, from a published security researcher.

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AI security & governance

Shadow AI Audit

From $2,000 CAD · scoped to you

Your team is using AI tools you never approved, pasting code, customer data, and strategy into services you’ve never vetted.

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A shadow-AI audit finds that unsanctioned usage, tells you where the real risk is, and brings it under governance instead of leaving it invisible.

Delivered by a researcher with five published CVEs, including a CVSS 9.1 in the Mirai botnet.

Built for teams that...

  • Organizations that suspect, or know, employees use AI tools off the books
  • Security teams that want visibility into actual AI usage, not assumptions
  • Companies rolling out an AI policy that needs a baseline of current reality
  • Leaders worried about sensitive data leaving through unvetted AI tools

What we do

  • Discovery of the AI and LLM tools actually in use across the org
  • Assessment of what data is flowing into those tools and where the risk concentrates
  • A risk ranking so you focus on the tools that matter, not every browser extension
  • Recommendations to sanction, restrict, or block each tool
  • A path to bring surviving tools under your AI governance program and policy

What you walk away with

You get an honest map of the AI actually running in your organization, ranked by risk, plus a plan to sanction the useful tools, shut down the dangerous ones, and fold the rest into governance, turning invisible risk into a managed inventory.

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Frequently asked questions

How do you discover shadow AI usage?

Through a combination of technical signals and structured discovery with your teams. The exact approach depends on your environment and tooling; we scope it so the picture is honest without being invasive.

What do we do once we find it?

We risk-rank the tools and recommend sanctioning, restricting, or blocking each one, then help fold the survivors into your AI governance program and acceptable-use policy.

Isn’t all shadow AI bad?

No, a lot of it is people trying to work faster. The goal is not to ban everything, but to see reality, kill the genuinely risky uses, and bring the useful ones into governance.

Does this pair with a vendor risk assessment?

Yes. The audit surfaces what is in use; an AI vendor risk assessment then digs into the security and privacy of the tools worth keeping.

The workspace is included, not quoted

The price above covers the work. It also covers where the work lives, which most buyers are quoted separately as an annual platform subscription.

traztech Workspace Other GRC platforms
Licence cost $0. Free forever, no card, no paid tier $7,500 to $50,000 a year, on an annual contract
Control library, evidence register, policy templates, risk register, vendor questionnaires, readiness scoring Included Included
What it costs inside an engagement with us $0. You need a workspace either way Unchanged. The subscription sits on top of the fee
What it does to your audit quote A documented readiness position the audit firm can scope and price against Nothing. The audit firm prices your readiness, not your tooling

Platform pricing is a publicly reported range, since none of them publish a number. The fuller comparison, including when a paid platform is the better buy, is on the Workspace page.

Shadow AI Audit, on your timeline

Book a free 30-minute call. We’ll tell you whether it fits, what it costs, and when we can start.

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Not ready to scope this yet? Open a free Workspace and score yourself against the framework first. It is the same register we work from during an engagement, so nothing you do there gets thrown away.

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Get the checklists that go with this

SOC 2 readiness, ISO 27001 gaps, incident response and vendor security, as PDFs you can print or forward. Free, no card.

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Track record

Who is actually doing the work

We would rather show you the work than a wall of logos. Here is what is behind the advice.

5
Published CVEs, including a CVSS 9.1
Zero
Exceptions on a SOC 2 Type II built from nothing in-house

Published vulnerability research

Five published CVEs. CVE-2024-45163 (CVSS 9.1) is a flaw in the Mirai botnet itself, which gave defenders a way to shut down attacker infrastructure. CVE-2026-42626 takes HP ENVY 5000 printers offline from any unauthenticated device on the same network.

The printer is the one that matters on a compliance page: an asset nobody counts as a computer, on a flat network, downed by a device that never had to log in. Auditors ask how controls fail. We have found out first-hand.

A SOC 2 Type II built from nothing

At Humera, a venture-backed US security company, Jacob built the compliance programme in-house from nothing: no report, no policies, no documented controls. It ended in a Type II attestation with zero exceptions.

The platform stayed in production throughout, which is the part most readiness projects get wrong: controls are easy to design and hard to retrofit onto a system people already depend on.

Recent engagements

For a Waterloo data centre operator we ran SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001:2022 together rather than one after the other, across a production campus, an AI compute platform and a self-hosted collaboration stack. Scoped so further Ontario and Quebec sites enter as they reach production. Findings delivered and remediated.

For an Ontario medtech company putting an AI clinical assistant in front of practitioners, we ran the gap analysis and built the evidence programme behind their SOC 2.