The quiet cost of AI shadow IT
The dramatic AI incidents make headlines. The boring ones — the ones that quietly cost your business — almost never do.
Most shadow AI cost is in duplicate licensing, lost productivity from tool-switching, and slow drift away from your standards.
It's hard to see in the P&L because it's spread across teams.
An honest inventory plus an approved-tools list captures most of the savings.
Where the money goes
Three categories: redundant licenses (your team is paying for two summarization tools when one would do), context switching (every team uses different tools, slowing collaboration), and slow regression (vendors quietly downgrade their data commitments and nobody notices).
None of this looks like an incident. All of it adds up to slower, more expensive, less coherent operations than you'd otherwise have.
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