Why "they'll just use the free version" is the most expensive instinct in the room
Telling the team to use free AI is like telling them to use personal Gmail for work.
Convenient, free, and every customer contract ends up on someone else's server with no audit trail. Pay for the seatbelt. The license is the cheap part — the breach math is the real cost.
exposed vulnerabilities
Dario Amodei's warning at the May 5 financial-services briefing: a narrow window to fix tens of thousands of them.
Shadow AI is shadow IT in a faster-moving body.
Three pieces from the last 30 days that reinforce this analogy. Forward to the executive who's still calling it hype.
Dario Amodei: a narrow window for governments, banks, and software firms to fix tens of thousands of vulnerabilities. Shadow AI is the inside-the-walls version of that risk.
Read the original →The paid, audited version of what your team is already doing on personal accounts. Pay for the seatbelt before the breach math gets ugly.
Read the original →Available in Cowork, Code, API, and Office — with real governance. The licensed path costs more. It also leaves a trail when something goes sideways.
Read the original →The catalog is free. The live session is where Shadow AI Is Shadow IT, Faster gets applied to your specific stuck conversation — built for boards, ELTs, and founder-CEO 1:1s. Half-day, $7,500.