CoChat Launches AI Collaboration Platform to Combat Shadow AI

Shadow AI is by definition invisible to and uncontrolled by both the IT and security departments.

Shadow IT is a long-standing security concern. Its primary cause is the employee attempting to improve performance – to be better at work. Its effect is the introduction of unknown and unmanaged risk, and that can be problematic.

Today, shadow IT is morphing into shadow AI – the tools employees quietly introduce to improve their personal performance are increasingly AI tools. The effect is the same, but the risk is magnified by the potential power of unknown and unmanaged agentic AI.

CoChat, launched in the first week of April 2026, is a platform designed to bring visibility and governance into enterprise AI shadows. It does this by providing employee access to the major foundational LLMs and removing the need for users to establish multiple disconnected gen-AI and agentic AI silos. 

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