Control Zero for IT Governance
Discover Every AI Tool Touching Your Infrastructure.
Teams adopt AI tools faster than security can track. Local models, personal API keys, unauthorized services. Scout finds all of it. Continuously. Before it becomes a compliance problem.
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The problem
AI tools are adopted faster than security can track. Developers install local models. Teams sign up for AI APIs with personal accounts. Credentials appear in config files, environment variables, shell history. There is no inventory, no visibility, no control.
The answer
Scout discovers everything continuously. One lightweight agent scans for AI API traffic, running AI processes, and exposed credentials across every machine in your fleet. Results in your dashboard within minutes. Every decision logged.
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The Shift
Shadow AI Is the #1 IT Governance Challenge.
Every week, new AI tools appear on your network. Developers download Ollama and run models locally. Teams connect to ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini with personal accounts. AI coding assistants send code to external APIs without your knowledge.
Your endpoint security does not see AI-specific traffic. Your CASB does not know what Ollama is. Your DLP cannot inspect model API calls. The tools you already own were not built for this category.
Scout was built for exactly this problem. A lightweight agent that understands AI infrastructure. It knows the difference between an OpenAI API call and normal HTTPS traffic. It recognizes local model servers, AI coding tools, and exposed credentials. Discovery first. Enforcement when you are ready.
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Introducing Scout
Three capabilities in one agent. Discovery finds what is running. Enforcement controls what is allowed. Fleet management scales it across your organization.
Discovery Scanning
Find Every AI Service
Scout scans for outbound AI API traffic, locally running model servers, AI coding assistants, and exposed credentials. Covers OpenAI, Anthropic, Google AI, Cohere, Mistral, Ollama, LM Studio, Cursor, and more. New providers added weekly.
Enforcement
Block What Is Not Allowed
Define which AI services are approved. Scout enforces locally via DNS-level blocking and firewall rules. Opt-in enforcement only. Discovery mode runs first so you understand your landscape before making decisions.
Fleet Management and Compliance
One Dashboard for Every Endpoint
Manage Scout agents across hundreds of machines from a single dashboard. See which endpoints have AI activity, which credentials are exposed, and which services are unapproved. Generate audit-ready compliance reports showing AI usage across your organization. Filter by machine, department, provider, or risk level.
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How Scout Works
Deploy
One command installs Scout as a lightweight background service. No kernel modules, no root access required. Works on Linux, macOS, and Windows.
Discover
Scans for AI API traffic, running model servers, AI coding tools, and exposed credentials. Results appear in your dashboard within minutes.
Report
Complete inventory of every AI service in use. Filter by machine, provider, risk level. Export for compliance. Continuous, not one-shot.
Enforce
Block unauthorized AI at DNS or firewall level. Define your allow list, then enable enforcement. Discovery first, control when ready.
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How We Compare
Different tools solve different problems. Control Zero Scout is the only agent purpose-built for AI service discovery and enforcement across endpoints.
| Capability | Control Zero | Kolide | 1Password Extended | Manual Audit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI-specific traffic detection | Y | -- | -- | -- |
| Local model server discovery | Y | -- | -- | Partial |
| AI credential scanning | Y | -- | Y | DIY |
| Continuous automated scanning | Y | Y | -- | -- |
| DNS-level enforcement | Y | -- | -- | DIY |
| Fleet-wide dashboard | Y | Y | Y | -- |
| AI provider inventory | Y | -- | -- | DIY |
| Compliance reporting | Y | Y | -- | DIY |
| Free tier | Y | -- | -- | N/A |
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Where This Is Heading
IT Governance Is Becoming Automated
Right now, IT teams deploy Scout to discover what AI tools are running across their fleet. They review findings in the dashboard, define an approved services list, and enable enforcement when ready. This is where most endpoint tools stop.
But AI adoption does not slow down for quarterly audits. New providers launch monthly. Developers find new tools weekly. Manual inventory becomes stale the moment it is completed. That is why Scout scans continuously, not on a schedule you define, but as a persistent background service.
The industry is heading somewhere more fundamental. As AI becomes standard infrastructure, the distinction between sanctioned and shadow dissolves. What matters is governance: which services are approved, what data flows where, and whether your policies are enforced consistently across every endpoint.
We are building for that trajectory. Scout today discovers and enforces. Tomorrow it integrates with your identity provider, your SIEM, your compliance workflows. Every finding is API-accessible. Every enforcement action is auditable. From a single laptop to a fleet of thousands.
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