THE VISIBILITY AND CONTROL LAYER FOR AI AT WORK

You can't control the AI you can't see.

One platform that finds every AI tool on every laptop, shows you exactly what they are sending, and lets you block it, approve it, or shut it all down in one click.

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500+ AI TOOLS ACROSS BROWSER, DESKTOP, CLI, AND MCP
RIGHT NOW, ON YOUR TEAM'S LAPTOPS

The AI you approved is not the AI they are using.

While you read this, someone on your team is pasting a customer list into a chatbot you have never heard of. A developer is running an AI agent with access to production. A new tool just got signed up for with a company email. None of it shows up anywhere you can see.

80%
of employees use AI that IT never approved
60%
of companies have already leaked data to AI
$670k
more per shadow-AI breach - and 26% longer to find
SO FAR YOU HAVE THREE OPTIONS
"AI policy: ask again in Q3"
Ban it.
Block the tools and publish the policy. Your best people route around you in a week, on their phones, and now you see even less.
"An intern just pasted the customer list"
Ignore it.
Hope nothing leaks. 60% of companies already lost that bet.
"The desktop app never touched the proxy"
Buy a gateway.
Route the AI you know about through a proxy, and stay blind to the browser tab, the desktop app, and the coding agent that never touch it.

There is a fourth option.

THE FOURTH OPTION

See all of it. Control any of it.

Northbeams sits on the laptop, not the network. It watches the four places AI actually happens and gives you one dashboard to see everything and shut down anything. No proxy, no MITM cert, no network change.

Browser
Every chatbot, every tab, every prompt.
Desktop
Every AI app running on Mac and PC.
CLI
Every coding agent in the terminal.
MCP
Every tool an AI agent can reach, governed one by one.
THE DIFFERENCE

Everyone else covers a slice.
Northbeams covers all four.

BROWSER
DESKTOP
CLI
MCP
Secure web gateway
✓
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Endpoint DLP agent
✓
✓
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API / MCP gateway
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✓
Northbeams
✓
✓
✓
✓
SEE EVERYTHING

Your shadow AI, mapped in 24 hours.

Install it, and by Monday you have the first sweep: every AI tool in use, who is using it, and what they are sending. The prompt is inspected on the device, so the sensitive text never leaves the laptop.

Full tool inventory across all four surfaces
Sensitive prompts flagged on-device - source code, customer data, secrets
Every action tied to a real person
The average 50-person company: 27 AI tools, 143 sensitive prompts a month.
Unregistered agent
finance-bot · personal API key
27 AI tools on the chart
every action tied to a real person
CONTROL ANYTHING

Block it, approve it, or shut it all down.

Block what's dangerous.
On-device redaction stops the prompt before it leaves.
Draft an email to Acme Corp about the renewal at $84k and cc jane@…
✕ BLOCKED
⛨ 3 redacted on-device
Approve in Slack.SIGNAL FLAGS
Turn a block into a 30-second yes, in the channel your team already lives in.
NorthbeamsAPPDirect message · 9:12 AM
Priya (Design) wants to use an unlisted image tool with a product mock. Approve for this session?
Approve Deny Redirect
✓ Approved · Priya can proceed
Undo
Point them somewhere safe.SAFE BERTHS
Redirect a blocked tool to the one you sanction.
unlisted-chatbot.app
blocked
→
Your sanctioned AI
safe berth ✓
Kill it in one click.CLOSE THE HARBOR
Block every AI tool on every laptop the moment something goes wrong.
Harbor open
Flip to block everything, everywhere
ARMED
LIVE IN AN AFTERNOON
01
Install.
Browser extension plus the desktop app. Two minutes. No network change.
02
See.
Your first sweep lands within 24 hours.
03
Control.
Turn on blocking, approvals, and the kill switch when you are ready.
WHAT WE SEE

500+ AI tools. Four surfaces. One dashboard.

We track every major AI tool and add new ones every day. We publish our coverage, including what we miss. Most tools show you a logo wall. We show you the scorecard.

ChatGPT Claude Gemini Copilot Cursor Perplexity Midjourney Notion AI Windsurf Ollama Replit v0 Grammarly Otter Poe LM Studio ChatGPT Claude Gemini Copilot Cursor Perplexity Midjourney Notion AI Windsurf Ollama Replit v0 Grammarly Otter Poe LM Studio
See the coverage scorecard →
FOUNDER TO FOUNDER

I built Northbeams because every company I talked to had the same blind spot and no honest way to close it. We are early, and we say so. Founding customers lock in their pricing for life and shape what we build next. If you can see your shadow AI by Monday and it changes how you sleep, we have done our job.

JM
Joe McCormack
Founder, Northbeams

The AI is already running. The only question is whether you can see it.

Install free. See your shadow AI by Monday.

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