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Your team is using AI, even if you never rolled it out. That’s not a hot take, it’s the default now and it creates a quiet problem for entrepreneurs and small business owners: you can’t manage what you can’t see. Jason Wright and Georgia unpack “Shadow AI,” the behind the scenes use of tools like ChatGPT, Claude, browser extensions, and AI meeting note takers that people adopt on their own to move faster.

We get specific about why this matters for data security and client trust. When someone pastes customer details, pricing, or internal notes into a free or unapproved tool, that information can end up stored somewhere you can’t audit, control, or retrieve. Nobody is trying to leak data, they’re trying to do good work quickly, which is exactly why a simple ban usually fails. If you block AI at work, people often shift to personal phones and personal accounts, and visibility gets worse.

Our fix is practical, not preachy: bring it into the light. We share a three step playbook to ask what tools people are using without punishment, choose approved tools and standardize safe use, then anchor behavior with one rule everyone can remember: don’t paste anything you wouldn’t post publicly unless it’s an approved tool set up to protect the data. We also point you to a quick way to check whether your email and password may already be exposed online. If you found this useful, subscribe, share it with another owner, and leave a review so more teams can use AI safely.

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