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Stop guessing what your team spends on AI.

Shadow AI shows every dollar — by user, by team, by tool — in real time. Set budgets, get alerts, cut waste.

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$1,240

duplicate spend recovered

38 hrs

saved per month

11.4×

average ROI

Shadow AI dashboard showing spend by user, team, and tool

Sound familiar?

Most companies have no idea what they're paying for AI.

By the time they find out, months of budget are gone.

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"We're paying for how many tools?"

Your team signed up for ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, and Perplexity — separately, on different cards. Nobody has the full list. Some are duplicates. Some nobody uses anymore.

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"Why did the bill jump this month?"

One engineer ran a script that made 10,000 API calls overnight. You find out 30 days later when the invoice arrives. There's no alert, no dashboard, no way to know until it's too late.

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"What are we actually getting from AI?"

Leadership wants to know if the AI spend is worth it. You have no data to show them. You're guessing — and that makes the whole AI initiative look bad.

Shadow AI fixes this

One dashboard. Every dollar. Full control.

💳

Find waste instantly

See which tools nobody uses and which subscriptions overlap. Cancel what's not working — before it renews.

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See who uses what

Know exactly which users and teams are active — and which paid seats are just sitting idle.

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Get alerts before it's too late

Set monthly budgets per team or tool. Get a Slack or email alert at 80% — not after you've already gone over.

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Answer the budget question

When leadership asks "what are we getting from AI?" — Shadow AI gives you the data to answer in 30 seconds.

How it works

Up and running in 5 minutes.

No infrastructure changes. No code refactor required.

1

Connect your tools

Install the Chrome extension — it automatically tracks ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, and more. No IT approval needed.

2

Invite your team

Add users and group them into teams. Shadow AI immediately shows you who's using what and how much it costs.

3

See the full picture

Your dashboard shows real-time spend, waste, and ROI. Every Monday you get a digest in your inbox — no login required.

User-level tracking

Track AI usage down to the user.

Per-user reporting

Install the Shadow AI Chrome extension and every ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, and Gemini session is automatically captured — no code changes, no IT approval. Each event is attributed to the signed-in user so you see exactly who's spending what.

Shadow AI tracker showing today's events, sync state, backend connection, organization, and user settings

What gets tracked

Active users17 tracked this week
Sessions with measurable savings68%
Users with multiple tools41%

Marketing

$640

Research and campaign workflows.

Sales

$420

Outreach prep and call summaries.

Engineering

$1,120

Highest optimization opportunity.

Leaders care about

Spend + ROI

Trends, savings, and decisions.

Trusted by teams

Marketing, Sales, and Engineering use Shadow AI to track usage, reduce waste, and prove ROI.

Usage metrics Team reports ROI summaries
Shadow AI reports view showing a usage trend chart and a top AI tools bar chart

Weekly digest

A Monday summary for admins.

See spend, top tools, active users, and anomalies without opening the dashboard.

ROI story

Answer the budget question.

Reduce duplicate tool costs and justify AI spend with data.

Important metrics

Active users
AI events
Actual spend
Estimated spend
Top tools
Time saved

ROI breakdown

Your team is already spending on AI. Know if it's worth it.

Shadow AI surfaces duplicate subscriptions, inactive seats, and which tools drive real outcomes — so you can cut what's wasted and double down on what works.

Estimated monthly value

$3,230

Hours saved38 hrs
Loaded hourly rate$85/hr
Duplicate subscriptions found4
ROI ratio11.4×

For engineering teams

Track every API call automatically.

If your team uses the OpenAI or Anthropic API directly, install our SDK and every call is tracked automatically — cost, model, tokens, latency. One line of code. Nothing else changes.

  • Drop into any existing OpenAI or Anthropic project — no refactor
  • Fire-and-forget — zero latency added to your API calls
  • Only captures cost, tokens, and latency — never prompt content
  • Tag spend by team, user, or environment automatically

After signup

Your API key and base URL are pre-filled in Settings → Integrations. Copy, paste, ship.

Get your API key →
pip install shadow-ai
from openai import OpenAI
from shadow_ai import wrap

# One line wraps your existing client
client = wrap(
    OpenAI(api_key="sk-..."),
    api_key="YOUR_SHADOW_AI_KEY",
    base_url="https://shadow-ai-eta.vercel.app",
    team="backend",
)

# Use exactly as before — nothing changes
response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="gpt-4o-mini",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}],
)
# → cost, tokens, latency logged automatically
New · Model Context Protocol

Ask Claude about your AI spend.

Connect Shadow AI as an MCP server and your assistant can read spend, budgets, and anomalies — then set guardrails — in plain English. Works with Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP client. Paste one URL, no new dashboard to learn.

Claude
MCP
Shadow AI

Example: you ask Claude how much your team spent on AI this month. Claude calls the get_spend_summary tool and answers with the exact figure and top teams. You ask it to cap the Sales team at two thousand dollars a month; Claude calls create_budget and confirms the budget with an alert at eighty percent.

https://shadow-ai-eta.vercel.app/api/mcp Server URL

Ask in plain English

"What did we spend on Claude last week?" "Which team is over budget?" Your assistant pulls live numbers with get_spend_summary, get_org_overview, and list_events.

Set guardrails from chat

Admins can create budgets and configure alerts without leaving the conversation — create_budget and configure_alerts unlock only for admin keys.

Read-only & private by default

Scoped API keys mean agents see spend, not secrets — prompt content is never exposed. Read tools work with any key; writes stay locked to admins.

Pricing

Simple pricing for teams getting serious about AI.

Start free. Upgrade when you need the full picture.

Free

$0/mo

Forever. No credit card.

  • Up to 5 team members
  • 25,000 events / month
  • Browser extension (ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot)
  • Real-time spend dashboard
  • Usage trend charts
Get started free
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Pro

$49/mo

For teams that mean business.

  • Unlimited team members
  • Unlimited events
  • Python & Node.js SDK (OpenAI + Anthropic)
  • Anthropic billing API (exact per-user spend)
  • Budget guardrails + Slack/email alerts
  • Anomaly detection
  • Cost optimization insights
  • Weekly email digest
  • CSV export & reports
Start free trial

Both plans include a 14-day Pro trial. No credit card required to start.

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