Bringing Shadow AI Into the Light
Shadow AI Labs helps small and medium businesses discover, assess, and govern their AI usage before it becomes a costly security breach or compliance failure.
Founder
Peter Kwidzinski
Founder, Shadow AI Labs
After 20+ years architecting security at the hardware level, I kept seeing the same pattern: organizations rushing to adopt AI while leaving massive security gaps.
Shadow AI—employees using unauthorized AI tools with company data—has become an epidemic. Most SMBs have no idea what AI tools are being used, what data is being shared, or what risks they're exposed to.
I founded Shadow AI Labs to bring enterprise-grade AI governance practices to businesses that can't afford a full security team but can't afford a breach either.
Credentials
Built on real expertise
- AMD Fellow
- Twenty years in platform security architecture, confidential computing, and hardware attestation.
- Caliptra Founding Contributor
- Helped create the open-source hardware root of trust now used across the cloud-and-silicon industry.
- AI Accelerator Security
- Lead architect for security architecture of next-generation AI accelerator platforms — confidential computing, attestation, secure boot.
- 20+ Years Experience
- Two decades of hands-on security architecture across hardware, firmware, and software domains.
How We Work
Our approach
- Practitioner over Marketer
Peter writes the AUP, runs the discovery, reads the underwriter response. No SDRs, no sales engineers, no junior associates running the engagement under a senior's name.
- Productized, not Custom
The Sprint is the Sprint — 2 weeks, fixed scope, fixed price, $5,500. We don't bill hourly, we don't scope-creep, and we don't quote on the call. If we don't fit, we'll tell you in the Discovery call.
- SMB-Specialty, not SMB-Generalist
Enterprise consultancies aren't built for $1M–$25M revenue companies. We've designed every deliverable for the 10–200 employee range — same NIST AI RMF rigor, sized for the team that's actually going to operate it.
- Built for the Forcing Function
The deliverable is designed to be useful when a cyber insurance underwriter, a SOC 2 / HIPAA auditor, or an enterprise customer's vendor security questionnaire asks "what's your AI governance?" If you don't have a forcing function, the Toolkit is probably the right call instead.
Ready to get started?
Take our free assessment to identify your AI security risks, or reach out directly to discuss your needs.
Or email us directly:
peter@shadowailabs.com