System & Shadow AI Discovery
Find the AI you didn't know you were using
Transcend continuously monitors your systems to reveal where personal data lives, and every AI vendor or model touching it, sanctioned or not. Each is automatically classified against the EU AI Act's risk tiers, so you always know what's high-risk, low-risk, or needs a closer look.
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The Status QuoYou can’t govern what you don’t see
With 57% of organizations adding new data systems every week, shadow IT and shadow AI pile up faster than any manual process can track. Spreadsheets and point-in-time audits go stale the moment a new tool gets connected, and every untracked system is a blind spot in your governance program.
Only Transcend gives you total data visibility across your systems
Gain total visibility of legacy and AI systems
See every system that touches personal data, from legacy infrastructure to your newest AI tool or vendor. The foundation for real-time governance and control.
Pre-built discovery plugins
Out-of-the-box scanners for your websites, codebase, databases, and SaaS tools. Designed to automatically flag AI vendors as they're found.
Automated Data Inventory
Every system and AI vendor populates directly into your Data Inventory, classified and risk-scored. No manual upkeep required.
find and risk score shadow aiMove from blind spots to full control of your permissioned data
Continuous discovery
Every new AI tool or system gets picked up automatically without scheduled scans or manual audits. No new sign-up, plugin, or shadow deployment goes untracked, even if IT never approved it. Custom connectors included.
See the Data InventoryAutomatic risk classification
Every AI vendor is scored against the EU AI Act's risk tiers the moment it's discovered. Or, create your own custom risk classifiers. High-risk vendors get flagged the moment they're found, not at the next audit cycle.
Explore AI TransformationFrom discovery to action
Flag a high-risk system and launch an assessment in the same workflow. No exporting to spreadsheets or looping in another tool to get an assessment moving.
Reach outBest in class autonomous privacy operations to scale the enterprise
System Discovery is one piece of Autonomous Privacy Operations, Transcend's connected system for discovering, encoding, and enforcing policy across your data stack and your AI stack. Explore additional products and capabilities below.
AI Governance
Encode Do Not Train, purpose limits, and agent permissions into every system.
For the most sensitive data use cases
Sombra
Sombra is Transcend's self-hosted, zero-trust security gateway, the only secure-by-design architecture built to handle your most sensitive data. With two-way encryption, it runs entirely inside your infrastructure and keeps your API keys, so we never see it.
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Integrations
Transcend integrates with every system, from internal databases to SaaS tools to unify your fragmented permissioned data. Every integration is built and managed in-house on a zero-trust, secure architecture, so governance and data decisions reach every corner of the data stack, in real-time. Custom integrations available.
“Thanks to Transcend, we are able to pull a complete view of our estate through data mapping, so reporting to the board on our risk appetite has become super easy.”
Kat Vetrakova
Head of Privacy & Security
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Find all sources of AI data at your enterprise
Get a walkthrough of what's already running in your environment. No guessing, no manual audit. Technical data governance debt is growing daily for any company leveraging AI.
The EU AI Act: What it means for your stack
A practical breakdown of the EU AI Act's risk tiers, and what continuous compliance actually requires.
The Encoded AI Governance difference
See how discovery, classification, and policy enforcement work together across your entire AI footprint. Policy on paper or reviewed as scans is not governance. See the difference.
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