AI · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to ShadowLock
Shadow AI detection platform for MSPs and IT teams
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Shadow 2.0▲529Hi HN, We built Shadow, a real-time meeting assistant that listens to your call and surfaces useful prompts while you’re speaking. The idea came from a simple observation: during important conversations (sales calls, founder meetings, interviews) you often realize the best question or insight 5 minutes too late. Shadow tries to solve that by acting like a quiet wingman during the call. What it does right now: • Tracks agenda topics so conversations don’t drift • Suggests follow-up questions based on what’s being said • Surfaces useful facts or angles in real time This is still an early MVP…
May 2026 · shadowlabs.ai · its alternatives →
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Sup HN, So I got tired of bouncing between Flightradar, MarineTraffic, and Twitter every time something kicked off globally, so I wrote a dashboard to aggregate it all locally. It’s called Shadowbroker. I’ll admit I leaned way too hard into the "movie hacker" aesthetic for the UI, but the actual pipeline underneath is real. It pulls commercial/military ADS-B, the AIS WebSocket stream (about 25,000+ ships), N2YO satellite telemetry, and GDELT conflict data into a single MapLibre instance. Getting this to run without melting my browser was the hardest part. I'm running this on a laptop…
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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GhostDesk▲88Your invisible AI co-pilot for interviews & meetings
Apr 2026 · ghostdesk-iota.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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Mitigate the use of unauthorized AI tools
2025 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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I noticed the growing security concerns around MCP (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43600192) and built an open source tool that can detect several patterns of tool poisoning attacks, exfiltration channels and cross-origin manipulations. MCP-Shield scans your installed servers (Cursor, Claude Desktop, etc.) and shows what each tool is trying to do at the instruction level, beyond just the API surface. It catches hidden instructions that try to read sensitive files, shadow other tools' behavior, or exfiltrate data. Example of what it detects: - Hidden instructions…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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GhostDesk▲94Real-time AI overlay for meetings & invisible to screenshare
Mar 2026 · ghost-desk.app · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, TL;DR: We’ve launched a free version of our Shadow IT scanner to identify which SaaS apps are used in your company, who uses them, and if they have high-risk OAuth scopes. Philip and I went through YC with AccessOwl in 2022. We started the company because, in our previous roles, we struggled to track all the SaaS apps, users, and granted OAuth scopes. The Shadow IT scanner started as a small feature within AccessOwl, which manages SaaS vendors and user accounts centrally. But a standalone scanner would have made our lives so much easier in our previous roles. So, we thought, why not…
2024 · accessowl.io · its alternatives →
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Zero Assist▲108Real-time AI cheating detection for technical interviews
May 2026 · zeroassist.in · its alternatives →
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OP here. I built this because I recently caught myself almost pasting a block of logs containing AWS keys into Claude. The Problem: I need the reasoning capabilities of cloud models (GPT/Claude/Gemini), but I can't trust myself not to accidentally leak PII or secrets. The Solution: A Chrome extension that acts as a local middleware. It intercepts the prompt and runs a local BERT model (via a Python FastAPI backend) to scrub names, emails, and keys before the request leaves the browser. A few notes up front (to set expectations clearly): Everything runs 100% locally. Regex detection…
Dec 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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OnlyCheat▲122AI desktop assistant, it's silent, invisible and intelligent
2025 · onlycheat.com · its alternatives →
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CtrlAI▲104Transparent proxy that secures AI agents with guardrails
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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ShadowGit▲20Hey HN, I built ShadowGit a while back to automatically commit code every minute to a hidden git repo (.shadowgit.git). Original goal was to easily rollback when AI tools break things. But I discovered something interesting: this minute-by-minute history is perfect context for AI assistants. So I built an MCP server that lets Claude/Cursor query this history using native git commands. The results surprised me: Before: Claude would read my entire codebase repeatedly, burning 15,000+ tokens to debug issues. After: Claude runs `git log --grep="drag"` finds when drag-and-drop worked,…
2025 · shadowgit.com · its alternatives →
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Fix shadowbans on Twitter, Instagram, Email & websites!
2025 · studio--shadowscanai.us-central1.hosted.app · its alternatives →
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Sense AI▲13Shadow Exposure & eNterprise Surveillance for AI
Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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HeimWall▲34Signal, not surveillance. See how your engineers use Cursor, Claude Code, and Copilot: catch leaked secrets, PII, and confidential data, without blocking them or reading their prompts.
Jul 2026 · heimwall.ai · its alternatives →
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AI Risk & Compliance Monitoring, On Autopilot.
2025 · ai-guard-copilot.com · its alternatives →
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AI spend visibility and control for teams
Aug 2026 · shadow-ai-usage.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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Pre-upload safety & shadowban scanner for video creators
Jun 2026 · getshadowguard.com · its alternatives →
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Privacy-first AI: Redact sensitive data before it leaks.
Mar 2026 · shadowaigateway.com · its alternatives →
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AI Safeguard▲14Prevent sensitive data leaks in popular LLM's like ChatGPT
2025 · aisafeguard.co.uk · its alternatives →
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Autonomous AI agent that automates tasks in the shadows.
May 2026 · shadow-os-ai.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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Panguard.AI▲20Open-source malware scanner and runtime guard for AI agents
Jul 2026 · panguard.ai · its alternatives →
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