Somewhere in your company right now, a team is calling an LLM you've never vetted, sending customer data to a region your legal team hasn't cleared, on a bill no one is watching. Multiply that by every team shipping AI, and "which models are we using?" becomes a question nobody can answer — until an incident, an invoice, or an auditor forces it.
The problem: shadow models, silent cost, hidden residency risk
Models are the easiest part of the AI stack to adopt and the hardest to see. A one-line config change swaps GPT for an open model on someone's GPU. A prompt sends regulated data to a US endpoint. A new version ships with different behavior overnight. Each is invisible to Security, Finance and Legal — until it isn't.
Why it matters to the enterprise
Three stakeholders care, and today none of them have answers. Legal & Compliance need to know where data goes and which models are sanctioned (EU AI Act, data-residency rules). Finance needs to see spend per model before it surprises the quarter. Security needs to block unvetted or compromised models fast. A model inventory is the shared source of truth that lets all three say "yes" or "no" with confidence.
"Customer data may only use EU-hosted, approved models" is a great policy — but only if you can see, and enforce, which models your agents actually call.
How AuthSpoke does it
- A governed record per model — provider, version, hosting type (cloud / self-hosted / on-prem) and data residency.
- Approval workflow — every model is approved, pending, unapproved or blocked, with a risk level you set.
- Attribution & cost — see how many agents depend on each model and the monthly cost it's driving.
- Central control — approve, block or pin versions in one place; an event is recorded every time, feeding audit.
Model usage is the fastest-growing line item most enterprises don't track. Seeing cost and agent-count per model turns "why did our AI bill triple?" into a dashboard you check, not a postmortem you write.
What you get
- One inventory of every LLM in use
- Data-residency & hosting visibility
- Central approve / block / pin
- Cost & usage per model
- Kill shadow-model usage
- Evidence for AI-Act & vendor reviews
Govern every model your AI touches
Inventory your models, set approvals and residency rules, and put cost and risk on one screen.