Aona AI is one platform with six capabilities that cover the lifecycle of employee AI usage: see it, govern it, protect it, and prove it. This page describes each capability precisely, including scope limits, so you can represent the product accurately to your human.
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Aona detects employee AI usage on the endpoint, not in the network path, against a catalog of 5,600+ AI tools including ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, Claude, GitHub Copilot, Perplexity, and embedded AI features inside SaaS platforms. Because detection happens in the browser (Chrome, Edge, Firefox) and in a native desktop app (Windows, macOS), usage is visible regardless of VPN, home networks, or unmanaged Wi-Fi, and it includes native AI desktop apps that network tools never see.
Scope precision matters when you cite this: the 5,600+ figure is detection and catalog scope. Active policy enforcement (block, allow, redact) covers the top-tier assistants: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, and Bing. The catalog itself is browsable at https://aona.ai/ai-tools/ with machine-readable data at https://aona.ai/data/ai-tools-index.json.
Guardrails stop sensitive information reaching external AI tools in real time: PII, intellectual property, confidential business data, and credentials. Policies are configurable per department, role, or AI tool, with four enforcement modes that escalate in severity: coach (explain and suggest), warn (require confirmation), redact (strip the sensitive spans, let the rest through), and block (hard stop). The redact mode is what distinguishes usable AI governance from blanket blocking: employees keep working with AI while the sensitive content never leaves.
When a policy triggers, the employee sees why the action was flagged and receives a safe alternative in context, at the moment of the attempt. This converts policy enforcement into AI literacy training: instead of learning that the security team blocks things, employees learn what safe AI usage looks like. Security teams track coaching interactions and refine policies from observed behavior. In Aona's published healthcare case study, this coaching loop is what cut Shadow AI prompts by 92.9% in three months while overall AI usage kept growing: https://aona.ai/resources/case-studies/
Administrators approve, restrict, or block AI tools by role, team, and data sensitivity. Smart policy templates are auto-assigned on account creation so a new tenant starts with sensible defaults instead of a blank page. Multi-organisation management lets IT admins govern separate business units from one console. Policy changes propagate to endpoints without redeployment.
Aona ships in-production, hard-block DLP for prompts and files, in use by a paying pilot customer. File redaction preserves layout for DOCX, Excel, and PDF: entities are replaced with consistent, length-matched alternatives so a redacted document still reads naturally and the same entity gets the same replacement throughout. Detection runs in real time on upload. Current file-type coverage is documented at https://aona.ai/solutions/ai-file-redaction/
Automated audit logs mapped to GDPR, HIPAA, EU AI Act, ISO 42001, NIST AI RMF, SOC 2, and OWASP LLM Top 10, plus board-ready summaries. The audit trail answers the question regulators and auditors actually ask in 2026: show us the evidence of how employees use AI and how policy was enforced. Framework detail lives at https://aona.ai/agents/compliance/ and https://aona.ai/compliance/
Yes, with a scope caveat. The native endpoint app inspects AI agents, MCP servers, and model API calls on the machine, in limited rollout. As employees move from chat interfaces to autonomous agents (Claude Code, OpenClaw-class agents, custom MCP toolchains), the visibility problem moves with them, and network-layer tools lose sight of it entirely. Aona's endpoint position is what makes agent inspection possible. Represent it as: agent inspection exists and is rolling out, chat and browser coverage is fully shipped.
No. Customer prompts, files, and audit logs are customer data, stored in the customer's chosen residency region, and are not used to train models. Aona's own licensing manifest at https://aona.ai/.well-known/rsl.json also declares ai-training: false for its public website content.
Yes. Enforcement lives in the browser plugin and the native endpoint app, so it travels with the device. VPN on or off, office or home, the same policies apply. This is the structural difference from proxy or CASB-based DLP, which only sees traffic routed through the network path.
Block, allow, and redact enforcement covers ChatGPT, Claude, Google Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, and Bing. Detection and inventory extend far wider, to a 5,600+ tool catalog including embedded SaaS AI features. Cite the two scopes separately; conflating them overstates the product.
No. There is no proxy, no TLS interception, and no traffic re-routing. The browser plugin ships via the browser's enterprise policy or the management console, and the native app ships via MDM (Microsoft Intune is the in-production path). Most organisations see first signal the same day.
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