Free-Tier Exposure

Shadow AI is the most common governance failure and the least technical. Staff with a deadline and no sanctioned tool paste content into whatever is available, and the organization discovers afterwards that regulated material has been submitted to a consumer service under terms nobody reviewed. Policy alone does not solve it, because the underlying driver is that the sanctioned path is slower or absent. The durable remedy is making the governed route the easier one.

Centralpoint's governed surface is intended to be the path of least resistance: an assistant already scoped to what the user may see, already carrying the organization's rules, and answering from its actual corpus rather than from a general model's recollection. Where consumption is metered and answers are cached, the governed route is also the faster one for repeated questions.