Risk Calculator
Your Shadow AI exposure, in dollars.
Built on the IBM 2024 breach-cost report and the 2026 Shadow-AI premium research. Move the sliders, get a number you can take to your CFO.
Your inputs
Industry average: 80% of employees use AI tools. We're counting the AI-active ones.
A row pasted into ChatGPT. A customer list dropped into a summarizer. Auto-tracks employees at ~100/employee/year (a conservative midpoint from our customer base) until you change it.
60% default is the Cyberhaven Q1 2025 industry baseline (the proportion of organizations that have already had an AI data leak).
Expected exposure
E = (R × $160) + $670,000
That's the worst-case dollar exposure if a Shadow-AI breach lands. Multiply by your incident probability for the expected annual loss below.
What Northbeams costs you instead.
For your team size, Sentinel runs about $20,400 / year on annual billing ($9,600 platform fee + $15/user/month). With 3-year prepay it's about $17,760 / year. Discovery (free) is $0 forever. Compliance Evidence Pack bundled into Sentinel (previously $12K-$72K standalone).
Cost ratio: 43× more expensive to do nothing at your inputs (and ~50× with 3-year prepay).
43×
Expected loss ÷ Sentinel cost
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Sources
- $670,000. Shadow AI cost premium added to a breach. IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report 2024.
- $160. Average cost per leaked record. IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report 2024.
- +26.2%. Longer to identify and contain a shadow data breach versus the average. IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report 2024.
- 60%. Organizations that have already had an AI-driven data exposure. Cyberhaven Q1 2025.
- 27 tools / 50-person company. Active unmanaged AI tools per SMB. Northbeams customer base 2026.
- 143 sensitive prompts / month. Per company, sent to public AI. Northbeams customer base 2026.
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