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AI Governance & Shadow AI Discovery

Discover every AI integration, including Shadow AI, directly in source code. Trace which sensitive data flows into LLM prompts before deployment. Keep your RoPA, AI inventory, and DPIA in sync with what your applications actually do.

HoundDog.ai discovers AI integrations from code: OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Semantic Kernel, LangChain, CrewAI, LlamaIndex, and PydanticAI imports detected as the Discover, Trace, and Guard pipeline
The Problem

Why AI Processing Activities Fall Out of Sync

Most AI inventories, RoPA entries, and DPIAs fall out of sync for one simple reason. They are created after systems are designed, AI integrations are live, and data flows are already in motion.

Manual PIA Workflows Do Not Scale

  • Assessments are completed after architectural decisions are locked in, turning the PIA into a retrospective exercise rather than a meaningful risk control
  • Features are deployed continuously, integrations are added late in the cycle, and AI capabilities are introduced incrementally, so questionnaire-driven assessments lag behind by design
  • As systems change, documentation does not, and the initial assessment quickly drifts from how the application actually behaves
Paperwork, not a preventive control.

GRC Platforms

  • Provide blank RoPA, PIA, and DPIA templates, like this one from Vanta, and rely on privacy teams to manually interview engineers and collect data flows
  • The process must be repeated every time code changes, making it slow and unreliable at scale
Ships the template, not the data flows.

Production-Focused Privacy Tools

  • Infer data flows only after applications are live, missing shadow AI and third-party integrations added directly in code
  • Provide partial visibility into real data movement, so teams respond to symptoms rather than the root cause of privacy risk
  • By the time an issue is detected, data may already be logged, stored, shared with vendors, or sent to AI systems outside your control
Reactive detection is no longer enough.
The result

Engineering Fatigue

Never ending questionnaires flood engineering with every release.

Missed AI & Third-Party Flows

Data Processing Agreement violations at best, GDPR fines at worst.

Damage Already Done

Sensitive data leaks into logs and spreads across ingestion systems before anyone is aware.

How It Works

Discover, Trace, and Govern AI Integrations from Code

HoundDog.ai operates inside the development pipeline, tracing how sensitive data actually flows to AI systems as code is written and changed. Scans run locally. Your code never leaves your machine.

1

Scan Code as It Is Written

Integrates with IDE plugins for VS Code, IntelliJ, and Cursor, and with CI pipelines. Analyzes source code to map sensitive data flows across logs, storage, APIs, third-party and AI integrations, including hidden or "Shadow" integrations.

The taint-flow static analysis detects sensitive data elements by variable, method, function, and field name, tracing them through intermediate transformations across files, functions, and procedures regardless of nesting depth, and flagging them when they reach a sink, whether it is a controlled sink like a database or a high-risk one like an LLM prompt.

Source code defines how data flows into files, logs, databases, APIs, AI prompts, and third-party integrations
2

Trace Sensitive Data Flows to AI

Automated data flow mapping shows exactly which sensitive data elements reach each data sink per repository, from logs and AI services like OpenAI to third parties like Slack, Stripe, and Twilio, with every flow rated safe or risky.

  • More than 100 sensitive data types supported, spanning traditional PII per GDPR's definition, PHI per HIPAA's definition, CHD per PCI's definition, and auth tokens and secrets, which can pose a serious data breach risk when exposed in logs.
  • More than 1,000 integrations supported, including direct and indirect AI SDKs, many of which are embedded in code without an established Data Processing Agreement, and third-party integrations spanning monitoring, SIEM, sales and marketing, payment, and many other categories.
Automated data map by data sink showing which PII and sensitive data elements flow to logs, OpenAI, Slack, Stripe, and Twilio per repository
3

Keep AI Inventory and RoPA Current

New AI integrations and the categories of sensitive data they receive become suggested edits in your Org RoPA and AI inventory, each traceable to the code that generated it, with the privacy team reviewing and approving every change.

Auto-generate Privacy Impact Assessments and Data Protection Impact Assessments pre-populated with detected AI data flows and risks, aligned with GDPR, the EU AI Act, HIPAA, and other frameworks. Because assessments are grounded in actual processing behavior, they accurately document which AI systems receive data and which categories of personal and sensitive data are involved.

Suggested edit to the AI inventory and RoPA subprocessor list with DPA status for OpenAI, LangChain, Amplitude, and other AI providers, queued for privacy team review
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Block Risky AI Flows Before Deployment

Bake your AI policies into the pipeline by customizing the types of data allowed per AI provider and blocking unsafe flows when they are introduced in pull requests as part of your CI pipeline. Default allowlists are available out of the box, incorporating the standard data types expected per provider, e.g. an internal LLM endpoint's allowlist differs from a public AI API.

Unapproved AI data sharing is addressed while context is fresh and remediation costs are low. Preventive enforcement turns governance from advisory documents into operational controls.

Data sink rule with trust mode and customizable safe data elements allowlist applied to an external integration
See It in Action

AI Governance, Grounded in Code-based Evidence

Watch a live demo of HoundDog.ai discovering AI integrations from source code, tracing PHI and PII into LLM prompts, and turning each finding into evidence privacy and security teams can act on, before anything ships.

Demo · Privacy by Design for AI Apps

Discover Shadow AI and prove what data your application sends to LLMs

A walkthrough of the scanner running against a real codebase, surfacing AI integrations, tracing sensitive data into prompts, and producing the artifacts privacy teams need to keep AI processing activities in sync.

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For Privacy Teams

Code-based evidence for GDPR data maps, RoPA & privacy reviews.

At development speed. Prevent risks instead of documenting them after the fact, with privacy teams in control: the engine proposes, the DPO approves.

Discover

Every integration, straight from the code

All third-party and AI integrations detected directly in source code, including Shadow AI, whether the data flows through an SDK or API, with 1,000+ integrations covered out of the box.

OpenAI
Anthropic
LangChain
Salesforce
Datadog
HubSpot

LLM Prompts
Third-Party SDKs
Logs
Files
Local Storage
Many Others
Trace

Follow sensitive data into every sink

Trace 100+ sensitive data types (PII, PHI, CHD, auth tokens) across code paths and into every data sink, including logs, storage, APIs, third-party, and AI integrations.


Verify & Suggest

RoPA that keeps itself current

Keep your RoPA updated as new categories of personal data and subprocessors are introduced, detected directly from source code.

Validate design-phase privacy reviews with code-based evidence before code is pushed to production.

Suggest
Org RoPA updates
Verify
Alignment with PIA
Block
Risky data flows
Catch
Log leaks early
AI
Customer Trust

Build Customer Trust Through Transparent AI Data Handling

  • Generate evidence based data maps that show where sensitive data is collected, processed, and shared, including through AI and third party integrations.
  • Auto generate audit ready Privacy Impact Assessments (PIA) and Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIA) pre-populated with detected data flows and privacy risks, aligned with GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, and other regulatory frameworks.
  • Keep your Org RoPA current with new data flows and subprocessors surfaced as suggested edits, with the privacy team reviewing and approving every change.
  • Give privacy teams continuous visibility into AI processing activities without surveys or manual discovery.
  • No production monitoring required. No retroactive cleanup. No guessing.
HoundDog.ai detecting Medical History PHI as RISKY and visualizing the data flow from the data element, through 1_Patient_Management.py:330, into OpenAI tagged as a third-party AI service
Key Differentiators

What Makes HoundDog.ai Different

Purpose built for teams that need AI governance grounded in real data flows detected directly from source code, not surveys or assumptions.

Data map of critical sensitive data flows showing Auth Token, Passport Number, and Visa Information flowing into the Acme service

Code-Level Data Flow Intelligence

Detect and map sensitive data flows directly from source code across APIs, services, and third party integrations without relying on surveys, spreadsheets, or privacy tools that miss hidden integrations and SDKs.

HoundDog.ai tracing Medical History PHI through patient_context into a LangChain SystemMessage and an llm.invoke call sent to OpenAI

Built for AI & LLM Workloads

Discover AI SDKs embedded in code and detect sensitive data flows to LLM prompts and external AI APIs before your apps go live.

Critical auth token exposure finding with compliance framework tags and the console.log code segment leaking apiKey and apiSecret

Prevent Risk Before Deployment

Catch privacy issues during development and code review, not after data has already been logged, shared, or leaked.

Org RoPA review awaiting approval with a suggested edit to categories of personal data generated from code scanning

Compliance from Real Data Flows

Automatically generate audit ready PIA and DPIA documentation, and keep your RoPA current through scanner suggested edits, all from detected code level data movement so compliance stays up to date as systems evolve.

Govern AI With Evidence, Not Assumptions

Detect every AI integration, trace sensitive data into LLM prompts, and keep your AI inventory and RoPA in sync with what your applications actually do.