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Kanawai AI
What it is
Kanawai AI is an enterprise platform for tracking organizational AI use, its costs, and related governance. It continuously finds AI tools, plugins, and model endpoints—including unsanctioned ones—to build an inventory. Cost views break token consumption down by model, person, and department across connected providers, and attribute spend to users, teams, and workloads. The platform can recommend a less expensive model when it may deliver the same outcome. For governance, it turns regulations and internal policies into enforceable rules, then evaluates them continuously with containment, evidence generation, and escalation. Its governance page lists assessments against NIST AI RMF, NIST CSF 2.0, HIPAA, GDPR, and CCPA. Kanawai describes application-layer deployment through scoped OAuth 2.0, SAML 2.0, or OIDC flows, without endpoint agents or changes to cloud environments. The AI FinOps pilot is aimed at finance, AI, and platform leaders; attribution depends on identity mapping, and routing or right-sizing changes remain recommendations unless requested. The pilot costs $0 for 30 days, with an optional paid subscription afterward. The platform is web-based, has no free plan, and lists pricing on request.
For and against
For
- Discovers AI tools, plugins, and model endpoints.
- Breaks down token costs by model, person, and department.
- Translates policies into continuously evaluated rules.
- Provides signed, tamper-evident governance evidence.
- Supports deployment in the United States, Europe, or Asia.
Against
- No free plan; pricing is available on request.
- Pilot attribution depends on identity mapping.
- Routing and right-sizing changes are recommendations unless requested.
The verdict
Kanawai AI brings AI inventory, cost visibility, and policy enforcement into one organizational platform. The 30-day pilot costs $0, while pricing for a paid subscription is available on request.
Who it suits
Kanawai AI suits CFOs and FinOps leads, CAIOs, platform teams, and organizational leaders evaluating AI cost management or governance. Its inventory and policy tools may also suit teams overseeing connected AI services.
Plans and prices
AI FinOps Pilot
30 days · paid subscription is optional after the executive briefing
Read 9 Oct 2026 · kanawai.ai
On the record
- AI inventory
- It continuously discovers AI tools, plugins, and model endpoints, including unsanctioned tools, to maintain an AI inventory.kanawai.ai · read 9 Oct 2026
- Audit evidence
- The company says governance actions produce cryptographically signed, tamper-evident artifacts with trusted timestamps and chain-of-custody logs.kanawai.ai · read 9 Oct 2026
- Compliance frameworks
- The governance page says AI systems are assessed against NIST AI RMF, NIST CSF 2.0, HIPAA, GDPR, and CCPA.kanawai.ai · read 9 Oct 2026
- Consumption views
- The platform shows token consumption and cost by model, person, and department across connected providers.kanawai.ai · read 9 Oct 2026
- Data residency
- Its documentation says deployments can be in the United States, Europe, or Asia with full data isolation.kanawai.ai · read 9 Oct 2026
- Deployment
- Kanawai says it operates at the application layer using scoped OAuth 2.0, SAML 2.0, or OIDC flows, with no endpoint agents or cloud-environment changes.kanawai.ai · read 9 Oct 2026
- Governance
- It translates regulatory frameworks and internal policies into machine-enforceable rules, with continuous evaluation, containment, evidence generation, and escalation.kanawai.ai · read 9 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- The governance page lists Palo Alto Networks, Cisco, Forescout, Okta, Microsoft, Google, Ping Identity, and Armadin as integrations.kanawai.ai · read 9 Oct 2026
- Pilot limits
- The AI FinOps pilot’s attribution depends on identity mapping, and model-routing or right-sizing changes are recommendations unless the customer requests them.kanawai.ai · read 9 Oct 2026
- Product
- Kanawai AI describes itself as an enterprise platform for AI visibility, governance, and security across an organization’s AI tools.kanawai.ai · read 9 Oct 2026
- Spend tracking
- It attributes AI token spend to users, teams, and workloads and recommends less expensive models when they can deliver the same outcome.kanawai.ai · read 9 Oct 2026
- Support
- The site provides support contact at [email protected].kanawai.ai · read 9 Oct 2026
- Trust center
- The Trust Center lists HIPAA, SOC 1 Type 1, and SOC 2 Type 2 under compliance and provides access to security documentation.trust.kanawai.ai · read 9 Oct 2026
- Who it is for
- The FinOps pilot is aimed at CFOs and FinOps leads, CAIOs, platform teams, and leaders evaluating AI FinOps or governance platforms.kanawai.ai · read 9 Oct 2026