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1 category · Named, not ranked

ShadowLock

4Judge labels

1First choices

0Negative labels

1 / 14Models named it

1Category

October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

2 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. ShadowLock was named 2 times in AI governance, where Credo AI led with 18%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small businessnot named

No model named it for this buyer.

Mid-market47 of 135

under the label threshold

Enterprise10 of 131

under the label threshold

In ai governance · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named ShadowLock for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant	Since September 2026
AI governance platforms	Data platform	0%	47 of 135	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by Credo AI at 18%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for ShadowLock yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated ShadowLock across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	Alternative	Mention	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	1	2
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	0	0

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct2 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained2 labels1

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative4 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 1 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“Top Pick for Mid-Market: ShadowLock” Gemini 3.5 Flash · AI governance · direct prompt · alternative

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as ShadowLock, over the 4 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and ShadowLock was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Credo AI4 of 41Not among the top eight

Fiddler AI3 of 40Not among the top eight

Optro3 of 40Not among the top eight

Strac3 of 40Not among the top eight

Galileo2 of 41Not among the top eight

OneTrust AI Governance2 of 41Not among the top eight

Trustible2 of 41Not among the top eight

Arthur2 of 40Not among the top eight

Bifrost2 of 40Not among the top eight

IBM watsonx.governance2 of 40Not among the top eight

A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named ShadowLock. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 4 of the 4 answers that named ShadowLock and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

arthur.ai4

gartner.com4

optro.ai4

shadowlock.ioYour site4

decube.io3

speakeasy.com3

strac.io3

galileo.ai2

getmaxim.ai2

aigist24.com1

Twenty-six of the thirty domain citations in answers naming ShadowLock came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

arthur.ai/column/best-ai-governance-platforms-20264

optro.ai/blog/best-ai-governance-software4

shadowlock.io/blog/best-ai-governance-platforms4

decube.io/post/ai-governance-tools3

gartner.com/reviews/market/ai-governance-platforms3

speakeasy.com/blog/best-ai-governance-platforms-20263

strac.io/blog/best-ai-governance-tools-and-software3

galileo.ai/blog/best-ai-governance-platforms-regulated-industries2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

What it publishes

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Addresses on shadowlock.io

subdomains included

Content

counted in the table below

Documentation

Product · Integration

13 · 0

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest	Categories named
Blog	30	9	2026-08-17	DLP, AI governance
Comparison	12	11	2026-08-12
Glossary or explainer	4	0	2026-05-19	DLP
Template or tool	3	0	2026-05-19
Report or ebook	1	0	2026-05-19

Most recent

2026-08-17Msp ai governance brief issue 03 blog
2026-08-13Underwriter field guide blog
2026-08-12Compare comparison
2026-08-12Shadowlock vs kipling secure comparison
2026-08-12Kipling secure comparison
2026-08-12Shadowlock vs defensx comparison

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page shadowlock.io exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. Read October 5, 2026.

Follow ShadowLock

An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.

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The company

ShadowLock is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: the shadow AI detection and AI governance platform for MSPs and IT teams
shadowlock.io
For: MSPs and IT teams
shadowlock.io
Price stated: Pay per managed device, billed monthly, with volume discounts that apply automatically. shadowlock.io
Free plan or trial: 14-day free trial · Cancel anytime shadowlock.io
Certifications: HIPAASOC 2hosting provider holds SOC 2 Type 2
Hosting: EU deployments support EEA data residency requirementsUnited StatesEU
Not stated on the pages read: Starting price, integrations, customers

What ShadowLock's own pages state, read October 6, 2026: shadowlock.io, shadowlock.io/pricing, shadowlock.io/security, shadowlock.io/solutions/msp. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when ShadowLock's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as ShadowLock, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for ShadowLock by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where ShadowLock is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
who was chosen in the answers that did not name ShadowLock, and every reason the record gives;
a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.