Sridhar Ramachandran · CEO & Co-founder · July 2026
Everyone wants a Jarvis. The Chief of Staff (CoS) prompt is the most popular prompt search right now, and it's easy to understand the quest. Our work-life balance needs as much support as it can get, so why not use AI in the form of a CoS? And these prompts are becoming active agents that run hourly or daily, not one-off chats.
However, when an employee plugs a CoS agent into a company database or a customer ticketing queue to "speed things up," they aren't just boosting productivity. They're building unmonitored data conduits that are primed for leaking enterprise data.
These systems process context, store short-term memory, and touch sensitive data without audit trails or governance guardrails. If things go wrong, they can go very wrong.
CISOs and compliance leaders: how are you auditing the invisible decisions your agents are making between the prompt and the execution?
This is the Shadow AI problem in miniature: the agent nobody officially approved, running with real database access, on a cadence nobody's watching. It doesn't have to stay invisible. Cortega routes AI traffic from these same endpoint tools through a governed gateway, so a personal CoS agent gets the same identity attribution, sensitive-data detection, and audit trail as anything your platform team deployed on purpose. Our Shadow AI page covers how discovery and enforcement work together on traffic like this.
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