What is AI Discovery?

AI Discovery is the process of finding and identifying all AI systems, models, and AI related work across your organization, whether they are officially documented or not.

Why does it matter?

Most organizations don't have a single, complete list of every AI system they use or are building. AI projects live in different places: code repositories, cloud platforms, collaboration tools, and internal documents, spread across teams and departments. Without a clear picture of what exists, it is impossible to govern what you can't see.

The Holistic AI Governance Platform automates this process. Rather than relying on manual surveys or team by team reporting, the platform connects to the tools your teams already use and scans them to surface AI related work. Learn more about our approach to AI Discovery & Inventory.

What can the platform connect to?

The platform supports a growing range of integrations across four key categories:

Whether your teams work across one platform or many, the Holistic AI Governance Platform is designed to meet your organization where it already operates. Visit our integrations page to see the full list of supported platforms.

How it works

1. Connect your organization's platforms to the Holistic AI Governance Platform using secure, authenticated integrations
2. Configure the scope of discovery by selecting specific repositories, projects, workspaces, or environments you want to scan
3. The platform scans those connected sources using read only access, meaning it observes and catalogs without modifying, moving, or storing your underlying data
4. It analyzes every item it finds and determines whether it is AI related or not
5. All discovered AI related items are logged as Artifacts in the platform, giving you a centralized, searchable view of AI activity across your organization

Security and data handling

AI Discovery is designed with enterprise security in mind.

Your security policies remain fully intact throughout the discovery process.

Example

A financial services company has dozens of teams building and deploying AI across different cloud environments and code repositories. The compliance team needs to know what AI exists before they can assess any of it. Instead of sending out spreadsheets and waiting weeks for responses, they connect their cloud environments, code repositories, and internal documentation platforms to the Holistic AI Governance Platform. Within hours, the platform surfaces AI projects across the organization, including a credit scoring model that no one had formally reported to the governance team.

See how organizations in financial services use Holistic AI to manage their AI landscape.

Why Holistic AI

Most organizations attempt AI discovery through manual surveys, interviews, or spreadsheet tracking. These approaches are slow, incomplete, and outdated the moment they are finished. The Holistic AI Governance Platform replaces this with continuous, automated discovery that works across all the tools your teams already use. With broad integration support, intelligent classification, enterprise grade security, and read only access by design, it delivers the most comprehensive and secure view of your AI landscape available today.

AI Discovery is the essential first step in any AI governance journey. You can't govern what you don't know about.