Shadowquery
An opt-in governance inventory for finance, operations and marketing teams that records home-grown data tools, their access and owners, then prepares an evidence packet for formal IT and security review.
The supplied research confirms enterprise shadow-IT discovery products sold to administrators and finds no product aimed at the functional builder seeking a safe path to approval. The buyer inversion is distinct but the moat is intentionally low. Shadowquery must not covertly scan coworkers, evade organizational policy or let a team-controlled log masquerade as independent audit evidence. Discovery is permissioned, the packet is a request rather than a blessing, and IT, security, privacy and data owners retain approval authority.
The finance, operations, marketing, analytics, or program leader whose team builds internal dashboards and automations outside a formal software-delivery process.
Inventory and packet generation scale, though organizational mappings and review support vary.
Builders want protection and speed while the organization needs enough truth and authority to govern real data risk.
Tool creation is easier, but no newly removed organizational approval barrier is proven.
The builder-side buyer inversion is unaddressed in the supplied market and creates a clear bottom-up governance wedge.
The moat is low, auto-discovery can become surveillance and incumbent administration products can add voluntary intake.
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