How to Build an AI Asset Inventory
Kovrr, Wednesday, July 8th, 2026
An AI asset inventory is essential governance infrastructure to surface shadow AI and assign accountability.
Kovrr argues most organizations pursuing AI governance lack visibility into their actual AI systems, and an AI asset inventory is essential infrastructure documenting every tool, including shadow AI deployed outside approval channels.
The inventory should capture vendor details, deployment methods, business functions, data types, regulatory classifications, and third-party dependencies, which matters under the EU AI Act's risk tiers.
Discovering shadow AI requires multiple methods such as network traffic analysis, identity integrations, SaaS monitoring, and browser extension tracking, since single approaches miss different tool types.