EP 61: "Shadow AI" — And No One's Watching | Rafi Khardalian, Actualyze AI
Inside AsembleAI: DeepTech, AI & Science by Mac & Sam
Episode notes
This episode was recorded live from the Ai4 conference podcast pavilion, where host Mac Goswami sat down with Rafi Khardalian — CEO & co-founder of Actualyze AI, and a former technology leader at Cisco who helped build its container and Kubernetes platforms — about the governance, security, and orchestration layer most enterprises are missing.
What's Covered:
The Foundation for Enterprise AI — Rafi lays out why a patchwork of point solutions doesn't cut it, and how Actualyze unifies governance and security across every model and provider — at the inference level.
The "Shadow AI" Problem — Employees signing up for AI tools on their own, with no governance, no visibility, no controls. Why fragmentation is a company-wide risk, not a per-team one.
One Endpoint to Gover ...