About Kanawai AI
We are the Enterprise AI System of Record
Enterprises are adopting AI faster than they can account for it. Every department is onboarding new models, tools, and copilots, but no single team owns the full picture. Finance cannot attribute the AI invoice. Security cannot inventory what is running. Compliance cannot prove what is governed. Legal cannot demonstrate readiness for new regulation.
Kanawai AI eliminates that gap. We are the system of record for enterprise AI: a single platform that continuously discovers every AI system in your environment, attributes every dollar of spend to a user and a workload, enforces governance policy in real time, and produces the evidence regulators, auditors, and insurers require.
One Platform. Every AI Question Answered.
Each capability of the Kanawai AI platform maps directly to a business outcome that CISOs, CFOs, CLOs, and CIOs are accountable for today.
Shadow AI Discovery
Kanawai continuously discovers every AI tool, plugin, and model endpoint across your environment, including the unsanctioned ones no one reported. Discovery spans network telemetry, identity providers, endpoint agents, SaaS logs, and API gateways.
AI FinOps
Kanawai attributes every dollar of AI token spend to the user, team, and workload that consumed it. Then it identifies where a less expensive model delivers the same outcome, recommending right-sized alternatives by role, department, and task.
AI Governance
Kanawai translates regulatory frameworks and internal policy into machine-enforceable rules. Every AI system is continuously evaluated against those rules, with automated containment, evidence generation, and escalation when a violation is detected.
EU AI Act Compliance
The EU AI Act carries extraterritorial reach and fines of up to 7% of global revenue. Kanawai maps every AI system to its EU AI Act obligations, classifies risk tiers automatically, monitors data exposure across borders, and generates the deployment documentation Articles 13 and 26 require.
Why a System of Record Matters
Every enterprise has a system of record for finance, for identity, for endpoints, and for code. AI is the one category growing faster than all of them, and most organizations still govern it with spreadsheets and quarterly surveys.
Kanawai AI provides a single, continuously updated record of every AI system, every model, every user, every token consumed, and every governance action taken. The same attributed inventory that powers cost optimization also powers compliance. One connection answers the questions finance, security, compliance, and legal are all asking.
Complete AI inventory, risk posture, and containment in under 60 seconds
100% spend attribution and model right-sizing across every AI provider
Signed evidence artifacts and regulatory mapping for EU AI Act and beyond
Single pane of glass across sanctioned and unsanctioned AI adoption
Meet our Founders
Kanawai AI was founded by a team with over 30 years of combined experience in law, diplomacy, enterprise sales, and mission-critical security architecture. We have a deep understanding of enterprise AI, compliance requirements, and why existing solutions fall short.
Learn more about the Kanawai AI Founders, Nicolle Cumberland and Rob Waters.
Kanawai AI Corporation is proudly a Native Hawaiian and Women-Founded company.