Lemon Governance

Shadow IT happens. You can see it and stop it.

Lemon Governance detects unsanctioned tools across your browsers, segments your users by team or role, and redirects every employee to the right validated alternative, the moment they need it.

✓Real-time Shadow IT detection ✓User segmentation by team, role, geography ✓Deploy in 48h, no new infrastructure
Lemon Governance — Shadow IT detection on ChatGPT

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The problem

Employees pick the tools. IT picks up the pieces.

Free SaaS tools, ChatGPT prompts, unsanctioned plugins. By the time IT finds out, data is already out, licences are duplicated, and compliance has cracks.

Without Lemon
 
You don't know what your teams use
Free SaaS, AI tools, browser plugins. Every employee picks their own stack, and IT only finds out when there's a problem.
 
Data leaving through the wrong tool
Confidential data pasted into a random chatbot or free transcription tool. Not malicious, just convenient. And impossible to audit after the fact.
 
Duplicate tools, paid in triplicate
Three different teams paying for three different note-taking apps. None of them know about each other. None of them are on contract.
 
Compliance gaps you discover too late
GDPR, HDS, ISO. Every unsanctioned tool is a potential audit finding. You need to know before the auditor does.
With Lemon
 
Every unsanctioned tool, surfaced live
Lemon detects every web app and AI tool your teams actually visit. Ranked by usage, flagged by sensitivity.
 
Redirect, the moment it matters
Land an in-app message on the user opening the unsanctioned tool. "Use this approved alternative instead." Friction-free. 48h · Avg. deployment
 
Segment access by team or role
Marketing gets Canva, Sales doesn't. Finance gets DocuSign, Engineering doesn't. Granular and reversible. 37% inactive · Gartner
 
Audit-ready compliance reports
Every tool, every user, every usage log. Export the data your auditor will ask for, before they ask. GDPR · HDS · ISO 27001
How it works

Detect. Segment. Redirect.

From the first unsanctioned visit to the right approved tool, every step of governance happens inside the browser.

1

Detect what's being used

The Lemon browser extension maps every web app and AI tool your teams open, including the ones IT never approved. No agent on machines, no engineering team.

Browser extension Shadow IT detection
2

Segment by team and role

Set who gets access to what. Marketing can use Canva, Engineering cannot. Updates roll out instantly across every browser.

Segmentation Role-based Team-based
3

Redirect to the right tool

When an employee opens the wrong tool, Lemon nudges them to the approved one. No tickets, no friction, no policy emails nobody reads.

In-app redirect Audit logs
Browser extension

One lightweight extension, every browser, every machine.

Lemon Governance ships as a browser extension. Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari. It deploys through your MDM in a few clicks, no agent on machines, no integration project.

From that single extension, you detect Shadow IT, segment users, push notifications and redirect to approved tools. One install, full coverage of every web app your teams open.

  • Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari supported
  • Deploy through your MDM, no agent on machines
  • Covers every web app and AI tool, sanctioned or not
  • Lightweight, no performance impact on the browser
Lemon Governance — Shadow IT detection in browser
IT governance dashboard

A single dashboard for your entire software ecosystem.

Every detected tool, every user, every policy decision in one view. Ranked by usage, flagged by risk, ready for action. The governance command centre your IT and security teams actually use.

Approve, redirect or block in one click. Policies roll out instantly across every browser in your organisation. Audit logs and compliance exports come built in.

  • Single view of every web app and AI tool in use
  • Risk-flagged by data sensitivity and compliance
  • Approve, redirect or block from one place
  • Audit logs and compliance exports built in
Lemon Governance — IT governance dashboard
The Lemon platform

Three products. One goal.

Adoption creates the guides. Analytics tells you if they're working. Governance makes sure people are on the right tools to begin with.

Lemon Adoption

In-app guidance

Step-by-step guides, tooltips, push messages and contextual help directly inside your business software.

  • No-code editor, up in 3h
  • 300+ applications
  • Segmentation by profile and role
  • Multilingual: EN, FR, ES, PT, IT
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Lemon Analytics

Usage analytics

See how your teams actually use their tools. Catch friction before it costs you anything.

  • Application usage heatmaps
  • Process completion and drop-off
  • Real-time adoption KPIs
  • Licence waste and estimated savings
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Lemon Governance

Application governance

Shadow IT, unused licences, compliance. Take back control of your software ecosystem.

  • Automated Shadow IT detection
  • Redirect to approved alternatives
  • GDPR & application security
  • Deploy in 48h, no new infrastructure
FAQ

Frequently asked questions about Shadow IT.

What is Shadow IT and why does it matter to organisations? +

Shadow IT refers to any software, SaaS or application used by employees without IT's knowledge or approval. In 2025, generative AI tools, no-code platforms and personal cloud storage have dramatically accelerated the problem, creating GDPR compliance gaps, invisible SaaS spend and data breach risks that only surface after an incident.

How can Lemon Learning help reduce Shadow IT without blocking productivity? +

Rather than silently blocking access, Lemon Governance surfaces a contextual message explaining the reason and showing the approved alternative, so the employee is redirected, not stopped. Productivity is preserved because the compliant alternative is one click away, with a clear explanation of why it matters.

Does Lemon Learning detect when employees try to use unapproved applications? +

Yes. The browser extension deployed via MDM recognises when an employee visits any domain flagged in your IT governance catalogue, regardless of how they got there, whether via direct URL, search result or a link in an email. The detection is real time and requires no network proxy or additional infrastructure.

Can we redirect users to approved tools and explain the compliance reasons? +

Yes, this is the core feature. For every blocked or monitored tool, you define the approved alternative and write a customisable message explaining why. You can tailor this per tool, per team and per language. Employees see a message relevant to their context, not a generic corporate block page.

Do we need to replace our LMS, change our systems or integrate complex security tools? +

No. Lemon Governance can be deployed independently. If you are already a Lemon Adoption customer, it activates on your existing extension with no additional infrastructure. It does not require changes to your LMS, HRIS or security stack and does not replace your existing CASB or DLP tools.

Get started

Take back control. Without the friction.

In a 30-minute personalised demo, we deploy the Lemon Governance extension on your stack and show you exactly what Shadow IT looks like in your organisation.

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