Anonymized stats from the Northbeams customer base. What 27 tools, 143 sensitive prompts a month, and the 26.2% slower-to-detect penalty for shadow data actually look like in practice. Refreshed quarterly so the picture stays current.
First publication: Q3 2026 · All numbers aggregated, no per-customer attribution
01 / What you'll see in Q3 2026
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The single tool that showed up in the most workspaces for the first time. Tells you what's about to land in your team's browsers and on their laptops.
Q3 sample placeholder. Example: "Cursor: appeared in 38% of customer workspaces for the first time this quarter."
A · 02
The center of the distribution, not an average. Useful for benchmarking your own inventory after install.
Q3 sample placeholder. Example: "Median: 31 active AI tools (up from 27 in Q2)."
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The tool customers most often mark Blocked, with a one-line reason. Useful for "should we block X?" decisions.
Q3 sample placeholder. Example: "ChatGPT (consumer): blocked by 67% of customers; primary reason cited is credentials and customer-PII paste."
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Which categories of sensitive content the on-device classifier is catching most often this quarter.
Q3 sample placeholder. Example: "Top 3 caught: customer PII (38%), API credentials (29%), source code (18%)."
A · 05
How long it takes a typical IT lead to make their first policy decision after seeing the Discovery Report.
Q3 sample placeholder. Example: "Median: 2.4 days from install to first Blocked policy."
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How the top-100 enterprise AI tool catalogue moved this quarter. New tools added, old ones retired.
Q3 sample placeholder. Example: "92% to 94%; added Galileo AI, Atropos Health; retired one deprecated tool."
02 / What the publication looks like
A working sketch of how Q3's report will be laid out. Real numbers ship in July 2026.
SAMPLE FORMAT · NOT REAL DATA
Methodology: aggregated across all paying customers. No per-customer attribution. Minimum cohort size: 25 workspaces per metric.
One email per quarter. The numbers, the methodology, and a one-paragraph "what changed". Unsubscribe anytime.
First send: July 2026. No partial-quarter previews; we wait until the data is solid.