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The sprawl became invisible
By 2024 the average enterprise was running 250+ SaaS apps with shadow IT and shadow AI multiplying weekly. Existing tools shipped marketplace logos and dashboard glamour — not depth on the systems that mattered.
About
Make SaaS governance honest in the AI era.
CenseCloud is a focused platform — not a marketplace — built so the systems your business runs on become visible, accountable and predictable. We answer one question well: who's using what, at what risk, at what cost?
Built around identity, not URLs5 system classes · zero marketplace fictionKVKK-first, by architecture
Why we exist
The governance gap got bigger. The tools got shinier.
We started CenseCloud after watching the same pattern across enterprises: SaaS sprawl outgrowing the visibility tools meant to govern it, while compliance frameworks kept raising the floor.
02
The stakes changed overnight
KVKK, GDPR, the EU AI Act, ISO 27001 and NIST CSF stopped being a footnote. Auditors started asking concrete questions: who has access, since when, with what scope, where's the evidence?
03
We chose depth over breadth
Five system classes. Identity-centric. Read-only by default. In-network where it matters. KVKK as a dedicated risk layer — not a bolt-on. CenseRisk for governance. CenseCost for what's being paid for. One inventory.
What we believe
Six principles that show up in every commit.
These aren't marketing lines. They're the architectural decisions that constrain what we'll ship and what we won't.
P1
Identity-centric, not surface-centric
Every action ties to a real user, a real device, a real auth context. Inventories built on URLs alone are noise — they can't tell you who has access or who lost it.
P2
Depth over breadth
We integrate with 5 system classes — Identity, Endpoint, SaaS, AI, Compliance — and ship real depth on each. We won't list 700 logos to look big. Marketplaces sell tiles; we sell capability.
P3
Read-only by default
Our connectors never write to your AD, your IdP, or your storage. Read access only. The connector mode IS the privacy guarantee, not a setting you can flip.
P4
Architecture is the policy
We don't proxy your traffic. We don't inspect content. The architectural decisions ARE the privacy guarantees — not features we could remove tomorrow.
P5
KVKK-first, not bolt-on
Bilingual product end-to-end. KVKK is a dedicated risk layer next to GDPR — same audit weight, same export depth. Tenant-scoped AES-256-GCM encryption. Audit log from connect to revoke.
P6
Honest status, no marketplace fiction
Every connector ships with documented status: GA, Review, or Roadmap. We don't market what we haven't shipped. The roadmap is real; the GA is real; we don't blur them.
And what we don't do
Discipline is what the architecture refuses.
These aren't features we forgot to ship. They're shapes we won't take, by design.
We don't proxy your traffic
We're not in your data path. No MITM, no inline interception, no traffic routing through us. The endpoint agent runs on user devices only — never on prod servers, databases or domain controllers.
InsteadTelemetry-only — we sit off the data path.
We don't inspect content
We don't scrape DOM, parse emails or read form data. We're not a DLP. We score destinations and actions — not payloads.
InsteadAction + destination risk scoring.
We don't fake feature parity
Every connector ships with GA, Review, or Roadmap labeling. We won't list a logo and call it an integration if it doesn't ship today.
InsteadDocumented status on every connector.
We don't lock you into our format
KVKK, GDPR, ISO 27001 and NIST CSF exports are standard, not premium. Your audit-ready evidence is portable from day one.
InsteadFramework-standard exports, always available.
How we work
Setup, then live.
Two phases. No months-long professional services contract. The MSI is zero-touch — your existing MDM does the heavy lifting.
Hours → 1 week
1 · Hours
Setup
IT admin grabs the MSI from the dashboard (Firm Code + Enrollment Secret included) and pushes it through your preferred channel — Intune, Group Policy, RMM, or manual. AD/domain not required.
2 · Same day → 1 week
Live
MSI installs silently, browser extension and agent auto-enroll. Initial inventory fills in hours; meaningful risk and cost data within a week. Optional AD connect: 5 minutes after configuration, lifecycle is live.
Want to talk?
Reach out for a 30-min architecture walkthrough — your stack, your questions, your team.
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