Recover the engineering effort that doesn’t have a project name on it.
We routinely surface seven figures of unattributed effort in week one. Untracked staff, closed projects still accruing work, duplicate people records, creation-and-maintenance projects that should have been split. The work happened. The cost is real. The attribution was missing.
Flowstate finds it and reconciles it back automatically.
The work is happening. The attribution isn’t.
The published numbers on shadow IT and unattributed work tell you why the gap exists. Our customers tell you how big it is.
Up from 41% in 2022. Tooling, accounts, repos and AI subscriptions acquired without going through IT — the work happens, the ledger doesn’t.
Gartner cybersecurity prediction (via Valence Security analysis) →Against an average of 108 known ones. Roughly 42% of apps in active use originate in shadow IT — staff, projects and budget hidden behind them.
Cisco / Productiv data via Techeela, 2025 →Nearly 80% have already experienced negative AI-related data incidents; 13% report financial, customer or reputational harm. Shadow AI is the new shadow IT — just faster.
Komprise, 2025 IT Survey: AI, Data & Enterprise Risk →36 untracked people and £1M+$1.3M+ in unattributed effort surfaced at a recent customer.
Week one of deployment. Not a forensic exercise — a default output.
The modules that solve this
Three products working together. Reconcile every hour to a person, a team and a project — or surface the gap.
Workforce Analytics
Real-time dashboards for headcount, cost, utilisation. The people-and-effort source of truth.
Variance Tracking
Continuous plan-vs-actual monitoring. Catch drift in headcount and effort before quarter-end.
Resource Discovery
Find the people doing the work that isn’t on the project list. Capacity you didn’t know you had.
See what we surface on your data.
Book a demo. We’ll connect to your HRIS and project systems and show you the unattributed-effort number — for your org, in your currency.