We built this because the problem is real.
Brolli AI is a product by Knowello, an AI implementation and consulting business based in Melbourne. We've spent the last few years helping Australian organisations get practical about AI. Shadow AI governance came up in almost every conversation.
When we started working with Australian organisations on AI adoption, the same concern kept coming up. People were using AI tools. Lots of them. But IT teams had no visibility, compliance teams had no audit trail, and leadership had no idea what data was being shared with offshore AI vendors.
The instinct was always to ban everything. Which never worked. Employees kept using the tools because the tools were genuinely useful. The ban just meant the usage went underground.
What was missing wasn't a harder lock. It was a smarter one.
Brolli AI is our answer to that problem. A governance layer that gives organisations visibility and control without treating employees like suspects. A tool designed specifically for the Australian compliance environment, with Australian data residency as a non-negotiable architectural decision.
The name comes from the obvious metaphor. A brolli is protection from whatever's coming. We thought that was apt.
Governance, not surveillance.
We made a specific design decision early in building Brolli AI: we would not build a per-employee monitoring view, and we would not collect anything beyond what was needed to identify which AI tool site a browser visited.
There is no way to see what an individual employee is doing in the admin dashboard. We cannot see what they type into any AI tool. User data is hashed before it leaves the browser and cannot be reversed. This was a deliberate architectural choice, not an afterthought.
“A seatbelt, not a speed camera. The goal is to keep people safe, not to catch them doing something wrong.”
Not adapted for Australia. Built for it.
Most AI governance tools are built for US enterprise buyers and adapted for other markets. Brolli AI is different. We built it in Australia, for Australian organisations, with Australian data sovereignty as a foundation.
This matters for government agencies, universities, healthcare networks, and professional services firms who have hard obligations around where their data lives and how it's handled.
The team.
Toby founded Knowello with the belief that AI should be practical, accessible, and human-centred. He's worked with organisations across education, government, and corporate sectors on AI implementation and strategy. Brolli AI came out of conversations with those clients about the gap between AI adoption and AI governance.
We're in early access.
Brolli AI is onboarding a select group of Australian organisations who want to get ahead of the shadow AI problem. If you're in education, government, healthcare, or professional services and you're starting to ask serious questions about AI governance, we'd like to talk.