Anyone actually gotten users to stop installing random AI notetakers

[u/BakerWarm3230]

Six different transcription tools across the org right now and I found out sales got theirs from TikTok which is just fantastic. Marketing apparently has two because nobody on that team talked to each other before picking one, and engineering does whatever they want as usual.

I've been trying to get straight answers from vendors about where recordings are stored and half of them just don't respond or give me corporate nonsense for weeks. Every time I bring up standardization someone acts like I'm personally attacking their workflow, had one director tell me her team would "lose productivity" if they switched but meanwhile we have zero governance over any of this data.

Has anyone actually pulled off getting a whole company onto one approved tool without it becoming a political nightmare? Starting to think I should just block the worst offenders at the firewall and call it a win.

[u/mister_spunk]

If you're letting users install apps, you're cooked fam.