# BYOM for technology leaders

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Last updated: 2026-10-04

> BYOM for technology leaders: one approval gate and one record for every AI that touches the store, with named approvers, records and your own model keys.

## For the CTO or head of technology

AI is arriving through every tool, with no gate and no record.

Every vendor in the stack now ships its own assistant, and people connect their own to the store whenever they want one. BYOM puts one approval gate and one record in front of all of it, on a model you choose.

## The problems

- AI arrives through every tool: Each vendor adds its own assistant, with its own settings and its own idea of what it may change.
- No single record: When something changes in the store, nobody can say which AI did it, who allowed it or how to reverse it.
- Assistants connected ad hoc: Team members connect personal AI tools to the store with no oversight.
- Access is all or nothing: A connected tool either gets the keys to the store or nothing, and every vendor wants the keys.

## How BYOM helps

- One approval gate: Every change from Kina or a connected assistant waits for a named approver.
- Receipts for every change: What changed, who approved it, on what evidence, with undo where the store allows, and a governance export for audits and reviews.
- Bring your own model: Use your own model provider and keys. Your usage stays on your provider's bill.
- Govern the assistants people already use: The BYOM Shopify app connects the assistants your team already uses to the store, with a confirm step before every change.
- Scope, not keys: Kina reaches your systems through connections you control, and writes to them only once someone has said yes.

## Questions to ask Kina

- How do approvals work?
- Can we use our own model keys?
- Where is our data stored?