What's New in March

Gwen Betts // March 23, 2026

The AI usage discourse has a way of changing shape by the week. Not long ago, the conversation was all OpenClaw, model launches, and the latest round of AI spectacle. Then the focus turned to tensions between the U.S. Department of Defense and Anthropic, raising serious questions about power, access, and influence. Now the regulatory conversation is gaining steam as federal and state approaches continue to collide.

Meanwhile, the Super Bowl of AI is happening every day inside your organizational boundaries. But it doesn't have to be all doom, gloom, and FUD! AI can feel more like a renaissance with the right behavioral guidance in place to support experimentation without letting it run wild.

Like when I was a kid experimenting with early CSS and DHTML, making sparkles follow my cursor, that same kind of creative energy is back. Now it looks like building MCP tools and turning workflows that used to take hours into minute-long interactions with Claude, or whatever flavor of AI you are working with.

As Chris Scowden of Newbury Partners shared with us recently, behavioral oversight make it possible to intentionally ramp up adoption around real business drivers while keeping adaptive guardrails in place as teams experiment with new tools. Win-win for security and productivity!

They also surface the moments where guidance is needed, especially as productivity, accountability, and reasonable care start to converge. And we know not all stories are neat win wires. Meta's AI Alignment Director had to literally pull the plug to stop a bot from deleting her inbox. Our own CTO watched a rogue agent drop a local database (she corralled it! ;). There are larger incidents out there, and now more stringent AI regulations are looming which makes material impact a reality (and to be clear, we are here for it).

That is a big part of where our attention is right now. We're revving up resources to help you make sense of the regulatory landscape, become enforcement-ready, and bring intelligent guardrails closer to the work itself, so your team can live their AI renaissance dreams and explore freely.

With that, let's dive into the March update. We've got a lot to cover!

Cheers,
Team Maro

P.S. RSA is upon us!! We've got our events listed below and would love to see you there. Catch you in SF!

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Product Updates

Policy Configuration Builder

Early Access - Define guardrails by app and behavior with a new policy builder that gives you granular control over how policies are applied and enforced.

Microsoft 365 Copilot and Grok AI Support

Policy guardrails now extend to Microsoft 365 Copilot and Grok, helping you guide AI usage in these apps.

Session Activity Timeline Enhancements

The session timeline now captures navigation, input, and submit events across all websites, plus detailed policy responses including violations, notifications, and employee course corrections.

Also in this release: We've added more detailed AI feature labels so you can see exactly which SaaS apps have embedded AI capabilities. Feature access is now tied to your subscription tier. And we've dialed back noisy intervention notifications.

Customer Stories

This month's customer story comes from Chris Scowden, CEO of Newbury Partners. What Chris loves most about Maro is how it reveals the AI tools and emerging use cases fueling productivity across his company.

That quickly turned into action. Chris shared that AI adoption grew from 5% to 20% in just a few months. Maro also surfaced revenue-generating use cases that the team then used to support targeted AI training and enablement. Wow!

Watch Chris's Story →

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