Everything stays local
Detection and restoration run entirely on your computer. The only text that ever leaves is the sanitized version you choose to share.
RedactIt
Use public AI on legal documents without ever exposing a client confidence.
Version 1.0.0 · Windows 10 & 11 · a one-time activation key unlocks the app.
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Verify your download
The installer is digitally signed by Black Dog Analytics, LLC — right-click the file, choose Properties → Digital Signatures, and confirm that publisher. Windows shows the same name when you run it.
SHA-256 of the installer:
F791730FAB45843B1057426F0A3D760884646F5028256AB36D0F65DE23FB14AA
Check it in PowerShell with
Get-FileHash RedactIt-Setup-1.0.0.exe.
What RedactIt does
RedactIt lets lawyers take advantage of public AI tools without exposing client confidences. It detects the sensitive details in a legal document — client and party names, addresses, and other identifiers — and reversibly pseudonymizes them, replacing each with a neutral placeholder.
All detection happens entirely on your own machine; nothing is sent anywhere during redaction. You can then share the sanitized text with any online service — ChatGPT, Claude, or another assistant — to improve or analyze it. When the AI hands the text back, RedactIt restores the real details locally in a single step.
Built originally for one firm's confidentiality needs, it is now available to any practice with the same concern. RedactIt runs on Windows and requires a one-time activation key.
RedactIt is a starting point, not a substitute for your own review. Automated detection is never perfect — it may miss a name or include one it should not. You are responsible for reviewing each document and confirming the redaction is complete and correct before you share it.
Reversible, not blacked out
Sensitive details are swapped for typed placeholders and kept in an encrypted local vault, so the AI's improved text can be restored to the real names in one click.
You review before anything leaves
Every detected entity is shown for review — add or remove any item — so you see exactly what will be hidden before the sanitized text is ever copied out.
Works with the documents you use
Handles Word (.docx) and text-based PDF documents, plus plain pasted text, with formatting preserved on the way back.
Get started
- Download and install RedactIt on your Windows PC.
- Buy an activation key and enter it once to unlock the app.
- Redact, share, restore — sanitize a document, take it to any AI tool, then restore the real details locally.
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