Blackout, the preeminent native redactions technology, is now live in Reveal Enterprise

Picture this: Your client, a leading pharmaceutical company, faces a product liability suit requiring the voluminous production of clinical trial data spanning thousands of Excel spreadsheets embedded with trade secrets and other acutely sensitive materials.

Patient identifiers, proprietary research formulas, graphs showing clinical trial results – it’s all there, hidden in rows and columns and cells.

Traditional redaction methods would require converting each spreadsheet to PDF, manually identifying sensitive information across countless cells while cross-referencing the natives, and losing the functionality that opposing counsel specifically requested. The result? Weeks of manual work, potential privilege waiver risks, and frustrated legal teams managing an inefficient process.

It’s a common, high-stakes challenge – and one that just got much easier to solve.

We’re pleased to announce that Blackout, the legal industry's premier automated redaction technology, is now fully integrated into the Reveal Enterprise platform, and available at no extra cost to customers who request access.

Seamless Integration Eliminates Production Bottlenecks

The integration represents a major advancement in redaction workflows. Legal teams can now redact personally identifiable information, privileged content, and sensitive materials directly within Excel files while preserving their native format and functionality. All that’s required is selecting and dragging over cells – no more difficult than applying a highlight to a doc.

This eliminates the traditional bottleneck of converting spreadsheets to static images before redaction, maintaining the searchable, sortable nature that makes native production valuable. 

"By bringing Blackout into the Reveal ecosystem, we're giving legal teams more choice and control in how they manage redactions at scale," our founder & CEO Wendell Jisa said in a press release. The technology builds upon Reveal's existing image-based redaction capabilities, creating a comprehensive solution for both native and converted document formats.

Proven Technology at Enterprise Scale

Blackout's track record speaks to its reliability in high-stakes legal environments. With over six billion redactions placed to date, the technology has proven its accuracy and efficiency across diverse litigation scenarios. The native Excel capability means law firms, service providers and in-house corporate and government teams can now handle complex financial data, scientific research, and business intelligence spreadsheets, among others, without sacrificing the interactive elements that make these documents valuable to legal proceedings – and without fear sensitive data might be inadvertently disclosed. 

Immediate Availability and Future Expansion

Current Reveal Enterprise customers can access these native redaction capabilities immediately at no additional cost, with global rollout and additional functionality including bulk automations and advanced AI applications continuing through 2025. Blackout will also be made available in Logikcull in the coming months.

For legal teams managing document-intensive litigation and investigations, this development represents a significant step forward in maintaining both efficiency and security throughout the discovery process. The release also underscores Reveal’s promise to assemble best-in-breed technologies across the full spectrum of eDiscovery, and capitalizes for thousands of global customers on its acquisition of Blackout’s source code from Milyli in October. 

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