Review your consulting report so the recommendation holds up
A long report is written in parts and often by several people. The diagnosis says one thing, the analysis qualifies it, and the final recommendation ends up resting on something nobody got around to developing.
Whoever reads it doesn't review the whole document: they look for whether the conclusion adds up. HILO gathers everything the report says about a single key issue, with the page of each mention, so you can review it together before you deliver it.
- Finds the issue even when it's said in other words
- Gives you back the edited document as .docx
- Download the issue's summary or its concept map
Seven tools for the report and its evidence
Gather a topic
Everything the report says about a key issue, even when the diagnosis and the recommendation don't use the same words. Each mention with its page.
Fix the passages together
The passages on an issue are corrected on a single screen and the whole report downloads as .docx.
Summarize by topic
What the report says about a specific point, with the pages at hand. What you need when the client asks about an issue and the report runs eighty pages.
Concept map
The issue and its branches, drawn from the report. It fits on a slide and shows the structure the report really has, which is almost never the one in the table of contents.
Code open-ended questions
The free-text answers column of a survey, grouped into categories, with how many answers fell into each and examples of each group.
Check and merge datasets
The diagnostic data before the analysis: duplicates, categories written two ways, and columns that don't match between files.
Find verbatim quotes in interviews
The fieldwork interviews, with the verbatim quotes on a point, who said them and on which page, ready to paste into the client report.
Remove identifiers before sharing
To return or share a beneficiary dataset without ID numbers or names: each person gets a code, the same in every file, and it all happens in your browser.
What gets looked at before a report goes up
It works for a management report, an organizational diagnostic, a strategic plan, or a fieldwork study. It makes no difference whether you are an external consultant or you submit the report inside your own organization: either way, someone is going to read it to make a decision.
The recommendation should have backing
It gathers everything the report says about a key issue, from the diagnosis to the conclusion, so you can verify that the recommendation rests on evidence that appears earlier in the document. It's the first thing a decision-maker looks for.
The same figure shouldn't appear differently
The fieldwork figure in one chapter and a slightly different one in the summary. Seeing them together shows which one went stale after the last corrections.
The report should speak one language
In documents written by several people, the same unit of analysis shows up named three different ways. It's the first thing an outsider notices, and what costs the most credibility.
The summary should say the same as the body
The executive summary is the part that does get read in full, and the one that goes stale most when the report is corrected at the last minute. It gathers an issue and compares how it appears in each place.
Your document isn't stored on our servers
Reading the document and editing happen on your computer. Changes are saved to your own Google Drive or Microsoft 365, in your account. It matters when the report contains data from a client or from your organization that hasn't been made public yet. When you use an AI feature, only the passage needed for that query is sent to Gemini, Google's model, and HILO doesn't store it.
No. HILO doesn't write, doesn't suggest paragraphs, and doesn't fill in what's missing. All it does is gather what you already wrote on a key issue and put it together so you can review it. Every passage it shows comes from your document and keeps its page number, so you can always go back to the original and check it. The writing, and the decision about what to change, remain yours.
That's where it pays off most. When each section is written by a different person, the same data point or the same unit of analysis ends up named in several ways without anyone noticing. HILO gathers the variants so you can settle on one before you deliver.
Yes. You can work with the whole document or with one section. The usual approach is to search for an issue across the whole report and compare how it appears in the body and how it ended up in the executive summary.
Both. You can download the full document with your edits applied, the issue's summary separately, or the concept map as PNG or SVG for the presentation.
Not on our servers. Processing happens in your browser and saving goes to your own Google Drive or Microsoft 365. The same goes for a fieldwork study in progress or a diagnostic under a confidentiality agreement.
Word documents (.docx) and PDF. PDFs are read, searched, and coded; the download with your changes is always .docx.
No. HILO doesn't evaluate or supervise your work: it gathers what you wrote on each point so that you, or whoever reviews the report, can see it together.
Try it without signing up
Look at the example with a report, or upload yours and search for an issue to see where it appears. Without signing up, search is by keyword. To search by meaning, create a free account: it comes with 100 welcome hilos, the unit HILO uses to measure AI usage.