Redact reports and audits
To polish the wording, check consistency, or summarize findings with AI, first remove the personal data from the document: that way you protect its confidentiality.
Your document is not passed to any AI: it does not leave your computer and is not uploaded or stored. The name detector runs inside your browser. You can check it: after the first document, disconnect from the internet and it keeps working.
Options
Document language:
Citations of published works (“(Smith, 2019)” and the reference list) stay as they are. Turn it off for a blind review.
An italic paragraph, in the document’s language, that explains to the AI what the codes in brackets are and asks it not to try to guess the data.
Do you already have a HILO lookup table (from a dataset or another document)? Load it and the same people and data keep their codes.
First time using the anonymizer? To process your document without it leaving your phone, HILO has to download, only once, the dictionaries and files it needs (about 140 MB). We recommend using Wi-Fi. On a phone, the process may take longer than on a computer.
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People
ID numbers, phone numbers, and emails
Uncheck what you do not want to replace. The names you see here do not leave your computer.
To review
If you do not review them, they are covered anyway. Review them so you do not cover words that are not data.
Before downloading, look at this
These words were left in the anonymized document and could be people or data. Replace the ones that are.
A report ready to review with AI
1. Load it
Load the report or working papers in Word or PDF.
2. Review
Review managers, interviewees, and suppliers; decide which roles to keep.
3. Use it with AI
Ask the AI to polish, organize, or summarize the findings.
People in charge, interviewees, and their contacts
A report names the people interviewed, the heads of each area, suppliers, and sometimes beneficiaries, with emails, phone numbers, and IDs. HILO replaces them with codes throughout the report, also in tables, footnotes, annexes, and charts.
Titles and departments (“Procurement Department”, “Political Science Department”) stay as they are.
What gets covered in a report or audit
What identifies the people behind each finding:
- department heads and people interviewed;
- suppliers and beneficiaries named after a person;
- emails, phone numbers, and IDs;
- names in tables, notes, and annexes.
Amounts, processes, and findings stay as they are.
What you can ask the AI with the anonymized report
The technical content is still complete:
- check consistency between findings and recommendations;
- write an executive summary;
- unify the style of several authors;
- build a risk table.
Documents worth anonymizing before using AI
Plans
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- Keyword search, coding, and annotating, with no limit
- Unlimited downloads of the edited document
- Error diagnostics and tools for datasets
- Topic and code summaries
- Kappa calculator
- AI features (concept maps, assisted coding, checklist, logic model, variable operationalization), with your hilos
- Anonymize documents: 1 without an account, 5 per week with your account (ES · EN · PT)
- 325 hilos per week for AI features (renewed every Monday at 00:00 UTC)
- Change tracking (redline)
- Change history and traceability
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The week renews on Monday. Each anonymized document you download counts once per file.
No: “the head of Treasury” stays. Keep in mind that in a small organization a job title can identify someone; you decide.
HILO focuses on people and their data. A company named after a person may show up for review.
For spreadsheets there is the dataset tool, with the same codes.
Yes: it replaces data in tables, notes, and charts, and removes the hidden spreadsheet inside Word and PowerPoint charts.
Yes: load the lookup table from the previous report and the same people keep their codes.