AI Redaction

Redaction lets you share a document while keeping part of it private. Waafir reads the document, identifies sensitive content — personal data, confidential figures, names, anything an investor should not see — and produces a version with that content blacked out. The original is never altered, and recipients only ever see the redacted version.

How it works

You start redaction on a document. The Redactor agent reads the full text and proposes the spans it believes should be removed. This runs asynchronously, so you can keep working while it analyses a long document; the platform notifies you when the proposal is ready.

Redaction is never applied to a document without your review. When analysis finishes, you receive a review screen showing exactly what will be blacked out: each proposed redaction laid out so you can see what the agent caught and what it would remove.

You control what is redacted

The review step is where you decide. On that screen you can:

• Confirm the proposed redactions and apply them.
• Reject the proposal if it is not what you want.

The platform produces the final redacted document only when you confirm. Until then, nothing about what investors can see has changed. The agent does the tedious work of finding sensitive content across a long file; the decision about what leaves your control remains with you.

Investors only see the redacted version

This is the guarantee that makes redaction safe to rely on: once a document is redacted, the investor-facing side of the platform exposes only the redacted PDF. There is no path by which an investor reaches the original content behind the black bars. The redacted output is a real, flattened document — the hidden content is removed from what they receive, not concealed by a layer they could peel back.

When to use it

• Sharing a contract that contains personal data or third-party terms you are not permitted to disclose.
• Preparing financials where some line items are not yet for investor eyes.
• Any document that is mostly shareable but contains a few passages that are not — redaction lets you share it instead of withholding it.

Best practice

• Always read the review screen. The agent is thorough, but you know your deal. Scan for anything deal-specific it would not recognise as sensitive.
• Redact before granting access, not after. The cleanest sequence is: upload, redact, review, confirm, then open the document to investors.
• For a document that needs both translation and redaction, redact first so the version you translate is already clean.

Redaction is one of the AI agents; the same review-before-apply principle governs the others.