Blackout is a secure, web-based platform designed for document redaction and production. It enables teams to protect sensitive information, organize work across multiple workspaces, and produce documents efficiently. Blackout focuses on precise redactions and controlled productions, rather than full document review.
Feature Overview
Organize Work by Workspace
Create workspaces to separate matters, projects, or productions.
Control which users have access to individual workspaces.
Manage Users and Roles
Invite users to the organization. New users are added as Contributors, and Organization Admins can update their role afterward.
Add or remove Workspace Admins, Contributors, and Readers from individual workspaces.
Deactivate or reactivate users and update user roles as needed.
Apply and Manage Redactions
Upload supported documents individually or as ZIP files.
Redact content in PDFs, Word documents, images, emails, PowerPoints, and spreadsheets, including spreadsheet-specific elements such as comments, charts, headers, footers, and sheet names.
Use multiple redaction types: black, white, and text-based redactions.
Remove or modify redactions.
Use visibility toggles to verify underlying content before final production.
Prepare, Run, and Share Productions
Create productions with configurable naming strategies, an optional Production Date, and Bates numbering.
Run productions to finalize documents, ensuring redactions are burned in, and data is secured.
Share productions with other users directly in Blackout, enabling controlled access and secure export.
Use an automatically generated CSV load file for import into other document review systems as part of your productions.
Organize Work by Workspace.
Create workspaces to separate matters, projects, or productions.
Control visibility and permissions at the workspace level.