Strategy notes, settlement terms, medical and financial records ride along too.
AI redaction for California law firms and escrow teams.
Stay inside
the rules.
Built for California's AI, confidentiality and privacy rules.
Works with Wi-Fi off.
CONFIDENTIAL
Redaction on your device
Human approval
Use a safe copy
CALIFORNIA RULES, MAPPED TO REDACTIONS
One upload can expose your firm.
Send a file to an AI tool, a vendor or a shared drive, and everything in it goes too: client information, account details, case strategy.
What you send to an AI provider is kept under its rules, and courts have ordered providers to keep chat logs.45
HushRedact reads context, not just patterns.
Use the redacted copy, never the original.
CALIFORNIA RULES, MAPPED
Break these rules, risk your license.
California now sets rules for what lawyers put into AI, how they guard client confidences, and what reaches public filings. HushRedact automates all of it.
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SB 574, Bus. & Prof. Code 6068.1 (in effect 2027-01-01)12
- What it requires
- Don't put client identifiers into AI tools that people outside your control can access. Disclose AI use to the court.
- How HushRedact helps
- Redact client identifiers before a file goes to any AI tool. The redaction runs on your device.
02
Bus. & Prof. Code 6068(e)11
- What it requires
- Keep client confidences "inviolate".
- How HushRedact helps
- Remove confidential details before copies are shared, and a reviewer at your firm approves each one.
03
CCPA, Civ. Code 1798.15010
- What it requires
- You can be sued if "nonencrypted and nonredacted" personal information is breached.
- How HushRedact helps
- Redacted copies carry less personal information if they leak.
04
Cal. Rules of Court 1.2017
- What it requires
- Keep identifiers and account numbers out of public court filings.
- How HushRedact helps
- Find and remove them before you file, including in scans.
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Civ. Code 1798.85 / 1798.8998
- What it requires
- Limits on SSNs in public and recorded documents.
- How HushRedact helps
- Full removal, or truncation to the last four digits.
Summaries, not legal advice. California only. HushRedact helps you meet these rules; your team decides what each one requires. Internally researched; not attorney-reviewed.
A record of every redaction.
When a redaction is approved, HushRedact issues a receipt with a hash and a timestamp you can check later.
The receipt records the document title and decision metadata, so it is not anonymous.
Example data
Redaction receipt
HR-EXAMPLE-014
- Document
- Settlement Agreement — Larkspur & Vane LLP
- Event
- Redacted by Dana R., Paralegal
- Timestamp
- 2026-10-14T16:42:00Z
- Decision
- Redaction approved
- SHA-256
- ab8990011efb28606705f79e5dd4703711fa52f029dfa2d75fbe5806077324b8
A matching hash shows this record hasn't changed since the redaction was approved.
What is HushRedact?
HushRedact is a desktop redaction app for law firms and escrow and title teams. It finds names, Social Security numbers, account numbers and other sensitive details in PDFs, Word files, scans and images, on your device by default. A reviewer at your firm checks each finding, adds or reveals redactions, and approves the exact version that is shared. In the exported PDF, the text under each redaction is removed rather than covered, and metadata is scrubbed. Sign-in, approval records and the optional AI assistant use the network. HushRedact helps firms meet California rules on client identifiers, financial account numbers and client confidentiality; it does not guarantee compliance. HushRedact reads context, not just patterns.
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Rule-by-rule clarity.
See which California rule each redaction helps you meet.
02
Redacted, not covered.
The exported PDF drops the hidden text and metadata under each redaction.
03
A person signs off.
HushRedact does the first pass; a reviewer at your firm approves.
A FEW GOOD QUESTIONS
Which California rules does HushRedact help with?
It helps you meet the duty to keep client confidences, the new SB 574 rule on putting client data into AI tools, the CCPA's breach liability for unredacted data, and the court rules on public filings. Your team decides what each rule requires. No tool can guarantee compliance, and HushRedact doesn't claim to.
Can it keep the last four digits of an SSN?
Yes. Full removal is the default. You can truncate by editing the redaction or with a custom rule.
Does anything leave our network?
Detection runs on your device by default. Some features use the network: sign-in, approval records, billing, updates, the optional in-app AI assistant and web search, and optional offload to a trusted computer on your network. In-app AI receives only the masked copy, but anything typed into chat goes to the AI provider. We'll show the exact boundary in the demo.
Does HushRedact work with Wi-Fi off?
Yes. Detection and redaction run on your device, so you can redact with Wi-Fi off. Signing in, approval records and optional AI features use the network, so they need a connection.
Can our lawyers keep using their AI tools?
Yes. They use the reviewed copy in the tools they already have.
Who checks the result?
A reviewer at your firm checks every redaction and approves the exact version that goes out. Each approval can create a record you can export. Records show what was approved, not that nothing was missed.
What about driver's licences and ID images?
Text on scans and images is read with OCR. Full-image blur for ID documents is an opt-in setting, off by default.
Which files does it accept?
PDF, Word (DOCX), TXT, CSV, Markdown, common image formats and pasted text. Save Excel files as CSV first.
How is HushRedact priced?
You pay per page. Pricing starts at 20¢ a page and drops to as low as 5¢ a page at higher annual volume. A page is one PDF page, or the same amount of text in other documents. Book a demo for a quote that fits your firm's volume.
Do we need to share client documents for the demo?
No. The demo uses a synthetic document.
AI redaction for California law firms and escrow teams
What is AI redaction software for law firms?
AI redaction software finds sensitive details in legal documents and removes them before a copy is filed, recorded or shared. HushRedact is a desktop redaction app for California law firms and escrow and title teams. It looks for client names, Social Security numbers, financial account numbers and other client details in PDFs, Word files, scans and images. Detection runs on your device by default.
Automation does the first pass, and a person makes the call. A reviewer at your firm checks each finding, adds or removes redactions, and approves the exact version that is shared. Any later edit needs a new approval. Sign-in, approval records and the optional AI features use the network, and we show that boundary in the demo.
Redacted, not covered: how proper PDF redaction works
A black box drawn over a PDF can leave the original text underneath, where someone may still select, search or copy it. Proper redaction removes the text itself. When HushRedact exports a redacted PDF from the original file, it removes the text under each redaction, flattens form fields and annotations, and scrubs document metadata, attachments and embedded scripts.
Before export, HushRedact checks the output against the redactions a reviewer at your firm approved and stops an export it cannot confirm. That check covers what was marked, not details nobody found, which is why the human review step matters.
| What a recipient could find | Overlay drawn on top | HushRedact redacted PDF |
|---|---|---|
| Text under the box | Can remain in the file | Removed from the exported PDF |
| Document metadata | May remain | Scrubbed on export |
| Attachments and form fields | May remain | Attachments removed, forms flattened |
| Check before sharing | None built in | Output checked against the approved redactions |
| Who signed off | Not recorded | A reviewer at your firm approves the exact version |
SSN redaction for escrow, title and California court filings
California rules limit where Social Security numbers can appear. Civil Code section 1798.89 covers them in documents presented to a county recorder, and Civil Code section 1798.85 covers them in anything made public. For court filings, California Rules of Court rule 1.201 puts the job of excluding them and financial account numbers on the filer, not the clerk.
HushRedact helps escrow, title and litigation teams meet these rules. It finds client identifiers and account numbers, then removes them fully or truncates them to the last four, including on scanned pages, before a deed or filing leaves the office. A reviewer at your firm approves each copy, and your team and counsel decide what a document requires. HushRedact does not guarantee compliance, and this is not legal advice.
Using generative AI on client documents: redact first
ABA Formal Opinion 512 applies the duty of confidentiality to client information entered into generative AI tools. California's SB 574 adds limits on entering confidential client information into AI systems that lack restricted access. Redacting first means the copy that reaches an AI tool, vendor or shared drive carries less client detail.
Inside HushRedact, the optional AI assistant receives the masked copy of an approved document. Anything a user types into the chat still goes to the AI provider, so treat the chat box like any other outbound channel. Outside the app, lawyers can use the reviewed copy in the AI tools they already have.
Less exposure. More control.
See your rules mapped to your documents.
A short call, a synthetic file, and the California rules your team works under.
Pay per page. From 20¢, as low as 5¢ at volume.
Book a 15-Minute Security Demo15 minutes. Bring questions, not client files.