Why Choose Redaktr
How Redaktr compares to other tools available
Matter-based comparison
How Redaktr compares to enterprise e-discovery platforms
Organisations responding to DSARs, FOI requests, and disclosure obligations often find themselves choosing between tools that are either too limited to be safe or too complex to be proportionate.
Redaktr sits deliberately between lightweight redaction tools and full enterprise e-discovery platforms, adopting the matter-based model without the overhead that usually comes with it.
Enterprise e-discovery platforms
Enterprise e-discovery systems are designed primarily for litigation and regulatory investigations. They typically operate on a matter-based pricing model, with each matter billed per month and supplemented by storage, processing, and user fees.
These platforms are powerful and well-suited to complex litigation, but they also introduce:
- significant onboarding and configuration overhead,
- steep learning curves for users,
- costs that escalate quickly as data volumes grow,
- features that are unnecessary for most DSAR and FOI workflows.
In practice, organisations often find that they are paying for scale and complexity they do not need, simply to obtain the auditability and defensibility they do.
Lightweight redaction tools
At the other end of the spectrum are tools that price by document or page count and focus on rapid redaction.
These tools are often adequate for ad-hoc or low-risk tasks, but they lack:
- structured case isolation,
- workflow auditability,
- meaningful evidencing of decision-making,
- controls appropriate for regulated disclosure.
Once document volumes reach realistic DSAR levels, these tools either become cost-ineffective or expose organisations to avoidable risk.
Redaktr’s matter-based approach
Redaktr adopts the matter-based logic of enterprise platforms, but scopes it specifically to disclosure and redaction.
Each Redaktr case is a self-contained workspace corresponding to a single DSAR, FOI request, or disclosure matter. Within that case, users can ingest large volumes of documents, review and redact them iteratively, and export compliant outputs, all while maintaining a complete audit trail.
The emphasis is on:
- proportionality rather than scale,
- clarity rather than feature breadth,
- defensibility rather than automation.