Blackout

Blackout is a leading redaction and markup software built for Relativity, providing organizations with advanced capabilities to identify, remove, and manage sensitive information across multiple document formats. Designed to streamline eDiscovery and compliance workflows, it offers a blend of automated intelligence and manual precision. This allows teams to handle high-volume projects quickly while maintaining accuracy and defensibility. Blackout has been recognized for innovation in its field, notably winning the Relativity Fest Innovation Award for its Suggested Redactions feature. The user interface is designed with simplicity and efficiency in mind, integrating directly into Relativity’s platform. This embedded approach eliminates the need for switching between applications and supports both automated and manual workflows in a familiar environment. Users can perform targeted searches, apply redactions, and manage markups through intuitive panel-based controls, making it easy to adapt the tool to different project needs. Functionality is a strong point for Blackout, as it offers features such as Suggested Redactions, Find & Redact for Images, automated batch redactions, inverted jobs, and manual markup options for native Excel, PDFs, and images.