A record that outlasts the case.
An append-only record of every action in a case: ingestion, extraction, resolution, views, decisions, changes and exports.
The problem
Emails and spreadsheets do not record who looked at what, when a decision was changed, or why. When a case is reviewed by a regulator or a court, the team is reconstructing events from memory.
How Redactics handles it
Every action in a Redactics case is written to an append-only log: what was collected, what was extracted, how people were resolved, who viewed which source, what was decided, what changed and what was exported. The log is readable by people and exportable for regulators, auditors or courts.
- Append-only event log per case
- Every view of source material recorded with user and time
- Decision history including changes, reversals and reasons
- Export as PDF or CSV for regulators, auditors or litigation
- Cases
- /SAR-2026-0417
- /Audit trail
SAR-2026-0417/Audit trail
21 Aug 2026, 15:02
Decision recorded: Redact by A. Whitlock
F-1047 · Reason: third-party personal data (Sch 2 para 16)
21 Aug 2026, 14:36
Decision recorded: Disclose by A. Whitlock
F-0912 · Special category data about the requester
21 Aug 2026, 14:31
Source evidence opened by A. Whitlock
OH-assessment-DO-Mar24.pdf, page 2
20 Aug 2026, 11:15
Transcription verified by R. Mensah
Scanned letter, 14 Mar 2023 · handwriting checked against original
19 Aug 2026, 09:04
Person resolution complete by Redactics
23 people from 1,102 mentions · 1 ambiguous match flagged
18 Aug 2026, 17:22
Extraction complete by Redactics
8,868 items · 63 scans · 11 handwritten pages
18 Aug 2026, 16:40
Case created by J. Adeyemi
Scope: HR, line management and OH correspondence, 2019 to 2025
- Reporting on a case is a query
- Who did what and when is available on demand, for the current case or one closed two years ago.
- Evidence for the ICO or a court
- The audit trail is the record that shows the process was reasonable, consistent and complete.
- Stored separately, retained on your terms
- Audit logs are held separately from case content, with retention periods you configure and secure deletion at the end.
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For your risk
For your security review
Make SARs manageable.
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