Intelligent data privacy for the documents you share every day.
Howlett is an intelligent data privacy platform that helps organisations understand and protect the personal information contained in their documents. Upload a PDF, Word document, or spreadsheet, and Howlett discovers sensitive data, analyses it in context, and turns what it finds into clear, structured insights you can act on. Where supported by your plan, Howlett can permanently redact sensitive information and return a clean, reusable version for safer sharing and usage.
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What we found: this document collects personal information. Recommendation: redact before sharing.
Watch Howlett work, start to finish
Follow a single document from upload to a clean, shareable file. Press play to watch here, or open the demo in a larger view.
Discover, analyse, act
Howlett takes a document from raw upload to privacy insight you can act on, in three stages.
Sensitive data discovery
Identify personal and sensitive information across your documents, so you can see what data is present before it becomes a problem.
Intelligent analysis
Analyse documents in context to distinguish meaningful sensitive data from ordinary text, and surface the findings that deserve attention.
Actionable privacy insights
Turn complex findings into clear, structured reports that show what was found, where it appears, and why it matters.
Confidence that sensitive information is handled properly
Reviewing documents for personal information is often slow, inconsistent and easy to overlook. Howlett transforms that process into a fast, reliable step in your workflow, helping your organisation understand what sensitive data is present before documents are shared, stored or used with AI.
Privacy-focused analysis
Designed to identify personal and sensitive information while keeping your data privacy at the centre of the analysis. Documents are processed securely and handled only for as long as the analysis requires.
Multi-layer detection
Sensitive data is identified through multiple complementary detection and validation methods, providing deeper coverage than simple pattern matching alone.
Actionable findings
Results are structured by data category and individual finding, making it easier to understand, review, and act on sensitive information.
Permanent redaction
Where supported by your plan, Howlett permanently removes sensitive information from your document and produces a clean, reusable copy that is safer to share internally, externally or with AI systems.
Four simple steps
Upload a document
Upload a PDF, Word document or Excel spreadsheet through a secure interface.
Howlett analyses your document
Howlett identifies personally identifiable information (PII), analyses the content in context and prepares a comprehensive assessment.
Review the results
Receive a clear summary of the findings, organised by category and explained in plain business language, along with recommendations for handling the document.
Download a redacted copy
Where supported by your plan, Howlett permanently removes sensitive information and returns a clean, reusable document that's safer to share and use with AI.
Understand what was found
Howlett organises detected personal information into clear categories, helping you quickly understand the types of information contained within your document.
Personal
Names, identity numbers, dates of birth and other information that can directly identify an individual.
Contact details
Email addresses, telephone numbers, physical addresses and other contact information.
Financial
Bank account numbers, payment card details, tax reference numbers and other financial information that requires careful handling.
See Howlett on your documents
Book a personalised walkthrough to see Howlett discover sensitive data, explain its findings in plain business language, and automatically produce a permanently redacted document from start to finish.
Howlett supports your POPIA compliance efforts but does not, on its own, guarantee compliance with any law or regulation.