ALICE® REDAX™ Automated Redaction Software
ALICE® REDAX™ delivers AI-powered automated redaction, processing structured and unstructured documents with greater than 99% accuracy. It is readily customizable and extendable to the redaction and declassification needs of any agency, integrating with existing tools and infrastructure.
5X the outcomes of manual efforts | >99% accuracy | 5.3-month payback | Up to $7.8M projected 5-year savings
How ALICE® REDAX™ Works
ALICE® REDAX™ is a rapidly deployable cloud-native application within our ALICE® suite of digital accelerators. It supports redaction and metadata enrichment, with automated and manual context-bases annotation for redaction justifications and bulit-in user guidance. ALICE® REDAX™ integrates easily with enterprise workflow and case management solutions and is configurable from 0% to 100% human-in-the-loop automation based on confidence algorithms and statistical sampling.
Need declassification? Organizations with national security classification requirements should also explore ALICE® DECLASS™, Brillient’s DoD Tradewinds-approved solution for mandatory declassification review of classified documents.
Extending into automated workflows? ALICE® MissionX™ provides the rules-driven, human-supervised automation platform to carry that processing forward.
Implementation:
MVP (Initial Operating Capability) with Beneficial Use: 3 months, full operating capability at 6 months.
Return on Investment:
Time to Recover Investment: 5 months from kick-off with increasing returns as automation increases.
Organizations must regularly release information to the public while protecting what has to stay private. FOIA requests, published tax filings, and open records obligations share the same challenge: get the right information out quickly without exposing sensitive data. ALICE® REDAX™, Brillient’s AI automated redaction engine, makes that process fast, accurate, and repeatable.
ALICE® REDAX™ supports any process where an organization must release information while protecting sensitive data, from FOIA processing to publishing redacted tax returns. See how Brillient delivers friction-free solutions across FOIA, HR, procurement, analytics and more, driving mission excellence for agencies and enterprises.
IRS Use Case: Powered by ALICE® REDAX™
The Challenge
IRS Tax Exempt and Government Entities (TEGE) must redact annual returns and exemption applications before public disclosure, with no leakage of National Defense-sensitive data, PII, confidential trade secrets, or donor names. Redaction follows complex Internal Revenue Manual (IRM) rules across paper, PDF, and XML formats.
About 600 staff contributed to redaction, the equivalent of 150 full-time FTEs plus 90 more from staff spending about 20% of their time on it. At industry benchmarks of 5 to 10 minutes per page, that workforce could realistically handle only 3 to 6 million pages a year. XML returns flagged during keyword scanning were set aside unreleased, and bulk requests for prior-year applications created a backlog that wasn’t shrinking.
The Solution
ALICE® REDAX™ processes every return and application end to end, so human reviewers focus on exceptions and edge cases instead of every page.
- Processes XML and rendered PDF versions of each return simultaneously
- Automatically applies all IRM redaction and disclosure rules, including PII removal, schedule restriction, and internal markings
- Extracts metadata for public posting, search indexing, and analytics
- Flags areas needing human review in an interface that shows the full package
- Packages final, immutable files ready for disclosure
- Learns from reviewer corrections to improve accuracy over time
- Reduces human-in-the-loop review through statistical sampling as confidence grows
Return on Investment
Even with an estimated $1.5M in operating costs, including model retraining as tax forms and IRM rules change, the conservative payback stays under 18 months. Because filing volumes are expected to keep growing, ALICE® REDAX™ lets the IRS absorb that growth through automation rather than added staff.
- 10X throughput with existing staff
- 165 FTE equivalents redeployed to higher-value compliance and examination work
- Full annual volume processed with no backlog
- On-schedule disclosure compliance, with every page reviewed by the system
- Mission focus restored for the IRS Research, Applied Analytics and Statistics (RAAS) team, whose time no longer goes to TEGE redaction
- Better morale and retention by removing high-volume, repetitive work
- Public trust through timely, accurate disclosure
- A model for IRS modernization, extendable to FOIA, litigation, and other sensitive data needs
Built for FOIA and Beyond
The same capabilities that cleared the IRS backlog apply directly to FOIA processing. ALICE® REDAX™ ingests requested records, identifies sensitive content against applicable policies, applies consistent redactions, and routes output through supervised review. Teams respond faster while protecting PII, confidential business information, and other protected data.
Friction-Free Solutions Across Your Organization
Brillient applies ALICE® to information-intensive work for agencies and enterprises alike:
- Information transactions: FOIA and information retrieval, facilities and leasing, procurement and contracts, procurement to finance
- People matters: HR modernization, client experience (CX), employee experience (EX)
- Equipment: vehicle fleet management and maintenance, inventory and product catalogs, asset and property management, construction management
- Analytics: integrated views of citizens, immigrants, and businesses across silos; cluster analysis for trends and patterns; network analysis for fraud, waste, and abuse
- Mission digitalization: transaction processing, case management