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Sanitisation & Redaction · 8 min read
Can ChatGPT or Claude Sanitise a Consulting Deck?
It's one of the first things a consultant tries when told to sanitise a batch of decks: ask an AI engine directly. A fair test of what ChatGPT and Claude genuinely do well — and the five places they fail on a real consulting deck.
Sanitisation & Redaction · 7 min read
Microsoft Presidio for Consulting Decks
Presidio is a genuinely good open-source library for one job: finding structured PII in text and images. Consulting-deck confidentiality is mostly a different job — and a Presidio-based build still has to solve the hard part from scratch.
Sanitisation & Redaction · 7 min read
Build vs Buy: A Sanitisation Tool Guide
Building an internal sanitisation tool means putting your own engineers on the job of detecting client-confidential content in decks. For most consulting firms, buying wins — not for lack of ambition or budget, but because high accuracy is an iterative engineering problem with a realistic 12-month-plus build.
AI & Knowledge Management · 5 min read
Sanitising Documents for RAG and AI Ingestion
Access control decides who can retrieve a document. It says nothing about what is inside it. Why consulting deliverables need content-level sanitisation before they enter a knowledge base or vector store.
Sanitisation & Redaction · 5 min read
What Hides Inside a PPTX File
A .pptx file is a ZIP archive of XML files, and what renders on screen is a fraction of what ships in the file. Speaker notes, embedded workbooks, cached chart data and recoverable "deleted" content all travel with every copy of the deck.
AI & Knowledge Management · 7 min read
AI Governance for Consulting Knowledge Bases
When an AI agent answers from your knowledge base, governance means proving what it could reach, why that content was safe, and exactly what was changed to make it safe. Access controls only answer the first.
AI & Knowledge Management · 10 min read
A Consulting Firm’s Edge Is Its Own Knowledge
AI runs on one thing: the knowledge a firm has built. Point it at gathered, confidentiality-safe, clean knowledge and it puts decades of judgement to work at once. Point it at scraps and it stays generic.
Sanitisation & Redaction · 8 min read
Why Generic Tools Can’t Sanitise Consulting Decks
ChatGPT, keyword redaction tools and manual review can all strip a client’s name now. That was never the hard part. Here is where they fail — and what sanitising a consulting deck actually takes.
Sanitisation & Redaction · 14 min read
Consulting Sanitisation: The Complete Guide
The definitive guide to sanitising consulting deliverables — why it's different from standard redaction, what makes consulting content sensitive, and what a consulting-grade approach actually requires.
AI & Knowledge Management · 12 min read
The Confidentiality Wall Blocking Consulting AI
Consulting firms have spent billions on AI, but most of their best content is too confidential to feed into these systems. The missing infrastructure layer isn't better AI — it's document-level sanitisation.
Knowledge Management · 13 min read
The Knowledge Tax: What Is It Costing You?
Most consulting firms reuse less than 5% of their past deliverables. The compound cost of that waste — in duplicated work, weaker AI tools, and slower delivery — is the knowledge tax. Here's how to size it.
Sanitisation & Redaction · 7 min read
Why PDF Redaction Tools Fail Consulting Firms
The redaction software market is built around PDF. Consulting firms work in PowerPoint. That mismatch isn't a minor inconvenience — it's a fundamental problem.
Sanitisation & Redaction · 9 min read
Manual vs Automated Redaction: The Real Cost
Manual redaction takes 4-8 hours per deck. Automated tools miss 80% of consulting sensitivity. Neither works at the scale firms actually need. Here's the honest comparison.
Knowledge Management · 9 min read
Why Your Firm's Best Decks Are Locked Away
The vast majority of consulting knowledge — captured in PowerPoint slide decks — is inaccessible because it's confidential. This isn't a technology problem. It's a structural one.
Sanitisation & Redaction · 8 min read
How to Redact PowerPoint Slides for Consulting
Generic redaction guides tell you to use PowerPoint's Inspect Document feature. Here's what actually works when the sensitive content is client strategy, not Social Security numbers.
Sanitisation & Redaction · 5 min read
What Is Context-Aware Redaction?
Context-aware redaction evaluates sensitivity based on what content means in context — not just what words appear. Here's why that distinction matters for consulting deliverables.
Knowledge Management · 10 min read
Three Approaches to Sanitising Confidential Decks
Ingest everything, exclude everything, or manually sanitise. Every firm picks one of these three doors. None of them work at scale.
Sanitisation & Redaction · 5 min read
What Is Document Sanitisation?
Document sanitisation for consulting firms means something fundamentally different from standard redaction. Here's what it actually involves — and why PII tools miss the point entirely.
Sanitisation & Redaction · 11 min read
Why Find-and-Replace Redaction Fails
Keyword redaction catches about 20% of what's sensitive in a consulting deck. The other 80% — contextual metrics, inference risk, chart data, brand artefacts — requires a fundamentally different approach.
AI & Knowledge Management · 8 min read
Building AI-Ready Knowledge Bases
AI adoption requires clean, safe data. Learn how leading firms prepare institutional knowledge for AI while maintaining compliance and confidentiality.
Industry Insights · 5 min read
Why Knowledge-Intensive Firms Need Sanitisation
Consulting firms generate invaluable insights locked in client deliverables. Learn why traditional redaction methods fail and how AI-powered sanitisation unlocks institutional knowledge.
AI & Knowledge Management · 7 min read
The Hidden Cost of Manual Document Sanitisation
Manual sanitisation drains thousands of hours annually from consulting teams. Discover the true ROI impact and how automation transforms knowledge management workflows.
AI & Knowledge Management · 6 min read
Context-Aware Sanitisation: Beyond Black Boxes
Traditional redaction destroys data value. Explore how contextual redaction preserves analytical insight while maintaining confidentiality through intelligent transformation.
Security · 6 min read
SOC 2 Compliance for Knowledge Management Systems
Security and compliance are non-negotiable for enterprise knowledge platforms. Understand the critical requirements for handling sensitive institutional data.
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