Open the review locally, check employee and manager identifiers plus any compensation references, replace accepted values, verify the export, then use the anonymized copy with AI.
Why this workflow matters
Performance reviews contain an employee's identity, manager feedback and sometimes pay references. AI analysis needs the themes, not the person. AnonymizeDocs prepares a reviewed copy locally.
The goal is a working copy that still makes sense to an AI tool: relationships stay consistent, while accepted names, contacts, addresses and document-specific identifiers become controlled replacements.
A practical sequence
Choose the PDF or DOCX from your device. The original stays in the browser.
Check employee and manager names plus compensation references before anything changes.
Feedback themes, goals and dates remain visible while identity-bearing values become placeholders.
Recheck the output, download the anonymized copy, then use it with the AI tool.
Document-specific review
The detector suggests candidates; you decide what changes. For this workflow, start with the fields below and add custom findings when the document contains a unique name, project, matter or identifier.
Privacy boundary
Human checkpoint
Employment records are sensitive; redaction is a preparation step and does not replace HR or legal review.
A verified export confirms accepted values were handled. It does not promise that an automated detector found every sensitive detail.
What a useful output looks like
Stable placeholders let the AI distinguish one party from another without receiving the original names. Keep the clauses, dates and relationships the task needs; replace the details that identify the people, companies or matter.
Before you share the copy
Yes. Names and identifiers are replaced with placeholders while the relevant content remains readable.
Dates, roles, policies and other non-identity content remain in the exported copy.
Yes, for preparing reviewed copies; original records should still follow your HR and data-protection policies.
Local document workspace
Keep the original local, make the decisions yourself, and export a copy you can inspect.