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# Make sensitive unstructured data usable

## Instantly redact sensitive PII from text and audio to safely train models, and secure real-time agentic workflows. Get the essential privacy layer for every LLM interaction.

### Best-in-class detection

Our best-in-class models provide out-of-the-box support for common entities, **with unlimited flexibility to design your own** – with support across 50+ languages, delivering the accuracy your business demands.

### Realistic synthesis

Redact or synthesize sensitive entities consistently, without compromising quality or context, ensuring data is suitable for model training and other scenarios where data realism is critical.

### Certifiable compliance

Whether it's HIPAA, GDPR, PCI, or another requirement, Tonic has established partnerships with Expert Determination providers to certify compliance for your use case.

### Enterprise-grade control and collaboration

Essential security features like Role-based-access controls (RBAC) and SSO integrations to ensure the highest levels of protection across your data, and dataset sharing within the UI for easy collaboration.

### Seamless detection refinement

New feature

Continuously improve Textual’s detection accuracy specific to your data and create new categories of entities beyond what’s available out of the box. **Custom Entity Types** lets you easily train models on your own data via a simple UI (no data science expertise required).

### All your data, any format

Tonic Textual supports virtually all unstructured data formats — from free text to audio – simply feed your data into the Textual SDK or upload your files through the UI or with the Tonic SDK to quickly generate privacy-protected assets that are ready for downstream usage.

## See Textual protect your data in real-time

Our proprietary NER models automatically identify entities in your text data to prevent potential privacy vulnerabilities in your AI development. Textual can de-identify any sensitive entities it detects via redaction or synthesis.

### Unstructured data de-identification for every use case

### In AI model training

Retain your data’s richness and preserve its statistics by replacing PII with synthetic values, to ensure optimal model training for LLM fine-tuning and custom models.

### In RAG systems

Provide LLMs redacted data while optionally exposing the unredacted text to approved users. Automate pipelines to extract and normalize unstructured data into AI-ready formats.

### In LLM workflows

Redact sensitive information prior to using it within LLM prompts to prevent sensitive values from ever entering the chatbot system.

### In your lower environments

Accelerate data science based development with realistic test data that ensures data utility and data privacy throughout your lower environments.

### A holistic platform for all of your data

Regardless of whether you are working with structured or unstructured data – or you need to fabricate realistic synthetic documents because none exist – Tonic.ai provides a suite of solutions to unblock your AI/ML initiatives and keep them moving forward.

### Support for all your data formats

90% of enterprise intelligence is locked up in files across the business. With Textual, you can unlock unstructured enterprise data however and wherever it’s stored:

- .csv
- .txt
- .pdf
- XML
- HTML
- JSON
- .pptx
- .docx
- .png
- .jpeg
- .xls
- + more

## Deploy Textual on the cloud or self-hosted

### Accessible where your data lives

Deploy Textual seamlessly into your own cloud environment through native integrations with cloud object stores, including S3, GCS, and Azure Blob Storage, or leverage our cloud-hosted service.

### Available through your cloud provider

Burn down your cloud commitments by procuring Textual via the Snowflake Marketplace, AWS Marketplace, and Google Cloud Marketplace.

### Or deploy self-hosted

For the utmost in data security and control, deploy Textual on premises using Kubernetes or Docker, in the event that your data is too sensitive to live on the cloud.

### Frequently asked questions

### What is Tonic Textual?

Tonic Textual is an unstructured data redaction and synthesis solution. It's designed to safely process free-text and audio files, including support tickets, clinical notes, chat logs, and internal documents while preserving meaning and usability.

### How does Tonic Textual handle sensitive information in text?

Tonic Textual uses proprietary Named Entity Recognition models to identify and transform sensitive entities like names, emails, addresses, account numbers, and domain specific identifiers. The result is privacy-safe text that still reads naturally and remains analytically useful.

### Can Tonic Textual be used for AI and LLM training?

Yes. It enables organizations to train and evaluate AI models on realistic text data while reducing privacy risk and improving compliance posture.

### How is Tonic Textual different from basic redaction tools?

Unlike simple redaction, Tonic Textual preserves context, intent, and structure, making the data usable for analysis, search, and model development. It significantly streamlines redaction via automation and enables the detection of custom sensitive information, as well.
