Introducing Live Detect with Conseal
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Conseal has always protected the documents you've finished. Live Detect protects what you're writing right now. As you type or paste into an AI tool, it flags names, numbers, emails, and other identifiers, and hides them in one click, before anything is sent. It works in email, chat, and documents too, for the times you share details someone doesn't need. Like everything in Conseal, it runs entirely on your machine.
It's the feature you asked for most: a way to catch a client's name before it goes into an AI tool, not after.
What can I help with?
How Live Detect works
- Summarize Jane Doe’s dispute with ABCD LLC1
Type as usualWrite wherever you normally write. Each time you pause, Live Detect checks the text box you're in and underlines anything sensitive.
- Summarize Jane Doe’s dispute with ABCD LLC22
Spot the tagA small Conseal tag in the corner of the box counts what it found. Open it to see every item and the label it will get.
- Summarize [PERSON_1]’s dispute with [ORG_1]3
Hide in a clickChoose Hide all, or press Control-Option-N. Each value is replaced with a label like [PERSON_1], right where it was.
Everything Live Detect brings
Hide all of it, or just a part. The shortcut hides the whole box, or only the text you've selected. In the list, you can hide or show any single item.
You make the call. Mark an item as not sensitive and it stays as you wrote it. Select something Live Detect didn't flag, add it yourself, and choose its category.
One label per person, in every app. The same value keeps the same label across every app for your whole session, so a conversation still reads naturally, wherever it happens.
Works where you write. Your browser, including AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude, plus Microsoft Teams, Apple Mail, TextEdit, Pages, and Numbers. You choose the apps during setup and can change them anytime.
Get the real text back. When an AI tool or a colleague replies with labels in it, paste the reply into Restore text and the original values come back, ready to use.
Here’s a draft: Hi [PERSON_1], Thanks for the update on the second warehouse site. To protect the March launch for [ORG_1], we’d recommend scoping it as a separate phase with its own budget. Happy to send a short proposal this week.
Always within reach. The Conseal icon in your menu bar shows the same list for whatever box you're in, along with Pause for 1 hour, Turn off in this app, and Restore text.
Private by design
Live Detect uses the same detection as Fast Mode, entirely on your machine. Nothing you type is uploaded, stored on a server, or seen by us.
- Google Chrome
- Microsoft Teams
- Pages
- Numbers
Live Detect is on in 4 apps. What you typed is forgotten when you close the app you typed it in, or after 30 minutes unused. Everything stays on your machine.
- Values are kept in memory only, never saved. They're forgotten when you close the app you typed them in, or after 15, 30, or 60 minutes unused. You can also have them forgotten whenever your screen locks, or clear them right away from Settings.
- On any page with a password field, Live Detect steps back on its own. You can turn it on for that page whenever you want.
- Turn it off for any app, or pause it for an hour, straight from the menu bar.
Faster scans
Protecting whole documents is faster too. Intelligent Mode now finishes up to 2.5 times sooner on dense documents like rosters, tables, and statements, and about 1.6 times sooner across a mixed set of contracts, court filings, tax returns, and medical records.
Fast Mode, faster. On Apple Silicon Macs, Fast Mode runs about 1.8 times faster.
Always in view. Progress moves steadily as each page is read, and longer scans show roughly how much time is left.
Improvements
Conseal 2.0 also refines everything around Live Detect. It understands more of your documents, including images, and recognizes names and identifiers more accurately. Reviewing what it found is quicker and clearer. Scans run smoothly from start to finish, Pause and Cancel respond right away, and even complex documents save cleanly. And when you need us, support is one click away, with your documents always kept out of anything you share.
Get started
Live Detect is included in every Conseal plan, starting with Conseal 2.0. If you already use Conseal, it updates itself to 2.0, or you can check now from Settings, then Updates. Then turn on Live Detect in Settings, choose your apps, and start typing. New to Conseal? It's $29.99/month with a 7-day free trial, and every plan includes unlimited redactions.
Thank you to everyone who asked for this. Keep the ideas coming at support@conseal.ai.
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