Regulated unstructured data for AI on Databricks

Your Unstructured Data Is the Goldmine Your AI Teams Can't Safely Use.

Loan files, claims, clinical notes, identity documents, images, and call recordings contain the context your AI teams need — and the regulated information they cannot expose.

GritRedact de-identifies regulated content within each artifact at the source — before it enters Databricks, is indexed or embedded, or is used by RAG and agents.

Databricks governs access. GritRedact removes exposure.

BankingInsuranceHealthcareLegal
Synthetic demonstration data — no real personal information
22222
VOID
a  Employee's social security number521-47-8392
For Official Use Only ▸OMB No. 1545-0029
b  Employer identification number (EIN)12-4785396
c  Employer's name, address, and ZIP codeGritworks Technology LLC
4125 Westbrook Corporate Center, Ste 240
San Bernardino, CA 92408
d  Control numberCNT-982144
e  Employee's first name and initialSIMRAN
Last namePATEL
Suff.Ms
f  Employee's address and ZIP code742 Evergreen, Apt 3B
Los Angeles, CA 90026
1 Wages, tips, other comp.112,000.00
2 Federal income tax withheld14,160.00
3 Social security wages115,200.00
4 Social security tax withheld7,142.40
5 Medicare wages and tips115,200.00
6 Medicare tax withheld1,670.40
7 Social security tips
8 Allocated tips
9
10 Dependent care benefits0.00
11 Nonqualified plans0.00
12a See inst. for box 12D4,560.00
13
Statutory
Retirement plan
3rd-party sick pay
12bDD7,800.00
14 OtherCA SDI 1,314.00
12c
15 StateCA
Employer's state ID no.123-4567
16 State wages, tips112,000.00
17 State income tax3,180.00
18 Local wages, tips0.00
19 Local income tax0.00
20 Locality0.00
Form W-2Wage and Tax Statement
2025
Department of the Treasury — Internal Revenue Service
Raw · contains PII Identity → consistent tokens · structure and non-sensitive values preserved Swipe to inspect the full synthetic W-2
Why we're needed

Masking extracted text does not de-identify the source artifact.

Many pipelines mask PII in extracted text before embedding. The source page can still remain unchanged — stored, linked, retrieved, rendered, or exported with the identifiers intact.

Raw artifact

A document enters

W-2 · loan file · check image · clinical note
partially handled
The text stream
PII can be masked in extracted text
Useful for text retrieval, but it does not alter the source file.
still exposed
The artifact
The original page persists — PII/PHI still on it
It can remain in storage, stay linked to retrieved chunks, appear in answers, or move into exports and training sets.

The text may be masked. The source artifact can still remain exposed.

Text extraction + indexing common path

Masking can protect the extracted text

It does not automatically change the page or image linked to that text.

Visual embeddings increasingly used

The image is embedded directly

There may be no extracted-text layer where masking can intervene. De-identifying the source image before indexing prevents the raw artifact from entering the workflow unchanged.

GritRedact de-identifies the source artifact before either path begins.

But isn't that what governance is for?
"Unity Catalog already governs the data."

Unity Catalog governs access, lineage, and auditability across the lakehouse. GritRedact performs a different job: it de-identifies sensitive content inside the artifact before ingestion. The two layers work together — governance controls who can use the data, while source-side de-identification reduces what can be exposed when the artifact is indexed, retrieved, rendered, shared, or exported.

In and beyond your Databricks stack

One insertion point makes regulated artifacts reusable across your AI stack.

GritRedact runs inside your environment and creates a de-identified derivative before the artifact is ingested. Lakeflow Connect or your existing data pipelines can then move the safe output into Databricks, where it can flow into the search, vector, agent, or model stack you choose.

Swipe to follow the full pipeline →
Source
File shares · ECM · SharePoint
GritRedact
De-identify at source
on-prem · zero-egress
Ingest / orchestrate
Lakeflow Connect
or existing data pipelines
Land & govern
Unity Catalog Volumes
Delta metadata · audit trail
Index or embed
AI search or vector store
Databricks or external
Build & use
RAG · agents · training
your chosen stack
◀ raw data remains inside your environmentde-identified derivative from here on ▶

Use Lakeflow Connect or your existing pipelines for ingestion, then Databricks AI Search, an external vector database, or your existing retrieval layer downstream. GritRedact makes the artifact safe before those architectural choices are made.

At the source

Create the safe derivative

Detect and de-identify regulated content in text, handwriting, images, faces, signatures, and spoken words before the artifact moves.

Inside Databricks

Govern the clean asset

Land de-identified artifacts in Unity Catalog Volumes, with associated metadata and audit records available in Delta.

Beyond Databricks

Use the stack you choose

Index, retrieve, train, evaluate, or share through Databricks-native services or external AI systems without propagating the original identifiers.

Where it fits best

Use the same de-identified artifact across internal and external workflows.

Internal-facing

Copilots your staff use

Ground copilots and RAG on de-identified artifacts rather than raw files or raw embeddings.

  • Loan-mod & servicing assistants
  • Claims-adjuster copilots
  • Underwriting & intake review
  • Case & document research agents
External-facing

Anything that leaves the building

Share, export, train, evaluate, or disclose without propagating the original identifiers.

  • Vendor & partner data sharing
  • Model training & fine-tuning sets
  • Customer-facing AI products
  • Regulatory & legal disclosure

The protection travels with the data because the artifact itself was de-identified before it moved.

Coverage

One de-identification layer across every modality your data hides in.

Documents & forms

Typed and handwritten

W-2s, loan files, claim packets, underwriting docs, clinical notes, legal filings — fields and free-hand alike.

Images

The page that gets reused

Check images, scans, and photographed documents. We de-identify the pixels before the image is indexed, retrieved, or reused.

Audio

The recording itself

Contact-center, servicing, and dispute recordings. We detect and de-identify sensitive spoken content before downstream use.

Start with de-identification

Make real data safe. Create synthetic data when real data is not available.

GritRedact

Make real artifacts AI-ready

De-identify documents, images, and audio so they can enter Databricks, feed retrieval, and support agents without carrying the original identifiers downstream.

GritRender

Build before production access

Need usable data before live regulated data is available? Generate structurally realistic synthetic documents, images, and audio for development, testing, and evaluation.

Proven on the hardest data

When the artifact is a regulated record, the bar is high.

Production deploymentLargest US diagnostics companyProtected health information at scale
Enterprise pilotMajor US health insurerClaims & member intake artifacts
Technical evaluationTop-tier US bankImage-heavy transaction records
Private de-identification test

You can't send the data out. So we come in.

Choose one representative artifact. We run GritRedact inside your environment and show the de-identified output, metadata, and audit trail. Raw data stays under your control.