Keeping Respondent Data Safe with the ResearchWiseAI PII Scanner

Protecting respondent privacy is table stakes for modern research. Our PII Scanner makes it painless by doing the heavy lifting in your browser, before sensitive data ever leaves your machine.

Browser-first architecture

Upload a CSV or Excel file and the scanner runs entirely on your device. There is no server round trip, no logging, and no copy stored on, or even sent to, ResearchWiseAI infrastructure.

Under the hood we combine deterministic pattern recognition with AI-powered entity detection. That means we catch obvious items like email addresses and credit cards while also flagging free-form mentions of names or locations.

What the scanner detects today

• Email addresses, phone numbers, IP addresses, and credit card numbers.

• People names, even when they appear inside longer sentences.

Redacted results download as a clean file.

What’s next

What would you like to see the PII Scanner support?