SecureRelease vs Socianote

SecureRelease is a cloud, web-based platform for federal, state, and local governments and higher education organizations managing FOIA and other disclosure requests. It covers intake, review, release, and appeals, with workflow automation and reporting dashboards. Built on Relativity’s eDiscovery tool, it identifies potential duplicate documents during ingestion, extracts searchable text, and organizes data with analytics. Advanced search and eDiscovery analytics support review. Redaction templates contain commonly exempt terms, and manual changes are used to improve later redaction accuracy and completeness. SecureRelease connects with disclosure management systems and technologies including FOIA.gov and Pay.gov. Deloitte describes SaaS delivery in its FedRAMP-authorized Moderate cloud, meeting FedRAMP Moderate, FISMA, NIST 800-53 Rev. 4, and DoD MAC II sensitive baselines. Supporting infrastructure is isolated from Deloitte’s commercial infrastructure and uses FIPS 140-2 compliant encryption. Deloitte also offers FOIA managed services. Pricing is available on request.

Socianote is a cloud platform for organisations managing programmes, people and case-related documents. It combines case intake forms, workflow automation, audit trails and reporting dashboards with real-time caseload visibility and overdue-review alerts. Admins can approve intake requests, reassign cases and export organisational data. CSV imports cover people, volunteers, programmes, enrolments and case shells; exports are available as CSV, PDF and per-person files. The free plan is indefinite, needs no credit card and supports up to 3 staff, 50 people, 1 programme and 200 documents. Starter is $99 a month for up to 5 staff, 500 people, 5 programmes and 2,000 documents. Plans are priced by organisation size rather than user count, and annual billing provides two months free, approximately 17% off. Web access is available, with participant and volunteer apps for iOS and Android on Enterprise. Data is encrypted at rest and in transit; staff TOTP MFA is available after enrollment. Each uploaded document is limited to 5 MB.