Data export — PDF, DOCX, share links, workspace archive

FedGrade exports come in four shapes, tiered by what you need to do with the output. Every export carries the workspace ID, generation timestamp, and (on Government tier) a per-user watermark.

Brief PDF — Free and up

The default Brief export. Click "Export → PDF" on any Brief at /today or /today/archive/{date}. The PDF preserves:

• Synthesized prose with confidence chips inline
• Footnoted citations with the verbatim substring quoted
• Source URLs and retrieval timestamps in the footer
• Workspace ID and generation date in the header

PDFs are generated on-demand by FedGrade's own PDF writer — no browser engine or third-party renderer is involved, which keeps generation fast and the dependency surface small. Generation is typically under three seconds; complex Briefs with many citations can take up to ten.

Brief DOCX — Pro and up

DOCX export ships the same content as the PDF but in a Word-editable format. Useful when the Brief feeds a longer capture memo or proposal. The DOCX preserves citation footnotes as Word footnotes (not endnotes); the confidence chips render as inline shaded text.

The DOCX renderer is hand-rolled — no Microsoft dependency. Footnote linking, paragraph styles, and the workspace header all work in Word 2016+, LibreOffice, and Google Docs (via import).

Share links — Pro and up

Share links generate a read-only public URL for a Brief, viewable without a FedGrade account. Use this to forward a Brief to a sales engineer, an executive, or an external partner.

• Pro: Share links are public-but-unguessable (cryptographic slug). No expiry by default.
• Team: Share links additionally support comments from authenticated viewers.
• Enterprise: Share links support per-link expiry (24h, 7d, 30d, custom) and watermarking.
• Government: Share links are always watermarked with the recipient identity captured at link-claim.

Share links are revocable at /today/archive/{date} → "Manage shares."

Workspace archive — Pro and up

Export the entire workspace as a tarball: every Brief in the archive, every saved search, every case with evidence, every persona configuration. The archive ships as a .tar.gz containing:

• briefs/{date}.json — one per archived Brief, with full citations
• saved_searches/{id}.json — saved-search definitions and recent results
• cases/{id}/ — case metadata + evidence files
• personas.json — persona configurations
• manifest.json — workspace ID, export timestamp, file checksums (SHA-256)

Generation runs asynchronously. Click "Export workspace" at /settings/data and you receive an email when the tarball is ready (typically under five minutes for workspaces under 1 GB).

Format matrix

See Audit log for the audit-log export shape.