For reviewers

I got a review request from Pishik — what is this?

Someone at a company you work with uses Pishik to get documents reviewed. They sent you a request to look at a specific document and say whether you approve it or want changes. Pishik is simply the tool they use to send that request and collect your answer.

You don't need to create an account, remember a password, or install any software, and you won't be asked to pay for anything. The whole thing happens in your web browser and the editor you already use, and it usually takes a couple of minutes.

How to tell it's genuine

You need: nothing to set up — just the review email and the document link it points to.

A real Pishik review request will:

• name a company you recognize and a specific document to review;
• ask you to open that document in the company's own storage — SharePoint, OneDrive, or Google Drive — and to approve or reject on a Pishik page;
• come from the company's own email, carrying their name and logo, with replies going back to their team;
• never ask for your password, payment details, or to install anything.

Still unsure it's really from them? The safest check is to contact the person or company that sent it directly — using a phone number or email address you already have, rather than by replying to the message — and confirm they asked for your review.

Happy it's legitimate? Here's exactly what to do next: How to review.

How to review: open the document, redline, and decide

Reviewing takes three moves: open the document, mark it up if you need to, then approve or reject. Here's the whole thing.

You need: a web browser and the document link the company shared with you. Nothing to download or sign in to.

Illustration — sample data. Your real email shows the company's own name and logo.

1. Open the request email and press one of the document links (📄). It opens the document in the company's storage — SharePoint, OneDrive, or Google Drive — in Word, Google Docs, or whatever tool the file lives in.
2. Read it. If the company shared the file with editing turned on, add your comments, redlines, or tracked changes right there in the editor, exactly as you normally would. Your changes save in the document itself — Pishik never sees the file.
3. Back in the email, click Approve or Reject.
4. That opens a Pishik confirmation page. Nothing is recorded yet — this step is deliberate, so an email scanner or an accidental click can never decide for you. Check your choice, add an optional note for the team (if you're rejecting, a quick reason helps), then press Confirm approval or Confirm rejection.
5. You'll see a short confirmation that your decision was recorded, and the link closes. That's it — the team is notified automatically and the review moves on to whoever is next.

You decide once. The link is single-use, so once you confirm it closes for good. Confirmed by mistake, or need to change your answer? Ask the person who sent the request to reopen your review — they can send you a fresh link.

If you can only view the document

Whether you can redline depends on how the company shared the file. If it opens as view-only, you can still add your feedback in the note on the confirmation page, or reply to the sender and ask them to reshare it with editing turned on. If the link won't open at all, that's usually a sharing-permission issue — reply to the person who sent the request and ask them to reshare the document with you.

Your review link is personal, single-use, and expires — don't forward it

The link in your review email is meant for you alone. A few things are worth knowing about how it works.

• It's personal. The link is tied to you and your review — anyone who opens it could approve or reject as you. If a colleague should review instead, tell the person who sent the request; they can add or swap reviewers.
• It's single-use. Once you confirm a decision, the link closes and can't be used again. If you need to change your answer, ask the contract team to reopen your review.
• It expires. For security, review links stop working after a while. If yours has expired, just ask the contract team to resend your review email — the new link works right away.
• Reminders renew it. If the company sends you a reminder, it refreshes your link. Always use the most recent email from them — older links may have stopped working.
• A click isn't a decision. Because nothing is recorded until you press Confirm, a link that an email scanner follows, or one you open by accident, never decides anything for you.

Please don't forward your review email or its link. Need a colleague to take over? Ask the sender to reassign the review to them — that keeps everyone's decision attributed to the right person.

Your privacy: what Pishik stores about you, and how to be removed

To send you a review request, a company you work with added you to their reviewer list in Pishik. Here's exactly what that means for your data.

What Pishik stores about you

• Your name and email address — needed to send you the review link and address you by name.
• Optionally your job title and department, if the company added them to help organize their reviewers.
• The decisions you make — approve or reject, the date, and any note you write for the team.

That's the extent of it. Pishik never receives the documents themselves — they stay in the company's own storage — and you have no account or password with Pishik. The review and confirmation pages carry no third-party trackers or ads.

Who can see it

Your details and decisions are visible to the team that runs contracts at the company that added you. Pishik doesn't sell your information or share it with advertisers; how we handle data is set out in our Privacy Policy.

How to be removed, or stop the emails

The company that added you controls their own reviewer list, so the quickest route is to ask them directly.

1. Reply to the person or team that sent your review request and ask them to update or remove your contact details.
2. Can't reach them? Contact us and we'll help — we can pass your request to the workspace owner.

One thing to know: removing you from a reviewer list stops future requests and takes out your directory entry. Decisions you already recorded stay in that contract's history as part of its record — that's the audit trail the company relies on.