Academic integrity software
ScholarVera builds tools that show how scholarly work comes together — so assessment can be a conversation about writing, not a verdict handed down by a machine.
A score that says "73% AI" ends a conversation. A record of how the work was built begins one.
Most academic-integrity tools work by suspicion: they scan a finished document and return a probability that a student cheated. The number is unfalsifiable, the student has no way to answer it, and the faculty member is handed an accusation instead of a teaching moment.
ScholarVera takes the opposite stance. Our tools surface what actually happened — how a draft was assembled, whether a citation resolves to a real source — and frame it as something worth a conversation, never as a finding. The goal is authentic assessment in competency-based education, not automated policing.
That philosophy shapes the engineering. Where a tool can avoid collecting student work, it does. Where a signal could be read as a verdict, it isn't allowed to be.
WriteSight records the provenance of a document — the typing, pasting, and revision that built it — and stores that record inside the file itself. Nothing is sent to a server. The provenance travels with the document and reaches faculty as context for a conversation about the writing, framed as observations rather than conclusions.
Document-resident record · tamper-evident · Windows & Mac
Paste a reference list and the tool checks each citation against scholarly sources, flagging the ones that don't resolve to a real work. It is built around a single promise: it will never falsely confirm a fabricated source. The tool holds nothing — references go in, results come back, and no student writing is stored.
Never confirms a fake · no document storage · sortable results