Acceptable Use and Academic Integrity Policy

Last updated: August 2026

Tesify exists to strengthen student writing and learning, never to replace them. This policy explains what the tool does, what it does not do, and how we expect it to be used so that student work remains genuinely their own.

The principle: authorship stays with the student

The ideas, arguments and conclusions in a thesis or dissertation must be the student’s. Tesify organises structure, suggests improvements on what the student already wrote, builds citations and allows the student to check their own originality. It does not draft the work, and it does not relieve the student of understanding and answering for everything they submit.

What Tesify does

Structure: organises the document into coherent chapters and sections.
Writing support: suggests phrasing and improves the clarity of paragraphs already written.
Citations and references: applies the faculty’s required style.
Originality check: flags passages worth citing better or rewriting, before submission.
Formatting and export: leaves the document ready in Word, PDF or LaTeX.

What Tesify does not do

It does not write a paper from scratch for a student to present as their own without having contributed anything.
It is not an artificial intelligence detector and does not identify which students used a chatbot.
It does not guarantee that a submission will pass any detection system, and it is not a tool for evading institutional controls.
It does not invent data, sources or citations. Every source must be real, verifiable and checked by its author.
It does not replace an institution’s regulations, a supervisor’s instructions, or a student’s duty to declare the tools they used where that is required.

Uses we do not accept

Using Tesify to generate work the student did not meaningfully write, to invent citations or data, to circumvent an institution’s integrity rules, or to present as entirely original a work produced with artificial intelligence assistance where declaration is required, is a breach of these terms. We reserve the right to suspend accounts used in a way incompatible with the purpose of the tool.

Institutional rules take precedence

Academic integrity rules vary between institutions, faculties and programmes. Some require declaration of artificial intelligence tools; others restrict their use further. Students are responsible for knowing and following the rules of their programme, and institutions remain the authority on what is permitted in their own assessments. Where an institution’s policy is stricter than this one, the institution’s policy governs.

Contact

Questions about this policy: legal@tesify.app.