Guarantee clear and verifiable documentation of a paper’s authenticity with Mentafy’s comprehensive report.
Verifiable evidence of authorship beyond plagiarism checkers.
Identify AI-generated, AI-revised, and cited content.
Showcase the writing AND research process.
The first page of the Authorship Report presents a concise overview of key writing behaviors, showcasing essential metrics that validate the originality of the work.
Unusual Text Percentage
Uses a color-coded system (green, yellow, red) for a first indicator of personal contribution in the text. Below, a detailed breakdown highlights sections classified as AI-generated, cited, and more.
Words Per Sequence
Another measure of personal contribution: We can distinguish natural, gradual writing behavior from large copy&paste content insertions.
Text Creation Timeline
Shows engagement trends, highlighting the timeline distribution of the efforts invested in the document.
What About Plagiarism Checking?
When a text is identified as a copy, we will search for and indicate the source of the text from the web and publisher data bases.
Our report provides a comprehensive documentation of the entire research and writing process, ensuring that originality is clearly documented and verifiable.
An overview of the writing project, with the most important data.
Time: See amount and duration of actively writing.
Research: See amount and type of resources used.
Feedback: What feedback was given and solved.
Easily track and classify copied text to document them properly as:
Self-Written: Content you wrote yourself elsewhere and copied into your document.
Cited: Properly referenced material.
AI-Generated: Text created by an AI tool.
AI-Revised: Existing text modified using AI.
The writing journal chronologically records your work across research and writing.
Text added: daily writing statistics
Notes: written, audio and foto notes
Research: Uploads of papers, data, images, etc.
How to Use Mentafy in 5 Steps
Start Your Writing Project
Begin your work in a cloud-based tool (e.g., Google Docs, MS Word with autosave) to preserve revision history.
Note: Writing is already finished? Generate your report here.
Check the Synchronization with Mentafy
Mentafy analyzes document changes, ensuring a complete writing timeline documentation.
Note: Copy&paste a paragraph into the document - Mentafy will ask you for a citation.
Close Your Project in Mentafy
Once you have completed your writing, you must close your project to generate the Authorship Report.
The Analysis
Mentafy analyzes the metadata from the writing process. This includes all the local source alerts, that were already reported during the writing plus a final holistic analysis across the whole document.
Review & Share Your Report
Examine detailed writing insights and verify the originality of your work.
If deeper analysis is needed, use the In-Document View.
Instead of focusing solely on the final result, we emphasize the writing journey – and the instructor can be a part of the ride.
What is it?
A real-time snapshot of your work-in-progress, helping you monitor your process and ensure transparency while you write.
Note: This is a condensed version of the Authorship Report.
Our Status Report includes
Writing Journal (optional): Documentation of the work process with system data and custom author notes
Source Alerts: Flags all the copied text (typed or pasted) and indicates, where a citation is required.
Source List: Documents research material (images, articles, website links, etc.), which has been added to the project.
Here you can review our writing process analysis directly within the document’s text. This helps you understand precisely why a section was flagged, with a detailed breakdown of writing and editing behaviors.
Our In- Document View can be used selectively – most importantly when the Authorship Report indicates that further investigation is necessary (High Risk).
Note: For the vast majority of the students this won’t be necessary.
Find quick answers to common questions below and enjoy your experience with us!
If you need further assistance, check our FAQ or contact support.
Authorship Report
Unlike standard plagiarism checkers that only compare text against databases, the Advanced Authorship Report tracks and documents the entire writing process, proving how a document was written, not just whether parts were copied.
The Authorship Report offers a quick authenticity check, highlighting key indicators such as the percentage of flagged text and words per revision. If the writing is incomplete, you can generate a status report instead.
No! The Advanced Authorship Report you can generate once your writing project is complete, ensuring you have full documentation of your work.
Our technology (link to writing pattern) recognizes every text inserted in the document that is not human written. Via the Source Alerts system the text gets categorized as own-work, cited, AI-generated or AI-revised.
Yes, you can generate a report for documents you have already written before! The only prerequisite is that there is a version history of the document, meaning it should be written in storage/ cloud e.g. Google Docs.
The system uses writing pattern analysis and real-time tracking to differentiate between AI-generated and human-written text. By analyzing keystrokes, writing speed, and document evolution, it reduces false positives and ensures that genuine student work is not unfairly flagged.
Yes, Mentafy can track patterns that indicate AI-assisted typing, including unusually consistent typing speeds and unnatural pauses. This helps detect cases where students try to bypass detection by gradually pasting AI-generated content or using advanced AI tools.
Status Report
The Status Report provides real-time tracking of your writing and research progress. It helps students and educators monitor how a document is developed over time, ensuring transparency in writing habits and proper source attribution.
Based on the data that is shown in the status report you can check whether it meets your guidelines. For example, you can see if you have enough credible references and most importantly it helps you check if you have categorized all your source alerts.
Through our writing pattern analysis Mentafy recognizes any external text entered in the document which is not written by the writer. The Status Report shows a summary of source alerts, and their categorization of the text inserted, that being: Own work, AI-generated, AI-revised, or cited. This ensures transparency in how content was created and modified.
The Status Report is a real-time tracking tool, which can be generated during the process of writing. The Authorship Report, on the other hand, is a comprehensive summary of the entire writing process, providing full documentation of authorship and originality only after the project is completed.
Yes. One of the key benefits of the Status Report is that it allows students to identify and fix citation errors, AI overuse, and writing inconsistencies (procrastination) before finalizing their work.
No, the Status Report runs in the background without interfering with your workflow. It simply tracks writing behaviors and content changes to provide transparency without disrupting your progress.
Yes. You can download and share the Status Report as a PDF for documentation or review purposes, either for yourself or you can share it with your supervisor and reflect on it together.
Students who want to ensure their writing is transparent and properly cited.
Educators who need insights into how a document was developed.
Institutions enforcing academic integrity and responsible AI usage.
Yes. The Status Report tracks the evolution of a document, including sudden text insertions. If a large portion of text appears without normal typing behavior, it will be flagged, helping educators identify potential misuse of AI.
Mentafy only analyzes document version history and writing patterns; it does not store personal data beyond what is necessary for report generation. Transparency and student privacy are top priorities in all tracking features.