Mentafy: academic integrity for the AI era

Built by the founding team behind PlagScan, Mentafy helps schools and universities see what students did themselves and where AI or other help was involved. So good grades keep rewarding students’ own work, not access to better AI.

AI can help students write better papers. If it writes the whole paper, the skills the assignment was meant to build never develop. Classic plagiarism checkers miss AI-paraphrased text, and AI detectors deliver probabilities, not evidence. What remains is documenting how the work came about, so each student’s own contribution becomes visible.

Two products, one system

Mentafy Check examines the finished text and replaces your current plagiarism or AI checker, with no policy change needed.

• Plagiarism matching plus S³ Semantic Source Search for paraphrases and translations
• Reference Verifier for hallucinated references
• AI classification as an indicator, never a verdict

Mentafy Trail documents how the work was written. Everything in Check, plus:

• Writing Process Analysis: how the text grew, in Word, Google Docs, or any other program
• Research Recorder: which sources were collected and which were used
• Real-time citation feedback while students write

A short clause in your assessment policy tells students upfront what Trail documents. Start with Check and add Trail once your policy allows, with no system switch.

Both feed one Authorship Report, where no finding rests on a single signal and the decision stays with the educator.

Who benefits

Students get feedback and can show their own work. Educators see how each paper developed. Institutions keep their learning objectives and guidelines while allowing productive AI use.

Documentation, not surveillance: no keylogging, no webcam. GDPR-compliant, servers in Germany.

Next step: ask your Mentafy partner for a demo or a free Integrity Baseline Audit of anonymized past papers.