The research workbench that coaches, never writes for you.
A Socratic AI supervisor for South African postgraduates. We refuse to draft your proposal — instead, we prepare you to defend it.
- Probes your question with four tests: researchable, gap, specific, feasible
- Labs, literature library, milestones and a proposal builder in one workspace
- Exportable .docx proposal you can hand to your supervisor
System readiness
Aspiring to serve students from South Africa to the world
University of Cape Town
University of the Witwatersrand
Stellenbosch University
University of Pretoria
What the system actually does
Six connected tools, one research workflow. From a vague topic to a defensible, exportable proposal.
Socratic supervisor
A dialogue engine that refuses to write for you. It probes your question against the four tests — researchable, gap, specific, feasible — and adapts to your degree level and discipline.
Question versioning
- Every iteration saved and scored
- See which tests it still fails and why
- Track how your thinking evolves
Labs
Literature library
Milestones & dashboard
Proposal builder
Per-section AI critique, never AI writing. Autosaved as you draft, with a clean .docx export ready for your supervisor.
Autosave
Every keystroke, private to you.
Export
.docx, formatted for review.
A defensible proposal, not a generated one.
A question that survives supervision
Sharpened until it can withstand your supervisor's first three questions — not just phrased well.
A literature base you can defend
Every paper summarised with the gap it leaves open, so your review makes an argument, not a list.
A milestone plan tied to your submission
Auto-seeded from your real deadline. Tells you what to work on next — not a generic template.
A proposal draft that is entirely yours
Every sentence written by you, critiqued section by section. Complete process log for academic integrity review.
Proof of concept · v0.9
All six phases of the tutor engine are live. Ready for pilot cohorts; not yet hardened for institution-wide rollout.
- ✓ Socratic supervisor with four-test gating
- ✓ Process logs and question versioning
- ✓ Literature library with PDF ingestion
- ✓ Milestones and smart dashboard
- ✓ Proposal builder with .docx export
- ✓ Admin dashboard and role-based access
- ◐ Supervisor accounts and cohort analytics
- ◐ Citation manager and reference export
Composite readiness
/ 10 · highly stable