For Universities & Colleges
Stop asking "did you write it?" Start asking "did you think with it?"
Unthinkit helps students get more from AI without surrendering the judgement — and gives faculty a Thinking Receipt they can actually grade. Not a detector. Not a ban. A way to think with the tool.
Free educator pilot access
Email us for a passcode. Test the engine free.
We're running paid-quality pilots with faculty, writing centres and academic integrity teams while we shape the rubric together. Email us from your .ac.uk address and we'll send a passcode plus a one-off voucher (typically 25–50 analyses) — full engine, no card required.
Why the current playbook is failing
Detectors don't work
False positives punish honest students. False negatives reward the rest. The arms race is unwinnable.
'AI-proof' assignments shrink the curriculum
Banning the tool teaches students nothing about the tool they'll use for the next 40 years.
Grading the artefact misses the learning
A polished essay tells you nothing about whether the student reasoned, or just accepted.
A different approach
Reasoning as the assessable artefact.
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Assign with the model, not against it
Students start from an automated answer — the same way they will at work.
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Think with the answer, at the right depth
They reveal the chain, name assumptions, open a Sapience Path when relevant, and reforge the answer with their own judgement.
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Submit a Thinking Receipt
A timestamped, structured artefact showing what they questioned, what they kept, what they changed and why.
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Grade the reasoning, not the prose
Faculty assess the journey from automated draft to reforged conclusion — the part a model cannot do for the student.
Who it's for
Built around the people doing the teaching.
Faculty
Drop-in assignment patterns, rubric language for evidence-of-reasoning, and worked examples by discipline.
Writing & learning centres
A tutoring companion students can sit with — surfacing weak links and blind spots without writing for them.
Academic integrity offices
An evidence-positive alternative to detection. Receipts, not accusations.
Programme leads
Cohort-level signals on how students are engaging with automated answers across a course.
The Thinking Receipt
"A timestamped record of the reasoning a student did on top of an automated answer — what they questioned, what they kept, what they changed, and why."
Evidence-positive. Discipline-agnostic. Grade-ready.
Pilot it with one course.
We work with a small number of institutions each term to run a single assignment through the gym, compare receipts, and shape the rubric with faculty. No platform integration required to start.