Support for the whole
postgraduate journey.
One platform, two sides of the same research journey — a Research Companion for Masters and Doctoral students, and a supervision dashboard that gives supervisors visibility without another check-in meeting.
A note on university standards
Document Assessment adapts to a student's own institution's guidelines when a supervisor provides them. Our full evaluation tools — Pre-Check, Thesis Check, and Research Proposal / Thesis Evaluation — currently apply Africa Research University's (ARU) official rubric. Full rubrics for other universities are planned.
Akili Research Companion
For Masters and Doctoral students alike — a research companion available on WhatsApp and the web, with tools that evaluate your work before your supervisor sees it, and help you fix what needs fixing.
Evaluation & Improvement
How Akili Works With You
Akili will never write your thesis for you. It guides you through the writing and research process the same way an academic supervisor would — through feedback, structure, and direction, never by producing your work for you.
Pre-Check
A pre-submission proposal evaluator — scores your Cover Page, Chapter 1, Chapter 2, and Chapter 3 against the official rubric, with an examiner-style report and verdict.
Thesis Check
The same pre-submission evaluation for a full thesis or dissertation, section by section, with a scoresheet across every chapter.
Improve
Pick a section that scored low on Thesis Check and Akili edits it directly — real edits only, tracked as Word comments, never inventing data or citations. Every edit stays within ethical academic boundaries — Akili strengthens your own writing, it never writes on your behalf in a way that would compromise academic integrity.
Revisions
Upload your supervisor's marked-up document and Akili applies the tracked changes and comments, producing a clean revised draft with every change explained. As with Improve, every applied change respects ethical academic boundaries — nothing is added or altered beyond what your supervisor's own markup calls for.
Seven Feedback Tools
Proposal Advisor
Feedback on your problem statement, objectives, theoretical framework, and feasibility.
Document Assessment
Structured six-dimension assessment for any chapter, abstract, or proposal — calibrated to your institution when guidelines are on file.
Reference Checker
Cross-checks in-text citations against your reference list and flags Harvard formatting issues.
Writing Coach
Feedback on academic register, clarity, paragraph structure, and word choice.
Literature Advisor
Assesses synthesis quality, gap articulation, critical engagement, and source currency.
Methodology Advisor
Identifies your paradigm, design, and methods, and checks they're internally consistent.
Academic Integrity Check
Flags passages that may need attribution, based on internal textual evidence.
Your Research Journey
22-stage journey map
From Topic Identification to Defence Preparation — the full journey, mapped for both Masters and Doctoral students, not doctoral candidates only.
Always Available
WhatsApp + web, one conversation
Chat on WhatsApp or the web dashboard — it's the same conversation either way, so you can pick up on whichever is in front of you.
Akili Supervisor
Everything you need to see about every student's progress, without requiring a single additional check-in.
Visibility
Full dashboard
Every student's activity, chapter submissions, and progress notes in one place.
Two progress views
A Milestone Tracker you can toggle between a 5-chapter and 7-chapter format to match your student's programme, plus the same 22-stage Research Journey view your student sees.
Student conversation visibility
Recent Research Companion activity is shown for supervisor awareness — to help you understand what a student is working on between sessions.
Feedback & Assessment
Structured feedback
A verdict, written comments, and a visibility toggle — tied to a specific assessment, not a loose comment thread.
In-document Word markup
Genuine, editable Word comments written directly into a student's document — review, edit, and send from your own portal.
RP & Thesis evaluation tooling
Full scoresheet evaluation for research proposals and theses, with an editable examiner report and verdict.
Weekly WhatsApp Digest
Every Monday, one message with everything that needs your attention:
Inactive students
No activity for 20 or more days.
New submissions
Assessed in the last 7 days.
Pending feedback
Assessed, but no feedback sent yet.
Stalled progress
No movement for 30 or more days at the same stage.
Beyond Your Own Students
External Examiner support
Evaluate a proposal for any student at any university, in an external examiner capacity.
Africa Research University (ARU) Co-Supervision resource
A reference panel covering Africa Research University's mandatory co-supervision requirement and publication authorship order.
Other Universities Supervision Requirements
A reference panel covering other universities' requirements will be added as the need arises.
Akili doesn't replace the supervisor — it removes repetitive work so supervision time is faster and more effective.