AI use policy
Last updated 23 August 2026.
This is the first question a careful parent should ask an admissions service in 2026. Here is the answer.
The short version
No AI tool writes your personal statement, your motivation letter, or the feedback we give you. Every word of advice you receive from us is written by us, after reading your work ourselves.
Where AI is used
In some cases we use AI tools as a research aid, for example when assembling deadline tables or checking where a particular programme sits in a national admissions system. It is used the way a search engine is used: to find candidate information quickly.
No information reaches you on the strength of an AI tool alone. Anything found this way is verified by us against the primary source, the university, the national admissions body or UCAS, before it is used in your work or published on this site. Where a fact could not be verified against a primary source, it is either left out or explicitly marked as unconfirmed.
Why the distinction matters
Language models produce fluent, confident text that is sometimes simply wrong. Here the failure is specific and expensive: an invented deadline, a programme called open when it is numerus fixus, a fee rule that applied two cycles ago, a ranking requirement that does not exist. These errors read exactly like the correct answer. Act on one and you can miss a deadline that does not come round again for a year.
That risk is the reason verification is a stated part of this service rather than an assumption.
UCAS and academic integrity
UCAS's published guidance is that generating all or most of a personal statement with AI "could be considered cheating". Applicants formally declare that their statement is their own and not taken from another source, AI software included, and UCAS operates similarity screening; an application found in breach can be cancelled. UCAS does permit AI for brainstorming, structuring, and editing for readability.
Read it directly: UCAS on using AI with your personal statement.
This service is built to sit on the correct side of that line by design, not by promise. We do not generate text on your behalf, so there is nothing for a similarity check to find and nothing you would have to explain at interview.
What this means for you
- Your statement remains your own work, and you can say so truthfully in the UCAS declaration.
- You can be asked about any sentence in it at interview and answer, because you wrote it.
- Factual claims we give you about deadlines, caps and requirements have been checked against the source, not generated.
If you would like to know exactly how a particular piece of information was arrived at, ask and we will tell you.