Supervisor time is scarce and the gaps between meetings are long. Esmond gives a doctoral-level second reading of a chapter in minutes, so the draft your supervisor sees has already been through one critical pass.
See how Esmond worksA PhD chapter is not judged as a long essay. Examiners look for a contribution: what this chapter adds to what is known, and how it connects to the thesis as a whole. They test whether you position your work precisely in the literature, whether your method can bear the weight of your claims, and whether you anticipate the obvious objections.
Choose 'PhD thesis or chapter' in the intake and Esmond reads your chapter with that expectation. You upload one part at a time, up to about 125 pages, at one fixed price per upload.
Each review ends with questions an examiner might ask. Collected over several chapters, they give you a list to rehearse before the viva voce. They are prompts to think about, not a prediction of what your examiners will ask.
MTU's guidance on AI in research theses notes that AI tools must not replace the researcher's intellectual contribution and asks for agreement with the supervisor first. Many institutions take a similar line, so agree with your supervisor before you use any AI tool on thesis material.
You upload your draft as a PDF. Short documents come back within minutes; a full dissertation takes longer. You get two things back: your own document with comments in the margin, and a separate feedback report that sets out what to tackle first. Every upload starts with a free preview, and the price follows the length of your document and is shown before you pay. No subscription, no account.
Esmond evaluates your work and writes nothing for you. Each comment points to a passage, explains what a supervisor or examiner might question, and gives a direction for revising it. You decide what to change, and every sentence stays yours.
Esmond is preparing its launch in Ireland and is not taking orders here yet. This page explains what the review does, so you know what to expect when it opens.
Only if it fits within about 125 pages. Most theses are longer, so upload one chapter or a group of chapters per review.
No. It gives no verdict on passing or on outcomes. It points out weaknesses in the chapter so you can work on them before your supervisor and examiners read it.
Your original file and the extracted text are deleted once your feedback is ready. Your report and the annotated version stay available for 90 days and are then deleted automatically. What you upload is never used to train AI.
Esmond is preparing its launch in Ireland and is not taking orders here yet. Until then you cannot upload or order anything here; the guides on this site are free to read.
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