# AI invents sources. Your examiners have to find them.

> Students now generate work with AI – complete with fabricated, misattributed, or overstated citations. Acurio checks the citation fidelity of whole batches of theses: does every claim actually match the source it cites? Automatically, traceably, in minutes instead of days.

EU hosting (Germany) · GDPR-compliant · Your data is never used for training

## The risk

**Plagiarism checking is solved. Fabricated evidence isn’t.**

Plagiarism tools find copied text. They do not find whether a source even exists, whether it actually supports the claim, or whether it was attributed correctly. Acurio asks a different question.

**Plagiarism software asks**

- Was this text copied from somewhere?
- Finds text similarity.
- Compares against the web.

**Acurio asks**

- Does the cited source really say what's claimed here?
- Finds fabricated, misattributed, and overstated citations.
- Compares each claim against the uploaded source.

Acurio doesn't replace your plagiarism check — it closes the gap that one leaves open.

Checking the citation fidelity of a single thesis by hand easily costs several hours. At 30, 100, or 400 theses a semester it isn't feasible — which is precisely why it doesn't get done.

|  | Checking effort per thesis |
| --- | --- |
| By hand | several hours |
| With Acurio | minutes |

## How it works

From batch to report — in four steps

1. **Upload** Drop in theses (.docx / .tex) and their sources (PDF / RIS / BibTeX), in batches.
2. **Match** Acurio extracts every citation and the claim behind it, then locates the relevant passage in the source.
3. **Judge** Each claim gets a traceable verdict: supported, partial, unsupported — with the exact passage.
4. **Report** One clear report per thesis, flagged passages first. Examiners read minutes instead of hours.

No workflow overhaul. No training. If you can upload a file, you can run Acurio.

## For lecturers

The sources? Acurio fetches them — through your library.

The full check needs the original sources. But nobody has to hunt them down: lecturers pick their university once, one click per thesis — and Acurio pulls the licensed full texts through swisscovery, the library your institution already pays for.

- **Pick the university once.** Over 30 Swiss institutions are built in — from ETH and the University of Bern to BFH and the universities of teacher education.
- **One click, no legwork.** No login marathon through publisher portals, no collecting PDFs by hand.
- **Existing licenses.** Acurio uses the library access you already have. Nothing new to buy.

Adoption lives or dies by the effort it puts on lecturers. Acurio takes that off them — and whatever the library doesn't cover, it flags plainly.

## Fewer hours. More certainty.

For examiners & supervisors · the users

- **Flagged first.** The report surfaces the few problematic citations — you don't re-read the whole thesis.
- **Evidence, not gut feel.** Every verdict carries the exact source passage. Defensible to students and examination boards.
- **“Not checked” ≠ “wrong”.** Where a source is missing, Acurio says so clearly — instead of falsely marking a claim unsupported.
- **Fix in view.** Flagged passages can be reviewed in place and the thesis marked as checked.

## One standard across the whole unit.

For the integrity office / dean · the buyers

- **Consistency.** Every thesis is checked to the same standard, regardless of who supervised it.
- **Seats & departments.** Licenses per chair, institute, or faculty; centrally managed.
- **Scales with the semester.** Batches from dozens to hundreds of theses during submission waves — without extra headcount.
- **Privacy that holds up.** EU hosting (Germany), GDPR-compliant, your content is never used for model training.

## What your institution gets

- **Integrity protected** Fabricated and misattributed citations surface before a grade is awarded.
- **Hours recovered** What took hours per thesis takes minutes.
- **Defensible decisions** Every verdict backed by a concrete source passage — robust on appeal.
- **Uniform standard** The same bar across every supervisor.

## Proof

Four failure types no plagiarism tool sees

| Failure mode | Description |
| --- | --- |
| Fabricated source | Doesn't exist. Acurio finds no match. |
| Misattribution | Source exists but says something else. |
| Overstatement | Source supports a weaker claim than asserted. |
| Retracted | Source has been retracted / corrected. |

## Privacy & security

Your theses stay yours.

Acurio is built as a lab instrument, not a data vacuum. Content never leaves the European legal area and never flows into model training.

- **EU data residency (Germany)** Hosted in the EU, GDPR-compliant.
- **No training** Uploaded theses and sources are never used to train models.
- **Controlled access** Content is bound to your institution account.

## Pricing / pilot

Start with a pilot.

Run Acurio against a real submission batch from your department — with actual theses and sources — before you commit.

- Batch-process whole submission waves
- .docx / .tex · PDF / RIS / BibTeX
- One report per thesis, flagged passages first
- EU hosting, no training use

Department · Faculty · Institution-wide
Licenses & pricing on request

[Request a pilot](mailto:info@tecminds.ch?subject=Pilot%20request&body=Institution%3A%0AContact%3A%0AEstimated%20submission%20batch%20(number%20of%20theses)%3A)

## Frequently asked questions

### Does Acurio replace our plagiarism check?

No. It answers a different question – citation fidelity – and complements your existing plagiarism solution.

### Which file formats?

Theses as .docx or .tex; sources as PDF, RIS, or BibTeX (e.g. a Zotero export).

### Do we need the original sources?

For the full citation-fidelity check, yes – Acurio compares against the uploaded sources. Without a source, a passage is clearly marked “not checked,” never falsely flagged as unsupported.

### Where does our data live?

EU (Germany), GDPR-compliant. Never used for model training.

### How many theses at once?

Batch processing, built for whole-department submission waves.

### How accurate is it?

Acurio gives a traceable verdict with a source passage per claim. It doesn't replace the examiner's academic judgment – it leads them to the passages that need one.

**Check a whole batch before you check it by hand.**

Book a pilot with a real submission batch from your department.

Contact: [info@tecminds.ch](mailto:info@tecminds.ch) · EU hosting · Germany

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Source: https://acurio.ch/en/for-institutions