Detect AI-fabricated citations before they reach your markers. Surface retracted sources before they're cited. Measure cohort-level information literacy improvement — without collecting a single student identifier.
Large language models hallucinate references constantly — fake DOIs, fake author names, fake journal titles attached to papers that don't exist. Students don't always know. Markers can't always check. Submission deadlines don't wait.
~70%
of UK undergraduates report using generative AI in their studies
HEPI Student Generative AI Survey, 2025
~50%
of citations generated by leading AI systems have been shown to be fabricated or incorrect in academic-context studies
Bhattacharyya et al., Cureus (2023)
£0
spent by most UK universities on tooling that specifically detects citation fabrication
Solas market analysis, 2026
The Solas Audit Portal is publicly accessible — any student can drop in their essay and verify every citation in 90 seconds. They use it before they submit. You catch the fabricators by giving the AIO the institutional analytics layer over the audits your cohort is already running.
The same tool every student in your humanities cohort has access to. Reads any PDF or Word document, finds every in-text citation, checks each one against CrossRef, OpenAlex, Google Books and Unpaywall, applies an AI second-opinion on URL failures, and produces a downloadable evidence pack. Use it on a flagged essay before opening a misconduct case.
Once the Marker Audit Portal has proved its worth, the institution-wide licence gives every student the Chrome extension and gives the Academic Integrity Office a full cohort-level dashboard — without collecting any student identifiers.
Every citation generated through Solas is cross-checked against CrossRef, OpenAlex, Google Books, and Unpaywall. When a registry returns nothing, the citation is flagged as potentially fabricated — before it reaches a marker's screen.
Continuous cross-reference against Retraction Watch's full database. Citations of retracted papers trigger an alert in the student's library AND in the institutional dashboard — so academic misconduct cases can be opened before submission, not after publication.
Unverifiable-citation rates, broken down by module and tracked week-by-week through term. Identify where students are struggling and where your teaching is working — quantitatively, not anecdotally.
Solas implements the Harvard style your style guides describe. Multi-style support (APA, MLA, Chicago, Vancouver, IEEE) on the institutional roadmap for departments outside the humanities and social sciences.
Academic integrity tooling can become surveillance infrastructure very quickly if you're not careful. Solas was designed from day one so that surveillance is structurally impossible, not just policy-prohibited.
The data your institution sees is genuinely aggregate. No student names. No student IDs. No browser fingerprints. No IP addresses. No essay content. Ever.
No software to install. No infrastructure to maintain. Students keep using the same Solas they already have.
Per-student annual licence keyed to your institution's domain. Standard university procurement, GDPR DPA, security questionnaire — all available pre-signature.
Your IT department circulates a short institutional code via email or VLE. Students paste it into Solas Settings; their installs upgrade to the institutional build, opt-in to anonymous module-level reporting.
Within the first week, your Academic Integrity Office sees verifiable citation activity, module-level flag rates, and the first retracted sources caught before submission.
Per-student annual. The same price every university pays. No tier games, no enterprise mark-up.
£6 /student /year
billed annually, capped at your enrolled headcount
For comparison: Turnitin licences typically cost UK universities £5–£8 per student per year. Solas detects what Turnitin can't — fabricated citations, retracted sources, and AI-hallucinated DOIs.
15-minute demo. We'll show the dashboard on synthetic but realistic institutional data, walk through the privacy architecture, and answer whatever your Information Governance team wants to ask.
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