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Create
Students create academic work inside a purpose-built writing environment.
Academic provenance — currently in development
Trust the process.
Understand the work.
Purpose Publish is developing a new approach to academic integrity—one centered on evidence about how work develops rather than algorithms attempting to guess authorship from the finished document.
Designed for higher education • Privacy-conscious • Human-reviewed
9:12 AM
Document created
10:04 AM
Draft checkpoint
10:48 AM
Major revision
11:26 AM
Source disclosure updated
12:14 PM
Final revision
12:20 PM
Submission recorded
Illustrative example of planned functionality. No authorship score, probability, or risk rating is produced.
Why provenance
Academic integrity shouldn't depend on a guess.
Generative AI has made authorship questions increasingly complicated.
Many existing approaches analyze a finished document and attempt to infer how it was created. Purpose Publish is exploring another approach: preserve useful evidence during the creation process.
Detection
- Final document
- Algorithmic analysis
- Probability
- Interpretation
Provenance
- Writing process
- Recorded milestones
- Available evidence
- Human review
Inference asks what probably happened.
Provenance records what the system actually observed.
How it will work
From draft to review, with evidence preserved along the way.
The platform is currently in development. The flow below describes planned functionality.
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Record
Meaningful milestones in the document's development can become provenance events.
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Submit
The finished work can be associated with its recorded evidence and a verification receipt.
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Review
Authorized educators can review the available evidence and relevant student-provided context.
Purpose Publish provides evidence. Institutions retain judgment.
Student-first principles
Academic integrity should also protect students.
No invisible AI score
Purpose Publish is not being designed to assign AI-authorship percentages to students.
No typing biometrics
The product should not identify students using typing rhythms or behavioral biometrics.
Context matters
Offline work, accessibility tools, external notes, and legitimate transfers can create gaps that deserve context rather than automatic accusations.
Transparent evidence
The long-term product should allow students to understand the evidence associated with their work.
Missing provenance
A gap is a question—not a verdict.
Real academic workflows aren't perfect. Students may:
- lose connectivity
- draft offline
- switch devices
- use accessibility tools
- work from notes
- use institution-approved external tools
- Evidence gap
- Technical context
- Student explanation
- Human review
The platform is intended to preserve context rather than automatically treating missing evidence as misconduct. Determinations remain with the institution through human review.
For institutions
Designed around the realities of higher education.
Academic Integrity
More context for human-led review.
Faculty
A clearer view of how submitted work developed.
Students
A mechanism for presenting process evidence and relevant context.
IT
A standalone-first architecture intended to avoid making LMS integration a prerequisite for pilots.
Privacy Teams
Data-minimization and controlled-access principles.
Accessibility Teams
Accessibility treated as a core product requirement rather than a later feature.
Integration philosophy
Start independently. Integrate when ready.
The planned platform should not require months of university IT integration before a pilot can begin.
- Standalone
- Course invitations
- Roster import
- Read-only synchronization
- Institutional SSO
- LTI
- Enterprise integration
Planned interoperability directions
The technologies below describe planned interoperability directions under consideration. They do not represent existing partnerships, completed integrations, or endorsements.
- Canvas
- Blackboard
- Moodle
- D2L Brightspace
- SAML
- OIDC
- SCIM
- LTI 1.3
- Institutional SIS platforms
Privacy philosophy
Provenance without surveillance.
These are the intended principles guiding development. They describe design goals for a product still being built.
- Collect only necessary evidence
- Minimize student data
- Separate institutional tenants
- Limit privileged access
- Preserve auditability
- Avoid behavioral biometrics
- Avoid automated misconduct decisions
- Give institutions appropriate retention controls
More evidence should not mean more surveillance.
Security
Trust requires more than a tagline.
The planned architecture is being designed around the following goals.
- Tenant isolation
- Least privilege
- Secure authentication
- Encrypted transport
- Audited privileged access
- Tamper-evident provenance records
- Controlled institutional permissions
- Resilient backups and recovery
These are architectural design goals, not claims of completed audits or certifications. Purpose Publish does not hold any security certification today and makes no guarantee of absolute security.
Accessibility
Accessibility from the beginning.
The product roadmap targets WCAG 2.1 AA as the minimum accessibility baseline, with WCAG 2.2 AA improvements incorporated where practical. No formal certification is claimed.
- Keyboard navigation
- Screen-reader compatibility
- Visible focus
- Reduced motion
- Accessible editor controls
- Semantic interfaces
Development status
Currently in development.
A view of where the work stands today. We don't publish release dates we can't commit to.
- Research & ArchitectureActive
- Product PrototypeIn Development
- Institutional DiscoveryOpening
- Early Pilot ProgramPlanned
- Enterprise IntegrationsFuture Phase
Early pilot program
Help shape the future of academic provenance.
Purpose Publish is preparing for early conversations and future pilots with higher-education institutions, faculty, academic-integrity professionals, accessibility teams, and technology leaders.
FAQ
Questions we're asked most.
Better evidence.
Fairer academic review.
We're building Purpose Publish for institutions that want a more transparent approach to academic provenance.