The mechanism

Scan. Verify. Done.

Scan this QR Code written by student Brandon Smith.

This was for a demo school assignment, "Do we live in a simulation?" Have a look at the insights and details the certificate gives regarding how the piece was actually written.

Students who use Quilva can choose to have a QR code generated and appended automatically to the end of all their written work.

Finished work carries a Human Authorship Certificate with its own QR code. Printed, emailed or on screen — point a phone at it and see how that work was produced.

Works the same on printed and digital submissions
No uploading, no third-party checker, no percentage score
Seconds per piece, inside the normal marking routine
Nothing to investigate unless there's a reason to look

Scan this QR code to view a sample Quilva Human Authorship Certificate

Try scanning it — this is a real sample certificate.

Why detection fails

The AI problem is already in your marking pile.

Generative AI writes polished academic work in seconds, and the finished document no longer tells your staff who produced it.

Detectors can only guess. They read the result and return a probability — one that can be wrong about a strong student, and one that AI can be prompted to slip past. Every new detector teaches the next model how to evade it. That race has no finish line.

Most also require student work to be uploaded to a third-party service, turning an integrity question into a data-protection one.

Quilva records the writing as it happens, on your own machines:

Typing Deletions Revisions Pauses Active writing time Copy / paste

A Quilva writing-process record showing how a piece of work developed over time

Quilva outperforms all online AI detectors that guess if writing was AI, using a fundamentally different approach.

Typical AI detection	Quilva
Result Looks only at the finished piece of work.	Process Captures the journey — planning, notes, drafting, editing and the finished work.
Guesswork Estimates whether AI may have been used. Sometimes it is wrong.	Evidence Records what actually happened in the document as it was written.
Online Work may need uploading to an external service, creating privacy and data-security concerns.	Offline Verification happens locally. Student work stays on your systems.
General purpose Built to flag AI-generated content across any context.	Built for UK institutions Designed around authorship, assessment integrity, privacy and school guidance.

UK guidance

Built for UK guidance.

JCQ requires centres to ensure that work submitted for assessment is the student's own. The DfE expects evidence, responsible use of technology, and protection of personal data.

We've gone through both in detail and built Quilva around what they actually ask for: everything happens locally, student work is never stored on Quilva's servers, and there is no generative AI, chatbot or writing assistant anywhere in the application — it's a digital typewriter with an evidence engine underneath it.

JCQ and Department for Education guidance logos

Built around JCQ and DfE guidance.

Fairness

Let students write well.

Quilva changes the incentive. Students can focus on producing their best work — stronger vocabulary, clearer arguments, better grammar, a more sophisticated style — without worrying that good writing might somehow make them look "AI-generated."

No student should ever have to make their writing worse just to avoid tripping an imperfect detector. When the process itself is the evidence, a well-turned sentence is simply a well-turned sentence.

Students don't have to use any of it, but Quilva also gives them the planning and drafting tools professional authors and screenwriters rely on — outlining, mind mapping, index cards and research notes — to develop and organise ideas before turning them into a finished piece.

Explore the full Quilva toolkit → Research on AI detector fairness →

Quilva's Writer and Compass planning tools — outlining, mind mapping and index cards

Writer & Compass — planning tools built in.

Quilva Education

Stop guessing. Start proving it.

One subscription covers the whole school — every student, every device, every assessment they write. No per-seat maths, no procurement back-and-forth, and nobody left to figure it out alone: we'll guide your team through setup from day one.

Everything in Quilva PRO — planning, drafting and design tools included
Covers all school owned and student owned devices
Unlimited assessments and documents — no caps, no add-ons
Designed to make writing and school projects engaging and creative
Many different planning and organisation tools for large projects
Runs fully offline and local — your data is not accessible by Quilva or subject to online data breaches or student privacy risks
Easy install with guided setup, plus updates & support all year

£795 flat fee, per year, per school

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Getting started is really easy. We'll walk your team through installation, setup, and usage.

Get in touch

If you're a school, let's start a conversation.

Tell us how your institution handles assessment integrity today, and we'll tell you honestly whether Quilva helps.

No demo software to install first, and no sales visit. A short email or phone call is usually enough to work out whether this fits how you already work.

Happy to talk through pricing for departments, year groups or a whole institution.

"Record the work. Don't guess from the text."