The AI cannot author the essay
Essay tools are built for guidance, not output. They do not produce a draft, paragraph, opening, or replacement line for a student to submit.
Integrity
A coach, never a crutch
GradLaunch uses AI to challenge thinking, surface what matters, and help students revise in their own voice. It does not write application essays for them.
See the boundary in action
Choose a coaching moment
The coach can make the next step clearer. The thinking and the writing stay with the student.
Find a topic
Start with what is real
The coach
Asks about the student’s experiences, activities, and details they have already shared.
The student
Chooses which experience matters and what they want an admissions reader to understand.
Nothing personal is invented
Coaching starts with the student’s draft and the experiences they share. When context is missing, it asks for it instead of filling in a story.
Edits stay under student control
Workshop feedback identifies the sentence to revisit and explains why. It never inserts text into the draft or applies a revision for the student.
In the product
How integrity shows up in GradLaunch
Concrete behaviors in the software — not a mission statement.
Questions come before answers
The interview asks one question at a time and keeps phrases the student said. Those words become material they can write from.
Feedback stays tied to the draft
Review notes quote a sentence the student wrote, explain the issue, and ask what to fix. There are no replacement sentences to paste.
Ideas start with real experiences
Brainstorming uses the student’s own activities and details. When information is missing, the coach asks a question instead of inventing an answer.
Every revision remains theirs
Workshop tools point to structure, mechanics, and sentences that need attention. There is no apply button because the student makes every change.
In the company
How we operate under this word
Policies and product boundaries you can verify in how we ship.
Ghostwriting is blocked by design
Essay coaching is instructed never to generate an essay, paragraph, opening line, or replacement sentence, even when a student asks for one.
The same boundary applies everywhere
Review, brainstorming, interview, and workshop features all direct the student back to their own experiences, words, and decisions.
Voice matters more than polish
The coach checks whether a draft sounds personal and specific. It helps students strengthen their voice instead of replacing it with a generic one.
The student owns the final work
AI can help a student reflect, organize, and revise. The student chooses the ideas, writes the sentences, and submits the application.
The other values
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