For thesis defense candidates

Ready your defense.Verify your work.

Thesisroom runs your thesis through a mock viva and audits every citation against the academic record. Every flag points to a source you can verify yourself.

Verified against
  • Crossref
  • OpenAlex
  • Semantic Scholar
  • Retraction Watch
  • DOAJ
Mock viva coach

Questions your committee will actually ask.

Thesisroom reads your full thesis and generates the questions a committee would press you on. Every question links back to a specific passage, so you know where you'll be tested.

Question 12 of 47

Your fourth chapter argues that procedural justice mediates the effect of leader humility on team voice. How do you defend that mediation against the reverse-causality reading the data also supports?

Reverse causality
Citation guard

Catch hallucinated and broken citations before your committee does.

Thesisroom checks every entry in your bibliography against the academic record. Real DOIs, real authors, real journals. Flags show the exact source that disagrees.

[42]

Tyler & Blader (2003). The group engagement model: Procedural justice, social identity, and cooperative behavior.

Verified · 10.1207/S15327957PSPR0704_07

[87]

Owens, Johnson & Mitchell (2013). Expressed humility in organizations: Implications for performance, teams, and leadership.

Flagged · year mismatch · 10.1287/orsc.1120.0795

[119]

Hernandez & Park (2019). Humble leadership in remote contexts: A dyadic process model.

Unverifiable · No DOI returned

Structural critic

The audit your supervisor never has time to give you.

Thesisroom reads each chapter against the standards of your field and marks every passage that needs work. Comments come with a reason and a link to the rule behind them.

Chapter 3 · §3.2

The interviews revealed three recurring orientations toward institutional voice, which I label endorsement, withdrawal, and re-purposing. Each orientation appeared across all four sites, though re-purposing was most visible in the post-merger setting. The next section reads these patterns against the typology proposed by Hirschman.

Revise

The sentence about re-purposing being most visible in the post-merger setting needs site-by-site counts before it can carry argumentative weight.

Must address

Hirschman's typology is named without citation. Earlier paragraphs cite Hirschman 1970; reuse that citation here.

For thesis defense candidates

Who Thesisroom is built for

Master's

If you are sitting a viva or oral examination for your Master's research, Thesisroom prepares you the same way it prepares doctoral candidates. Our models read your thesis, generate the questions an examiner would ask, and verify every citation against the academic record.

Doctoral

Thesisroom was built around the PhD defense. The mock viva module generates examiner-grade questions anchored to specific passages in your thesis. The citation guard catches fabricated and broken references before your committee does. The structural critic audits each chapter against the standards of your field.

Postdoctoral

Postdocs preparing for grant panels, defense repeats, or other high-stakes oral examinations use Thesisroom the same way doctoral candidates do. Upload your manuscript, run the modules, share the verification report with your collaborators.

How it works

Six steps. No prompting. No guesswork.

  1. 01

    Upload

    PDF or DOCX, up to 250 pages.

  2. 02

    Parse

    We extract every chapter, citation, and figure.

  3. 03

    Verify

    Each citation is checked against five academic registries.

  4. 04

    Generate

    Examiner-level questions are written for your work.

  5. 05

    Audit

    Each chapter is read for structural weakness.

  6. 06

    Report

    Receive a verification report you can share with your supervisor.

Thesisroom exists to make doctoral candidates more rigorous, not to help them cut corners. Every question we generate and every citation we flag is anchored to a source you can inspect. We do not produce text intended to evade plagiarism detection. We do not fabricate citations, results, or participant data.

Where Thesisroom stops

What you cannot do with Thesisroom.

Evade detection.

Thesisroom does not rewrite your text to bypass plagiarism or AI detectors. Our models flag signals in your own writing that a detector might catch, then ask you to revise.

Fabricate sources or data.

Thesisroom will not invent citations, manufacture results, or generate participant quotes. The AI is constrained to cite only what already exists in your bibliography.

Ghostwrite your work.

Thesisroom does not produce thesis paragraphs. The audit returns marginal comments and questions. The writing stays yours.