To be completely honest: I’m usually the type of person who does everything on my own. I wrote my bachelor’s thesis with a grade of 1.3, all by myself—six months of work. While working on my master’s thesis, I was also working part-time at SAP as a student employee for 25 hours a week; my grandmother passed away in March, and sometime in May I realized: I wouldn’t be able to finish it within the standard timeframe. An extension would have been possible, but it would have voided my student-worker contract.
I found out about AcadText through a fellow student. What bothered me at first: the site looks almost too simple. No chat pop-ups, no “Only 3 spots left” timers, no fake discounts. At first, it seemed unprofessional to me, but in hindsight, that was exactly why I decided to give it a try.
I requested a sample paper for my topic (the topic was something about predictive maintenance and ML models in small and medium-sized businesses). What I received was usable—not brilliant, but usable. More importantly: the four sources cited in the sample were all findable in Scopus; one of them was even a study I’d already come across in my own literature review. That showed me they’re actually searching specialized databases and not just making things up.
I ordered the package with SPSS analysis as an add-on (in my case, it was actually Python/pandas, but they also provided the notebook, neatly annotated). The draft was 71 pages long and arrived after about two and a half hours. I then worked on it for about two weeks—specifically, this meant: completely rewriting the methodology section because I used a different algorithm than the one suggested, supplementing the empirical analysis with my actual dataset, and replacing about 15 sources with papers that were more specific to my case study company.
What I think is fair: AcadText doesn’t promise a finished paper anywhere. The website clearly states that it’s a draft. And that’s exactly what it is. Anyone who thinks they’ll get a master’s thesis ready for submission for €149 doesn’t understand the concept.
The colloquium went well; the examiner really grilled me on the technical aspects of the ML models, but I was able to explain everything because, in the end, the code was truly my own. Final grade: 1.7.
Something else I noticed: The invoice was neatly formatted with VAT clearly listed, which is important for me as a working student who files a tax return. Payment via SEPA—no shady crypto options or international wire transfers like with some providers.
I’m deducting points for two things: First, the formatting in the Word document didn’t exactly match my department’s template—I had to fix that manually (about 3 hours of work). Second, for such an extensive project, I would have liked a brief interim update halfway through; instead, everything came all at once.
Still: exactly the right tool for my situation. No ghostwriting, no scam—an AI draft with proper sources that you have to finish yourself.
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