You can’t uninvent AI. But you can keep student writing authentic.
AI AutoClean identifies machine‑like phrasing and points students to the sections that need adapting, so the human authorship comes from the student - not more AI.
Use AI & Stay Human.
How AI AutoClean supports genuine student authorship
Students now use AI as part of their writing process - to start and to fill gaps. The issue isn’t misconduct. It’s authorship. When AI shapes the language too heavily, the student’s own voice disappears, and institutions lose clarity over who actually wrote the work.
What gets lost when AI shapes the language
AI‑influenced writing can mask gaps in academic literacy and critical thinking. It can also trigger detection tools even when the student wrote the work themselves, creating disputes that damage trust and consume time.
AI AutoClean helps students identify AI‑style patterns in their writing so they can adjust those sections themselves - keeping authorship genuinely human.
The AI Detection / AI Correction Loop
Using AI to rewrite AI‑influenced text doesn’t fix the problem - it restarts it. Each rewrite adds new machine‑like phrasing, new structural patterns and new punctuation habits that still look like AI output.
AI AutoClean breaks the loop by highlighting these patterns directly inside Word, so students can replace them with their own wording - not more AI.
It shows students where to look. They do the writing.
AI AutoClean is a Microsoft Word add‑in. It doesn’t generate, rewrite or suggest content. It highlights AI‑style patterns so students can see exactly where their writing has drifted away from their own voice — and fix it themselves.
AI AutoClean guides students
Flags overlong, complex sentences, repeated phrasing, formulaic openers and vocabulary that appears constantly in AI output but rarely in natural student writing.
Students read the highlights, understand why they’re flagged, and rewrite those sections in their own words. Nothing is rewritten automatically.
One thing it does automatically
AI writing leaves behind specific punctuation habits that almost never appear in natural
human writing but show up constantly in AI output. AI AutoClean highlights and cleans these
punctuation patterns instantly. Across an institution, thousands of hours are wasted
changing punctuation that can now be fixed with one click.
AI AutoClean runs entirely inside Microsoft Word under the microsoft.com domain. No student work is sent to any external AI model or third‑party server. It is 100% GDPR compliant and introduces no new security surface beyond your existing Microsoft 365 environment.
Confidence that the work in front of you is genuinely theirs
Institutions need confidence that submitted work reflects the student's own thinking. AI AutoClean helps students keep their writing recognisably theirs by showing them where AI influence is most visible — without rewriting anything for them.
Fewer disputes, more trust
AI-style phrasing can trigger detection tools even when a student wrote every word themselves - turning an honest piece of work into an investigation, an appeal, and weeks of uncertainty for everyone involved.
A fairer process for everyone
When students can see what's flagging as AI before they submit, staff spend less time investigating and more time teaching. Trust holds on both sides.
The phrases that give AI writing away
The Education Pack helps students recognise the kinds of phrasing that often appear in AI‑generated academic writing - so they can avoid it and keep their work recognisably theirs.
Academic AI‑style phrasing
The pack includes common AI‑generated essay openings, reflective‑writing clichés, overly formal transitions and structural patterns typical of AI in academic contexts.
Highlighting these helps students avoid phrasing that makes work appear AI‑influenced even when the thinking is entirely theirs.
Phrase highlighting for review
AI AutoClean highlights each AI‑style pattern individually, giving students and reviewers a clear picture of where AI influence is most visible - without relying on unreliable detection scores.
Students decide what to change. Nothing is rewritten automatically. The writing stays under the author's control throughout.
Simple, Transparent Pricing
All prices are for 1 year. Optional renewal at 25% of purchase price.
Site Licence
Unlimited PCs - One Site
25% optional annual renewal
- AI AutoClean add-in
- Unlimited PCs at one site
- Institution-owned devices only
- 1 year license including upgrades
- Priority support
- No automatic renewal
Enterprise Licence
Unlimited PCs - Unlimited Sites
25% optional annual renewal
- AI AutoClean add-in
- Unlimited PCs, unlimited sites
- Institution-owned devices only
- 1 year license including upgrades
- Priority enterprise support
- No automatic renewal
Campus Licence
Enterprise + Student Devices
25% optional annual renewal
- AI AutoClean add-in
- Unlimited PCs, unlimited sites
- Includes student PCs & laptops
- 1 year license including upgrades
- Priority enterprise support
- No automatic renewal
International rates reflect transaction and compliance costs, not exchange rates.
Still weighing it up?
We ran the same text through an AI detector three times. It gave three different scores.
Identical, unedited text scored 78%, 68%, then 80% AI on the same detector. Here's what that means for institutions relying on detection tools to make decisions about student and staff work.
Are AI detectors accurate? →Try AI AutoClean for Yourself
Install the add‑in directly inside Microsoft Word - it takes less than 30 seconds.
Install from Microsoft AppSource
AI AutoClean is available directly through Microsoft AppSource and can be added to Word instantly.
How to Install
- Open Microsoft Word and select the Add‑ins icon from the ribbon.
- Select + More apps and search for AI AutoClean.
- Click Add to install the add‑in - it takes less than 30 seconds.