About
Research is a discipline, not a prompt.
PassResearch is an academic workspace for students who have to defend their work. It keeps the source record next to the sentence, so every claim has somewhere to point.
Why we built it
A tool that respects the work
Good research is slow, careful and referenced. Software should make that easier, not paper over it with generated confidence.
- The problem
- Most research tools give you a blank box and a button. They generate confident paragraphs with no sources, and the work collapses the moment a supervisor asks where a claim came from.
- The idea
- Build the opposite: a workspace that starts with real scholarly records, keeps every citation traceable, and writes nothing that it cannot point back to.
- The build
- PassResearch is an independent project operated from Kampala, Uganda. It is being built in the open, one honest capability at a time.
Who it is for
Built around the people doing the work
Four audiences, one workspace — the same rigour at every level of study.
Undergraduate
Final-year projects
A defensible outline, real sources, chapters in order and a Word document you can submit.
Honours & master's
Dissertations
Literature matrices, versioned chapters and supervisor feedback tied to the exact section it concerns.
Doctoral
Long-form research
Instruments, datasets, documented analysis and a long document that still opens quickly.
Supervisors
Feedback that sticks
Corrections imported or pasted, linked to a section and tracked from imported to verified.
What we hold to
Four rules we do not bend
These are design constraints as much as principles — they decide what the product will and will not do.
Evidence before prose
The workspace is built around stored source records, not generated text. A citation resolves to something you saved and can open again.
Never overclaim
A discovered record is never labelled verified, and a connector that is unavailable says so instead of quietly returning nothing.
The document is yours
PassResearch helps you plan, source, draft and check your own work. It does not sit an exam for you, and the integrity rules say so plainly.
Built for real browsers
Phone, tablet or desktop — the same workspace, laid out for the screen you actually have, with photographs and type that hold up.
Status, honestly
What is live, and what is still coming
We publish this list rather than a wall of ticked boxes. If a feature is not finished, it says so here.
Available today
- Structured project setup with topic, programme and citation style.
- Blueprints for problem, purpose, objectives, questions and scope.
- Unified scholarly discovery across four open providers.
- An evidence library with notes, mapping and a literature matrix.
- Sequential chapter writing with autosave and version history.
- A CSL-based citation engine and validated document export.
- Supervisor corrections tracked from imported to verified.
- Dataset upload, inspection and documented analysis runs.
In development
- Team and supervisor collaboration spaces.
- Live institutional library connectors.
- Automated journal-submission formatting packs.
- An independent accessibility audit of the writing workspace.
No registered company name, registration number or office address is published here, because none has been confirmed. When there is one to publish, it will appear on the contact page.
Start where you are
Bring your topic. Leave with a document.
Create a free account and set up your first project in a few minutes — nothing is required before you begin.