Academic integrity
How Spontae works with your school's AI policy.
Spontae is designed to comply with law school academic integrity policies. It works like Quimbee or CALI: a study and practice tool, not a writing tool that does your work for you.
The core principle: feedback, not answers.
Every AI feature in Spontae is built around one rule: you do the work first, then AI gives you feedback. No tool will generate an assignment, exam answer, or submittable document for you. The AI reads what you wrote and tells you how to improve it, the same role a writing center tutor or teaching assistant plays.
This is the same model used by Quimbee (reads case summaries to study from), CALI (interactive exercises where you practice), and Westlaw's research tools (helps you find the law, doesn't tell you how to argue it). Spontae occupies the same educational space.
Common questions.
- Is using this cheating?
- No — Spontae is a study and practice layer, the same category as Quimbee, CALI, or a writing center tutor. You read the cases, write the briefs, take the exams. The tool reacts to what you produce: it tells you where your reasoning is thin, flags a rule that looks off, and asks you questions you haven’t answered yet. The analysis stays yours.
- Can I use this for a graded assignment?
- The writing feedback tools require your own draft as input and return margin-note observations — they don’t produce replacement prose. Nothing here generates a brief, argument, or exam answer for submission. Check your professor’s specific AI policy; if they want disclosure, disclose. When in doubt, ask before you use it.
- What does “feedback, not answers” mean in practice?
- Every AI feature requires you to produce something first — a written answer, a drafted brief section, an attempted hypo. The tool then responds to what you wrote: it points at gaps, raises questions, flags divergences from your notes. It never opens a blank page and fills it for you. See the tool-by-tool breakdown below for how this works in each feature.
Built-in guardrails.
Every AI helper requires your own text as input. The tool critiques and organizes your work; it does not write for you.
AI outputs may be inaccurate. Legal rules, citations, and holdings must be verified against your casebook, class notes, and official sources before relying on them.
Spontae will not generate submittable assignments, exam answers, or legal documents.
Your course's specific AI policy always overrides any general guidance here. When in doubt, ask your professor.
Nothing produced by this tool constitutes legal advice.
Tool-by-tool breakdown.
How each tool is designed to stay within academic integrity boundaries:
Case Brief Builder
AI structures the opinion so it's navigable — the stated facts, posture, and the court's own holding. You read the case and synthesize the rule, reasoning, and exam relevance yourself; those fields start empty.
IRAC Practice Gym
You write the answer. AI grades your structure and flags missing rule elements, like a teaching assistant, not a ghostwriter.
Outline Builder
You select which rules to include. AI helps organize structure; you decide what goes in.
Rule Flashcards
Generated from your own uploaded notes and case briefs. Your material, drilled back at you.
Socratic Simulator
Generates cold-call questions from your brief. You practice answering. AI critiques your answer.
Legal Writing Studio
You draft first. AI gives structural and citation feedback on what you wrote.
What you are still responsible for.
Reading every assigned case yourself before briefing it.
Verifying every rule, citation, and holding against your casebook and official sources.
Knowing and following your specific school's and professor's AI policy.
Never submitting AI-generated text as your own work in any academic submission.
Disclosing AI tool use whenever your professor or your school's honor code requires it.
AI accuracy disclaimer.
Spontae uses AI to generate study feedback, practice questions, and organizational suggestions. AI can be wrong. Rule statements, case holdings, and citations produced by AI must be verified against your casebook, official case reporters (Westlaw, Lexis, or Bloomberg), and your professor's notes before you rely on them. Never cite a source you found through this tool without independently confirming it.
Questions?
If your professor or honor board has questions about how this tool works, we're happy to explain. Reach out at hello@spontae.com.