How Mento uses AI

Mento is an independent product

Mento is built and operated independently. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, DeepSeek and Perplexity, or any other provider of artificial-intelligence models. Any model or company names that appear on this site are used only to describe or compare technology, and are the trademarks of their respective owners.

What the AI actually does here

Mento sends your inputs — a topic you choose, or the study material you upload — to third-party AI models, and uses their output to produce:

• practice problems, quizzes and flashcards
• mock exam questions, and the explanations shown after you answer
• grading of short written answers
• replies in the AI tutor chat about your uploaded notes
• research suggestions and citations for paper writing

Mento does not train its own models. The reasoning is performed by the third-party providers named above; Mento supplies the prompts, the study context and the surrounding product.

Paper writing: what Mento will and will not write for you

Mento’s paper writer treats different assignments differently, because for some of them the writing is the thing being assessed.

For a Research Paper, Literature Review, Case Study, Lab / Scientific Report (IMRaD) or Research Proposal, Mento can draft a section as a starting point. It writes from material outside you — your sources, your case material, your own data — and the draft lands in an editor for you to rewrite.

For an Essay or a Reflection Paper, it will not. There, Mento coaches: it asks questions, suggests structure and critiques what you have written, but it does not produce the paragraphs. The argument and the voice have to be yours, and asking it to write them will get a refusal rather than a draft.

Mento never invents the things it cannot know: it will not make up results, measurements or data for a lab report, and it will not make up a first-person experience for a reflection. Where a number or an experience is missing, it says so instead of filling the gap.

When you attach an assignment or rubric, Mento uses it to identify what the task asks for. It does not grade your work, predict your mark, or tell you that you have met a criterion — that judgement is yours and your marker’s.

None of this makes AI-drafted text safe to hand in. You must not submit output generated by Mento as your own work for academic credit — most institutions treat that as misconduct, and it is prohibited by our Terms. Check your own institution’s rules before submitting anything Mento helped you write.

AI output can be wrong — please treat it that way

Generated questions, answers, explanations and grades may contain factual errors, may mark a correct answer as wrong, and may reflect a syllabus different from your own. Mento is a study aid, not an authoritative source and not a substitute for your textbook, your teacher, or professional advice.

If a generated answer conflicts with your course material, trust your course material.

Your content and your own API key

Study material you upload is sent to AI providers so their models can answer questions about it. If you supply your own OpenAI API key in settings, Mento uses that key for your generations instead of its own; it is stored so that it can be used on your behalf and is never displayed back to you or shared with other users.

We only advertise what exists

Features described on this site are features Mento actually provides today. Where something is planned rather than available, it is labelled as such. If you find a claim on this site that the product does not deliver, please tell us and we will correct it.