Getting started
From signup to submitted essay in five steps.
EssayMate is a chat-first workspace. You describe the assignment, upload the materials, and the system drafts, refines, and helps you polish — all without leaving the conversation.
What you'll need
Three things to have ready.
An EssayMate account
Sign up free at essaymate.io/signup. The first three days are on us — full access, no card required to start.
Your assignment details
The prompt or rubric, the word count, the citation style (APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, IEEE), and the deadline.
Optional: 3–5 of your own essays
Upload them under Writing Style to build a profile that makes future drafts sound like you, not like a generic chatbot.
The flow
Step by step from prompt to draft.
Open Essay Chat
From the left sidebar in your customer dashboard, click Essay Chat. This is the workspace where you'll draft, revise, and run post-processing — all in one session.
Describe the assignment
In the composer, tell EssayMate what you need. Include the topic, word count, citation style, deadline, and any structural requirements (e.g. 'must include a counterargument section', 'lab report following IEEE format').
Attach your sources and class materials
Upload PDFs of the rubric, professor handouts, and any required readings. EssayMate reads them, cites from them, and verifies that quotations actually appear in them.
Send the message
Hit send. EssayMate plans, drafts, and prepares the artifact while you watch the live progress events — what it's reading, drafting, and verifying along the way.
Review and refine in chat
Open the draft in the preview pane. To revise, just keep talking: 'tighten the second paragraph', 'expand the discussion section', 'switch to APA 7'. The session remembers everything from the prompt forward.
Polish before you submit
Four finishing actions.
Once you have a draft you're happy with, run any of these from inside the workspace.
Inline AI
Open the draft in the editor, select any sentence or paragraph, and ask the AI to rewrite, condense, or expand. The change applies in place — you stay in the document.
Humanizer
Run the humanizer from the actions menu when you want a more natural version of the draft while keeping the same meaning intact.
Source review
Use the preview, downloads, and source-backed draft to confirm the citations and references you want to submit before you finalize the paper.
Human review
Request a professional reviewer with your deadline and any extra notes. Track progress under Submissions. When the review is back, download the polished DOCX or request revisions.
Tips that pay off
Small things that make big differences.
Build your Writing Style profile early
Even three short essays make a noticeable difference. Drafts go from generic AI prose to your voice — sentence rhythm, vocabulary range, structural habits.
Convert web sources to PDF, avoid scans
Use your browser's Print → Save as PDF for web sources. Scanned PDFs are harder for the system to extract text from, so prefer text-based PDFs. For open-access papers, Semantic Scholar's 'Has PDF' filter is a good starting point.
Be specific about format, structure, and tone
Spell out the structure you need, the tone (formal / reflective / analytical), and any special grading or citation requirements. Vague prompts produce vague drafts.
Use Generated Essays to revisit past drafts
Every draft is saved. Open Generated Essays in the sidebar to re-download, re-run actions on, or branch from earlier work.
Use Submissions to track human reviews
Once you've requested a review, the Submissions area shows status, lets you message the reviewer, and gives you the polished DOCX when complete.
Ready to start