The team behind Textlume
Four editors write and check what you read on Textlume, each in an area of their own, and every guide carries the name of the person who answers for it.
Carmen Echeverría
Academic writing editor
Linguist and former writing centre tutor in Spain and Germany
Carmen signs off the guides on university writing: theses, seminar papers, and how to cite or paraphrase a source. When a guide compares how a Spanish TFG and a German Hausarbeit are built, it is hers.
- Thesis and seminar paper structure
- Academic summaries and abstracts
- Citing and paraphrasing sources
- Academic writing in Spanish and German
Jakob Wendt
Machine learning engineer
Computer science, text classification and model evaluation
Jakob signs off the pieces on how AI detection and the rewriting tools work. He also checks every technical sentence on the tool pages against the code and the figures on the accuracy page before a page changes.
- AI text detection
- Model evaluation and error rates
- Language models for rewriting
- Text classification
Ece Karaman
Education lead
Former high school teacher of Turkish language and literature
Ece signs off the guides for students and teachers in Turkey. They run from a first homework essay to the similarity report of a thesis.
- Homework and essay writing
- Thesis similarity reports
- Teaching writing at school
- Turkish academic writing
Malcolm Thorne
Workplace writing editor
Former recruiter and in-house editor
Malcolm signs off the guides on writing for work, from cover letters to the follow-up email after an interview. His tips come with a before and after example.
- Cover letters and job applications
- Professional emails
- Reports for managers and clients
- Editing for clarity
From a reader's question to a checked guide
A draft is not a source
Every guide starts from a question readers really ask. A language model writes the first draft, and nothing in it counts as true until an editor has checked it against a source. A fact that no source confirms comes out.
The figures carry no personal byline
The figures about the AI detector come from our own tests on writing it never saw in training, always with their sample size and test date. Textlume, a software company based in the UAE, answers for the accuracy page and the page on how we test as a whole. A guide quotes those figures exactly and never rounds them up into a stronger claim.
What the team does not do
No company pays to appear in our guides, and another product is named only when it fits the question. No guide promises that a text will pass an AI detector or explains how to get around a school's or an employer's rules on AI. Whether AI help is allowed on an assignment is decided by the person who set it.
How to reach us
Every guide shows the date of its last revision. If you find a wrong fact, write to support@textlume.com or through the contact page, and Dave from our support team replies within 24 hours. Once the error is confirmed, the guide is corrected and its date changes to the day of the fix.
For more about the company and the tools, see about Textlume, and for the guides themselves, the blog.
Read the full process in our editorial policy