DeskReady vs Google's Paper Assistant Tool (PAT)
PAT is a free, experimental check offered through some computer-science conferences.
What Google's Paper Assistant Tool (PAT) does
PAT is an experimental tool from Google, powered by Gemini, that gives authors feedback on computer-science papers: experimental and methodological rigour, clarity, and technical correctness, with a focus on mathematical and logical errors. It does not score or rank papers.
It is offered through conference programs (ICML and NeurIPS in 2026, and ICLR 2027 submitters from 11 to 18 September 2026), free, one run per paper. Feedback is private to the authors and kept out of the review process; per ICLR, submissions are not used for training and are deleted within 7 days.
What DeskReady does
DeskReady checks whether a manuscript agrees with itself before you submit it. It works through every paragraph, table, figure and reference of the final PDF: numbers in the text are compared with the tables they describe and recomputed, claims with the results that should support them, figures with their captions and the text, and every reference is looked up in Crossref, PubMed, arXiv, DBLP, NASA ADS, INSPIRE-HEP, OpenAlex and DataCite, and checked for retraction notices. Each finding is quoted and highlighted on your own page; a finding that can't be located there is dropped. Re-checks of a revised PDF show which findings you resolved. Any field, any venue; manuscripts are processed only in the EU and never used to train models. First check free, then from €5.90 per paper.
Side by side
| What you get | Google's Paper Assistant Tool (PAT) | DeskReady |
|---|---|---|
| Mathematical and logical errors in proofs and derivations | Yes, its focus | Not a proof checker |
| Numbers in the text vs the tables, recomputed | Not its focus | Yes |
| Figures vs captions, text and equations | Not stated | Yes |
| References looked up in databases | Not stated | Yes, eight databases |
| Fields | Computer science | Any field |
| Availability | Through participating conferences, set windows, one run | Any time, any venue, re-checks of revisions |
| Price | Free | First check free, then from €5.90 per paper |
Facts about Google's Paper Assistant Tool (PAT) from these public pages, checked 16 October 2026: ICLR: PAT for ICLR submitters; Google: Towards Automating Scientific Review with PAT. Tell us at support@deskready.eu if anything has changed.
When Google's Paper Assistant Tool (PAT) is the better choice
- Deep checking of mathematical and logical arguments in computer-science papers.
- Free, if your conference offers it.
When DeskReady is the better choice
- Any field and any venue, whenever you need it, including re-checks of revised versions.
- Consistency of numbers, tables, figures, claims and references in the final PDF.
Using both
If your conference offers PAT, use it for the technical argument; use DeskReady for the last read of the PDF you submit, and for journals and venues without PAT.
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