How MAAS decides who
works on your brief
Most academic support sites describe outcomes. This page describes method: who MAAS is as a registered company, the standard an expert has to meet before being matched to your work, and the questions you will be asked before a dissertation project starts.
How do you know MAAS is a real academic partner?
MAAS Education Technology JSC is a registered Vietnamese company operating from Ho Chi Minh City since 2015, working on a coaching model in which you remain the author of everything you submit.
- Registered entity
- MAAS Education Technology JSC
- Business registration
- 0316187114
- Office
- Floor 7, 60 Nguyen Van Thu Street, Tan Dinh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
- Operating since
- 2015
- Contact
- support@maasedtech.com · +84 979 422 393
- Your brief is read in full before anything is quoted, because MAAS works from the assignment brief and marking rubric themselves, not from a summary of them.
- Anything missing from the brief goes back to you before work begins, rather than being guessed at by an expert.
- Your personal details and your supervisor’s details are masked before your project reaches an expert.
- Work is checked against your own university’s marking rubric, criterion by criterion, not against a generic template.
What standard does an expert have to meet?
Matching is done against explicit criteria rather than who is free. Six things are checked before an expert is put in front of your brief, and the transcript rule is the one most providers do not apply.
- 01Subject code. The exact module code on your brief is identified first, not the broad subject area.
- 02Academic level above yours. The expert’s own level must be strictly higher than the level you are studying at.
- 03Country and academic system. UK, US, Australian or Canadian. This shapes spelling conventions and, more importantly, how an argument is expected to be built and evidenced.
- 04Evidence on their own transcript. The expert must have studied an equivalent module and achieved a Distinction or High Distinction in it. A pass in the subject does not qualify them to coach it.
- 05Exact discipline, not an adjacent one. A supply-chain brief goes to a logistics or operations specialist, never to a general business generalist.
- 06Coaching capability. Whether this person can guide and review this kind of work, which is a different skill from being able to produce it.
How are experts judged after they are matched?
On the quality of their guidance, their reliability against what they committed to, and how satisfied the student was. Explicitly not on how much work they produced.
- Volume of output is the metric of a writing service. It tells you nothing about whether a student understood their own argument afterwards, so MAAS does not use it.
- Reliability is tracked separately from quality. An expert who gives excellent guidance but misses agreed dates scores badly, because a missed date costs you a deadline.
- Expert identity, records and credentials are restricted. They are never shared with clients, and no expert ever sees your identifying details either.
What will MAAS ask before a dissertation project starts?
These are the questions put to you before an expert is matched. They are published here so you can see the depth involved, and so you can check how much of your own project you have already pinned down.
If you can answer most of these, your project is ready to scope. If several are still open, that is normal, and the ones you cannot answer are usually the first thing a mentor helps you settle.
- What is the word count, and is it a maximum or does it allow a margin?
- What is the exact submission deadline, and can it be evidenced?
- Is there a schedule for sending work to your supervisor, covering topic, literature review, methodology, discussion, first draft and second draft?
- Does your university require a specific structure, and does it set a word count per chapter?
- Is the topic chosen or do you need guidance? Has your supervisor approved it? Is it fixed, or can it still change?
- Is there a proposal, and has it been approved? Do you need guidance producing one, and by when?
- Is there an ethics form, and do you need help with it?
- Primary or secondary research? If primary, interviews or a questionnaire?
- Is any particular data-collection software required?
- Is a minimum sample size specified?
- Does your university require evidence of data collection, such as recordings for interviews, or the live link and results for a questionnaire?
- Quantitative or qualitative? If quantitative, which analysis software?
- Can you provide your university’s referencing guide, so formatting matches it exactly?
- Can you share your supervisor’s name and profile? At master’s and doctoral level this shapes how the argument should be pitched.
- Can you provide the module handbook and reading list?
- Can you give access to your university library for the literature search?
- Do you have a sample to work from, and is it the writing style, the structure, or the topic you want to follow?
- Will you need support preparing slides and a script for the defence, and how long is the session?
Guidance on a research proposal and preparation for a defence are scoped and quoted separately from the main project.
Bring your brief to a free discovery call
Fifteen minutes, no obligation. Bring the assignment brief and the marking rubric if you have them, because that is enough to tell you honestly whether MAAS can help, and what it would involve.
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