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Working Together

Once an item is shared, everyone with access works in the same session — not copies of it. This page describes what that looks like in practice: who's-here presence, live updates, shared conversations, and how Judicio prevents collaborators from stepping on each other's work.

See who's in the item​

The session header shows an avatar stack of the owner and collaborators. A green dot on an avatar means that person has the item open right now — hover it and Judicio says "Viewing now". Presence updates as people open and close the session, so you always know whether a colleague is looking at the same thing you are.

Live updates​

Changes made by one collaborator are pushed into everyone else's open session within moments:

  • A follow-up question and its streaming answer appear for everyone.
  • A saved draft edit, an edited matrix cell, or a renamed item refreshes in place.
  • A re-run's progress can be watched live by everyone with access, as it streams.

There is no need to refresh the page or re-open the item to see teammates' work.

Shared discussion threads​

Follow-up conversations on a shared item are fully shared. Every collaborator sees every thread — the main session conversation and any per-finding or per-cell chats — not just the threads they started. Each message carries its author's name and avatar, so a conversation between three colleagues reads like one.

  • Editors can post in any thread and start new ones.
  • Viewers can read every thread but cannot post.

This makes the item itself the record of the team's reasoning: questions, answers, and the discussion that led to a conclusion stay attached to the work, instead of being scattered across email.

Editing without collisions​

Concurrent editing is coordinated, not simultaneous:

  • Drafts use edit locks. When someone starts editing a draft (in Drafting, or a draft generated from Research), the editor is locked for everyone else, who see "[name] is editing" until that person finishes. This prevents two people from silently overwriting each other's changes.
  • Matrix cells are last-write-wins. Cells are small and independent, so the Review Matrix lets collaborators edit different cells freely; everyone's grid refreshes live as edits land.
Not a shared cursor

Judicio's collaboration is near-real-time: updates are pushed into open sessions as they happen. It is not Google-Docs-style simultaneous typing — two people cannot type into the same draft at the same moment, by design. For legal work product, a clean handoff beats interleaved keystrokes.

What viewers experience​

A collaborator with the Viewer role gets the complete, live, read-only picture. In a viewer's session the inputs are disabled: no chat composer, no draft editing, no re-run, no rename. Everything else works — reading results and threads, watching progress live, opening the item's source files, and exporting or downloading.

Attribution and credits​

Every contribution records who made it. Follow-up turns, thread messages, draft edits, and cell edits carry the acting user's identity — the item's history reflects the team's work, not just the owner's.

Credit Cost

When a collaborator runs something that costs credits — a follow-up question, a re-run — the credits come from the organisation's shared pool, attributed to the person who ran it, exactly as if they had run their own item. See Credits Explained.

Next steps​