Editing with AI
The generated draft is a starting point, not a delivery. This page covers the surface you refine it on: the document on the left, the assistant on the right, and the rule that holds them together. The assistant never rewrites a clause behind your back. Every edit it makes arrives as a tracked change with Accept and Reject on it.
The divider between the document and the rail can be dragged, and Assistant in the editor's top row hides the rail entirely when you want the full width.
An AI edit arrives as a tracked change
You ask for the revision in the rail. The change lands in the clause with Accept and Reject on it, and the bar above counts what is still pending.
The two lenses
The tabs at the top of the editor are the only view control, and there are exactly two of them. Picking one never changes the document.
| Lens | Caption under the tabs | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| Draft | Your working copy. The AI's suggested edits appear inline for you to accept or reject. | The editable copy. Tracked changes are visible and resolvable here |
| Final copy | The clean copy with every change applied. This is what you export. | Read-only. Switch back to Draft to make changes |
The Draft tab carries a count of pending suggestions while any are outstanding, for example Draft (3).
Hovering the caption reveals the rest. On Draft: struck-through text is removed, added text is new, and you can turn on Edit to type directly or select text to send it to the chat. On Final copy: read-only, switch to Draft to make changes.
The editor's top row
| Control | Where | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Draft / Final copy | Left of the row | Switch lens. Draft shows the pending count |
| Show outline / Hide outline | Right of the row | Docks a clause list on the left of the paper. Clicking a heading scrolls to it without moving your cursor. An amber dot marks a heading edited this session, and a small count shows how many sources back it |
| Compare | Right of the row | Opens a menu of Versions and Revisions. Covered in Versions and revisions |
| Assistant | Right of the row | Hides or shows the assistant rail. Titled "Toggle the Assistant rail" |
The row below it holds the version bar: the version selector, the Revision stepper, when the draft was last saved, the Edit toggle, the Save menu, the save-status indicator, Search in draft and Version history. All of those are on Versions and revisions.
Editing by hand
Edit turns free typing on. It is off by default, so a draft always opens as a read-only review surface, and only the Draft lens on the latest version can turn it on. While it is on the button reads Editing, the formatting toolbar appears above the paper, and your changes autosave.
Search in draft opens a find bar over the active document with a match counter, previous and next controls, and Escape to close. Enter jumps to the next match, Shift with Enter to the previous.
Asking the assistant
The rail has two tabs, Chat and Sources, and nothing above them. Type your request into the composer at the bottom of Chat.
There is no mode switch and nothing to choose before you type. What a turn does follows from what you asked: the assistant may answer you, revise the passage you attached, or rewrite the whole document. Because every edit lands as a tracked change, it cannot quietly change the draft either way.
| Control | Where | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Composer | Bottom of the Chat tab | Takes your request. Placeholder: "Ask a question, or describe a change…" |
| Deep Mode | Composer rail, left | The more thorough pass, for this turn |
| Document type | Composer rail | The draft's own document type. The one setting that changes what a rewrite produces rather than how it reads |
| Settings | Composer rail | Expands the band holding Jurisdiction, Tone, Response language and Length |
| Send | Composer, right | Sends the turn |
| Stop generating | Composer, right, while the agent is working | Stops the running turn |
While the agent is streaming the composer stays live and its placeholder changes to "Type to interrupt and send a new message…". Sending then does exactly that: it stops the running turn and starts yours.
Jurisdiction is fixed for the session
In the assistant's settings band, Jurisdiction is pinned, exactly as it is on the home. It shows the jurisdiction the run was stamped with and cannot be changed. Every follow-up continues under that law, so a session cannot change governing law halfway through. Tone, Response language and Length open on the draft's own values and are only sent when you actually change one, so a revision never silently resets a value you chose at the start.
When the assistant asks first
If a request leaves something genuinely open, a question dock appears above the composer and the composer locks, because the dock is the input for that turn. Work through it with Continue, and Send on the last question. Not sure. Skip this question defaults one; Skip. Proceed anyway defaults all of them. Answered questions stay above the dock with a Revise control.
Where the agent lists facts it needs but asks no structured question, those appear in the transcript instead, under To continue, please provide.
Under the thread, You might also collects the follow-ups the agent suggests, including whole-draft rewrites. Tapping one sends it.
Working on one clause
You do not have to describe a clause in words. Select it in the document.
- An Add to chat pill appears over the selection. Clicking it attaches the passage to the composer, quoted with the heading it sits under, and lights the passage in the document.
- Right-clicking a selection opens the same Add to chat plus three instant actions: Explain this, Shorten and Rewrite this….
Once a passage is attached, the chip above the composer shows it. Show this passage in the draft scrolls the document back to it, and the remove control detaches it and clears the highlight.
The action palette
Attaching a passage also reveals the actions for it. Judicio generates a set for that exact passage; while it does, four universal actions are already live, so nothing waits on a call:
| Action | What it does | Touches the draft? |
|---|---|---|
| Explain this | Explains what the passage does, in plain English | No |
| Shorten | Fewer words, same legal effect | Yes, as a tracked edit |
| Remove ambiguity | Pin down the vague terms | Yes, as a tracked edit |
| Rewrite this… | Your own instruction for this passage | Yes, as a tracked edit |
The palette separates the two kinds deliberately. Questions render as one-line chips, and once the list is long enough to need naming, under the heading "Ask: nothing in the document changes". Changes render as cards carrying a line about what they will do, under "Change: arrives as tracked edits you accept or reject".
Two questions and two changes are promoted; All actions expands the rest inline rather than in an overlay, so the passage you are deciding about stays visible. Past six actions the expanded palette gains its own Search actions field. An action whose label ends in an ellipsis, such as Rewrite this…, reveals a one-line input and a Go button so you can say what you want.
Tracked changes
An edit lands in the document itself, on the Draft lens: removed text struck through in red, added text tinted green. Accept and Reject sit on the change. Where the assistant gave a reason for a change, a small information control beside those two carries it.
Resolving one flashes a confirmation at the change, Accepted or Rejected. Resolving in bulk flashes it at the top of the paper instead.
The review bar
Above the document, on the Draft lens, a review bar is the bulk and history layer. It stays put after the last change is resolved so you can still undo.
| Control | When it appears | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Pending count | Always | Reads "3 pending edits", or All changes resolved, or No pending edits. Adds "saving…" while a resolution is in flight |
| Accept all | While anything is pending | Applies every pending change |
| Reject all | While anything is pending | Discards every pending change |
| Undo | On the read-only review surface | Steps back through your accept and reject decisions. The keyboard shortcut is in its tooltip |
| Redo | On the read-only review surface | Steps forward again |
| Resolved this session (N) | Once you have resolved anything | Opens a log of what you accepted and rejected, newest first, each with its reason where there was one and how long ago |
Undo and Redo appear on the bar only when you are reviewing rather than typing. In Edit mode the formatting toolbar and your browser's own undo own that history instead.
The bar is hidden entirely while a colleague holds the draft, because resolving a change would edit their copy.
The Sources tab
Sources lists every authority the session consulted, deduplicated across turns and numbered to match the markers in the paper. The tab label carries the count, for example Sources · 14. Before anything is cited it reads "Sources the assistant cites will appear here."
Filter pills across the top narrow the list to All, Cases, Statutes, Web or Uploads, each with its own count, and a second row filters by issuing authority.
Each card carries:
- A type badge, and either a document or email marker or the jurisdiction and issuing authority.
- Its number in the session, matching the marker in the draft. A dashed, empty badge means the source was consulted but not cited; a spinner means it is still being verified.
- The title and the relevant excerpt.
- A relevance bar with its percentage, showing how strongly the source supports the draft.
- Supports chips naming the clauses it backs. Clicking one scrolls the editor to that clause and flashes it.
Clicking a card that points at one of your own files opens it at the cited page. A web source keeps its own outward link.
The loop runs both ways. A heading in the outline shows how many sources back it, and the in-paper source chip on a heading opens Sources focused on the first of them.
Sending the draft into a review
Above the editor, Review document offers to check the draft for risks, missing clauses and compliance. It saves the named version to your File Library as a PDF, then hands it to Document Review.
It is a two-step handoff, and the Review details note beside the button says so at every stage: saving the PDF is charged as document pages, like any upload, and the review itself is priced and confirmed separately before it runs. The button carries the stage — Preparing… while the copy is saved, then Open review once it is ready or has been reviewed, and Retry review if the saved copy failed to process.