Getting Started
This is the shortest complete path through Drafting: say what you need, let Judicio write it, revise it as tracked changes, and export. Every control named here is on screen, in the order it appears.
Open Drafting
Click Drafting in the left sidebar.
The home opens on the question What would you like to draft today?, with the subtitle "Start from a brief, your own files, or a template." Beside it sit Watch demo, which plays the product demo in place, and View guide, which opens these docs. Take tour appears alongside them when a guided tour is available for your account.
Under the hero, three things stack in the order you use them:
- A step trail reading Add documents, marked Optional, then Describe the document, then Review and run. Your workspace jurisdiction sits flush right, as a read-only echo of the top-bar switcher.
- The file band, which is the one place the page asks for documents.
- The mode panel, with Ask Judicio, Smart Suggestions and Templates.
Below all of that, Recent activity lists your last five drafts, grouped under Today, Yesterday and Earlier, with View all for the full history.
Attach documents, or skip them
Drafting works from a brief alone, which is why the empty file band reads Draft from a brief alone and "Add documents to draft from your own material." Attaching a precedent is what makes the draft mirror your own structure and defined terms.
To attach documents, click Choose files to open the Files panel on its Files tab, or Upload to open it on the Upload tab. Neither button opens a picker of its own.
Once files are selected the band changes: it counts them, and each appears as a chip you can remove. Add more and Clear all replace the two empty-state buttons, and past six chips the rest collapse into a +N more control. Unlike Timeline, Review Matrix and Document Review, Drafting enforces no file cap, so the band never shows a limit readout.
Describe the document
The mode panel offers three routes, each with a caption on its tab:
| Mode | Caption | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Ask Judicio | Describe the document you need… | A draft written from your own brief |
| Smart Suggestions | The count of documents ready to draft from, or "Add documents to get suggestions" | Up to three cards of document outlines built from the files you selected |
| Templates | Browse drafting templates | A saved outline, run exactly as saved |
This walkthrough takes Ask Judicio, which is where the panel opens.
Type what you need into the composer. Its placeholder reads "Describe the document you need…". Above it, an examples panel offers worked prompts for your jurisdiction: click one to fill the composer, or Regenerate for a fresh set. Select files and that panel retitles itself Suggested from your documents.
Two chips sit on the composer rail:
- Deep Mode turns on the more thorough pass. Its tooltip states the trade: more thorough, best for complex or lengthy legal documents, uses more credits.
- Settings expands a band whose summary the chip already shows, for example "Settings: Formal · English · Balanced".
The settings band holds five cells. Jurisdiction is pinned and cannot be edited here, because the top-bar switcher is the only jurisdiction control. Document type applies to this run only and defaults to Auto. Tone, Response language and Length are saved to your account settings, which the band says in a line under it: "Tone, language and length are saved to your settings. Document type applies to this run."
Prefer to speak? The mic button beside the composer is Voice input, which transcribes into the text field. Long-form Dictation is a different feature and appears only where it is enabled for your account. See Dictation.
Click Start drafting. The button reads Starting while the run is being created.
Confirm the estimate, if files are attached
A brief with no files starts immediately. Attach even one document and the modal Confirm drafting opens first, subtitled "Review the documents and credit estimate before starting."
| Region | What it shows |
|---|---|
| Selected documents | Every attached file with its page count |
| Your request | Your typed brief. Not shown for a Smart Suggestions run |
| Drafting source | The template name, or "Draft from your brief and documents". Reads Selected template or Suggested template when you started from a card |
| Estimated time | The projected run time, and a reminder that it runs in the background so you can keep working |
| Cost summary | The credit estimate for the mode you are in, and your remaining balance |
| Deep Mode | The same per-run toggle. Changing it here re-prices the run |
| Cancel and Start drafting | Close, or start |
Watch it draft
The editor opens and the draft streams into it. While the agent is still working you see its reasoning above the paper, and the version label reads Generating draft….
You do not have to wait. Leave the page and the run keeps going: the home's Recent activity and the In progress tab both carry the row, and you are notified when it is ready. The In progress table also carries a Stop drafting control on each row, and the note "Drafting runs in the background. You'll be notified when it's ready."
If the brief left something genuinely open, the assistant asks before guessing. A question dock appears above the composer with Continue through the questions and Send on the last one. You can answer Not sure. Skip this question on any one, or Skip. Proceed anyway on all of them, and Judicio uses its best assumption.
Read the draft
The finished draft fills the left of the screen; the assistant rail sits on the right, and the divider between them can be dragged.
At the top of the editor are two lens tabs. Draft is your working copy, captioned "Your working copy. The AI's suggested edits appear inline for you to accept or reject." Final copy is captioned "The clean copy with every change applied. This is what you export."
Alongside the tabs: Show outline docks a clause list on the left, Compare opens a menu of Versions and Revisions, and Assistant hides or shows the rail.
The bar below carries the version controls, an Edit toggle for typing directly, a Save menu for checkpoints, Search in draft and Version history. Those are covered in Versions and revisions.
Switch the rail to Sources to see the authorities the draft consulted, each with an excerpt, a relevance bar and, where it backs a specific clause, a Supports chip that jumps you to that clause.
Ask for a revision
In the Chat tab, describe the change you want. The composer's placeholder reads "Ask a question, or describe a change…". You do not pick a mode: the assistant decides between answering you and editing the draft, and every edit arrives as a tracked change either way.
To work on one clause, select it in the document. An Add to chat pill appears over the selection, and the passage is attached to the composer with its section heading. Attaching it also reveals a palette of actions for that exact passage: questions that change nothing, and changes that arrive as tracked edits.
A tracked change shows in place: removed text struck through in red, added text tinted green, with Accept and Reject on the change itself. Above the document, a review bar counts what is pending and carries Accept all, Reject all, Undo, Redo and Resolved this session.
See Editing with AI for the whole surface.
Judicio grounds the draft in your files and in cited law, and every authority is linked so a click confirms it. Read every clause, and accept each change deliberately.
Export, or keep it in Judicio
Click Export in the header. The export screen replaces the assistant rail, titled Export draft and subtitled "Pick a version and format. The editor previews it".
Pick a Version, then a format. The screen leads with one recommended format and says why: a Word redline while changes are still pending, a clean Word document once they are not. Choosing a format switches the editor's lens to match, so what you see is what downloads.
Name the file and click Download file, or click Save to Judicio to put the draft in your File Library. See Exporting.
Next steps
- Learn the editor and the assistant
- Save checkpoints and compare versions
- Reuse a document shape as a template