Drafting Templates
A drafting template is a document's shape: a name, a category, a tone, and an ordered list of sections, each with guidance about what belongs in it. Save one and the next document of the same kind starts from your own structure rather than from a blank brief.
Templates live in three places at once. Judicio templates ship with the product, My templates are yours, and Shared with me are your colleagues'.
Starting from a template
Open Templates on the Drafting home. The section is titled Start from a template and carries a count.
Three category pills filter the grid: Judicio templates, My templates and Shared with me. Judicio leads and is selected by default, because it is the only category guaranteed to hold something on a new account. Six cards fit a page; Previous page and Next page step through the rest, with a range beside them.
Each card shows where it came from, its name and description, and how many sections it has. Click one and it opens into a panel below its row.
A card, opened
The panel opens under the card's own row rather than over it, so the grid stays where it was and you can read the sections without losing your place.
| Control | Where | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Back | Top of the open panel | Closes the panel and returns to the grid |
| Edit template | Top right of the panel | Opens this template on the Templates page |
| Section list | Middle of the panel | Read-only. A template runs every section it contains, which is what the panel says |
| Deep Mode | Panel footer, left | The per-run thoroughness toggle |
| Start drafting | Panel footer, right | Starts the run from this template |
Two icon controls sit in the section header: Create template, which opens the creation dialogue described below, and Manage templates, which opens the Templates page filtered to drafting.
When a category has nothing in it, the grid reads "Nothing saved in this category yet." and offers Create template.
Because Drafting has no files-required gate, Start drafting is live whether or not you attached documents. Attaching them still helps: the draft then has your own material to anchor on.
Starting from a suggestion
Smart Suggestions is the same surface fed by Judicio rather than by your library. Select documents and it proposes up to three documents worth drafting from them, under Start from a suggestion. Each card is chipped Suggested from your documents.
Opening one reveals a panel headed Template recommended by AI, and it behaves differently from a saved template because these sections are yours to shape before you run them:
| Control | What it does |
|---|---|
| Section tick boxes | Include or exclude a section from this run. Everything starts ticked |
| Edit and delete on a row | Reword a section, or drop it |
| Add section | Adds a section of your own |
| Regenerate | Asks for a fresh suggestion. Any edits you made this visit are dropped |
| Regenerate all | In the section header. Refreshes every suggestion card at once |
| Save as template | Saves the ticked sections as a reusable template |
| Start drafting | Runs this card, with exactly the sections you left ticked |
Edits here are local to this visit. Changing which documents are selected clears them, because the sections were derived from those documents in the first place. With nothing selected, the section reads "No AI suggestions yet."
Saving a suggestion as a template
Save as template opens Save as template, a short two-step dialogue. On an organisation plan the steps are numbered Review template and Visibility; on a personal plan there is only the first.
Step one holds the name, marked required, and the sections it will save. Hovering a row reveals edit and delete controls, and Add section appends one. Saving is blocked until the name is filled in and at least one section remains.
Step two asks Who can see this template?
- Personal keeps it to you.
- Organization shares it with your organisation. Share with: then offers All members or Specific members, and the second reveals a member list to pick from.
The footer carries Cancel, Back on the second step, and Save template. On an organisation plan the first step's primary reads Save and continue instead.
Adding or editing one section
Adding or rewording a section opens a small dialogue titled Add section or Edit section, with a Section heading and a Guidance field. The primary reads Add section or Save changes, and stays disabled until the heading has something in it. Guidance may be left empty.
Creating a template
Create template, the plus icon in the section header, opens How would you like to create a template? with three methods.
| Method | What it does |
|---|---|
| Start from scratch | Opens the drafting template editor on an empty template |
| Extract from a document | Reads a document you upload and builds a template from it |
| Duplicate an existing template | Copies a template you can already see, as an editable template of your own |
While a method is running, the dialogue cannot be closed.
Extract from a document
Judicio reads the document and extracts a reusable drafting template from it: its category, its ordered sections and its tone.
Click the upload area, which reads "Drop a file or click to upload" and names the formats it supports: PDF, DOCX, TXT and MD. One file at a time. A file over 50MB is refused with the message that the file size must be under 50MB.
Once a file is chosen it replaces the upload area, with Remove beside it. Extract template starts the extraction and reads Extracting… while it runs. When it finishes, Judicio confirms the template was extracted and opens it in the template editor for you to check and adjust.
Duplicate an existing template
Choose a template to copy and Judicio creates an editable copy you can rename and adjust. The list covers everything you can see: your own, your organisation's, and Judicio's. Each row names the template with its category and section count.
Duplicate template creates the copy, named "Copy of" plus the original's name, always as a personal template, and opens it in the editor. Where there is nothing to copy the list reads "No templates available to duplicate."
The template editor
The editor is a full page, titled New drafting template for a fresh one and Edit drafting template for one you extracted or duplicated. Back to templates and Cancel both leave without saving, and Save template saves and returns you to Drafting.
There is no unsaved-changes prompt. Leaving discards what you have typed.
The editor
It is one page rather than a wizard: the name and description, the category and tone, the ordered sections with their guidance, and the instructions that apply to every draft made from it.
The fields
| Field | What it is |
|---|---|
| Template name | Required. Saving without it fails with the message that a template name is required |
| Description | A line about what the template is for. It appears on the card |
| Category | The kind of document. Type your own, or pick from the suggestions, which follow your jurisdiction |
| Tone | How documents from this template should read: Formal & precise, Firm & assertive, Persuasive, Advisory or Plain-language. This is the template's own list, and it is not the Tone on a run's Settings ribbon, which offers Formal, Concise, Conversational, Academic and Advisory |
| Jurisdictions | Who sees this template. Pre-filled with your current jurisdiction. A user sees it when their selected jurisdiction matches a tag, and a template tagged as generic appears for everyone |
| Instructions | Optional global guidance for every draft from this template, such as citation style or length |
The Description, Instructions and section guidance fields all take dictation, so you can speak them rather than type them.
Note that this Tone list belongs to the template editor. It is not the same control as the Tone in the composer's settings band, which sets how a single run reads. See the FAQ.
The sections
Sections is the ordered list the template produces. Add section appends a blank one, and the editor starts with a single blank section.
Each row holds a Section heading, a guidance field asking what this section should contain, a numbered position, a grip you can drag to reorder the list, and a control to remove it. Reordering is by dragging; there are no up and down buttons. Removing a section takes effect immediately, with no confirmation.
A section left completely blank is dropped when you save, silently.
Visibility
Visibility offers Personal or Organisation. A new template defaults to Organisation. Sharing with named individuals is done from the Templates page rather than here.
Where else templates live
Edit template on a saved card, and Manage templates in the section header, both open the Templates page filtered to drafting. That page is the home for everything about templates across features: renaming, sharing, and browsing the whole library. See Templates.