Getting started with Research
This is the shortest path from a question to a cited answer. Every control named here is on the screen shown beside it.
Open Research
Select Research in the left sidebar. The home opens on the heading What would you like to research today? with the subtitle Answers grounded in your documents and trusted sources.
Three controls sit on the right of that heading: Watch demo plays the feature walkthrough, Take tour highlights the controls in the live product, and View guide opens this documentation. Take tour appears only where a tour exists for the screen.
Under the heading, a three-step trail states where you are: Add documents, tagged Optional, then Ask your question, then Review and run. Your active jurisdiction sits at the right-hand end of the same row, as a read-only flag and country name.
Add documents, or skip them
The dashed band under the trail reads Research runs without documents and Add them to ground the answer in your own material. It carries two buttons: Choose files opens the Files panel on its Files tab, and Upload opens it on the Upload tab. Neither opens a picker of its own.
Once files are selected the band turns solid and summarises the selection: the file count, the page total when every file has one, and a chip per document with its own remove control. The two buttons become Add more and Clear all.
Research accepts up to 10 files. From eight onwards the band shows a 8 of 10 style readout, and past ten it tells you how many to remove before you can continue.
Documents are optional for the Ask Judicio flow only. Starting from a suggestion or a saved template needs at least one.
Ask your question
Three modes sit above the composer: Ask Judicio, Smart Suggestions and Templates. Each carries a caption saying what it will do with what you have selected. Stay on Ask Judicio for your first run.
Type into the box, which reads Ask anything, or select a file to analyse. The microphone beside it dictates into the same box.
When there is text, the submit control is a labelled Start research button. While the box is empty that spot holds a greyed arrow you cannot press, so an empty question can never be sent.
Under the box sit the Drafting and Deep Mode chips, and the Settings chip on the right of the same rail.
Set tone, language, length and sources
The Settings chip shows its current values, for example Settings: Formal · English · Balanced. Selecting it opens a band under the composer rather than a pop-up.
The band holds Jurisdiction as a read-only stamp, then Tone, Response language and Length. When your jurisdiction is India or the United States it also holds Repositories, where scope presets and a browser of courts, tribunals and regulators decide what the run may search.
These settings are saved to your profile, not to one run. The band says so in its footer: Saved to your settings, not to this run.
Answer any clarifying questions
When your question leaves something open, Judicio asks before it commits. The question appears in a dock directly above the composer, one at a time, with a counter reading Question 1 of 2 and a row of progress dots. The composer itself is locked while the dock is up, and its placeholder reads Answer the question above to continue.
Pick an option, or choose Other and type your own, or take the dashed None of these / not sure row. The footer offers Continue, Back once you are past the first question, and Skip. Proceed anyway, which submits with Judicio's own assumptions for everything you left blank. On the last question the primary button reads Send.
Clarifying turns cost no credits.
Watch it search
Judicio searches your selected documents and the sources for your jurisdiction, and reports what it is doing as it goes. The answer streams into the thread as it is written.
You can stop a running turn at any point: the composer shows a stop control while the turn streams, and Esc does the same thing.
Read the cited answer
The answer arrives in a card headed Judicio. Numbered chips sit inline in the prose. Hover or focus one for a pop-up with the source title, the pinpoint and a quote, and Open in panel → to jump to the full entry.
Under the answer, a footer holds thumbs up, thumbs down and copy controls on the left, and on the right a line reading Cited 6 sources · 3 authorities. View in Sources. Selecting it opens the Sources tab.
Select Draft & Sources at the top right of the chat panel to show or hide that rail. It has two tabs: Draft and Sources, the second carrying the citation count.
Follow up in the same session
Type your next question in the composer, which now reads Ask a follow up. Enter sends and Shift+Enter starts a new line. The box holds 5,000 characters and shows a counter as you approach the limit.
Judicio also offers Suggested follow-ups as chips under the answer. Selecting one asks it.
To ask about one passage, select the text in the answer. An Ask about this button appears at the selection, and the quoted passage rides on your next question as a removable chip above the box.
Follow-ups cost half an opening question.
Export the session
Select Export in the session header. The modal is titled Export research.
Choose a Format, either PDF or Word (.docx), name the file, and leave Include citations on so every claim stays traceable. Two further toggles are available: Include Source Pack (verbatim sources appendix) and Embed verifiable citation links (recipients verify email; links expire), which reveals an optional field to restrict viewers to named email domains. A live PDF preview sits underneath. Download saves the file.
Export stays disabled until the session has something to export. Its tooltip then reads Available once the session has a response, citations, or a draft.
What to do next
- Ground the next one in your files. Documents make the answer specific to your matter. See Composing queries.
- Check the sources. Each citation carries a verification state, and web sources can be downloaded as archived PDFs. See Understanding results.
- Turn it into a memo. The Drafting chip makes the same run produce a document. See Working with drafts.
- Save the setup. A run you will repeat belongs in a template. See Research templates.
Next steps
- Read Composing queries for every control on the home screen.
- Read Understanding results for how to read and verify an answer.
- Check Jurisdictions before you ask about a jurisdiction you have not used yet.