Understanding results
A research session is a thread. Your question sits at the top of each turn, the answer under it, and to the right a rail holding the sources the answer rests on. Everything below describes one turn, and every turn behaves the same way.
One turn, end to end
The question, the answer beneath it carrying its numbered chips, and the Sources rail with its filters.
The answer
The answer arrives in a card headed Judicio and streams in as it is written. Numbered chips appear in the prose as the claims they support are made.
While the turn is still streaming the card carries no footer: the rating and copy controls only appear once the answer has settled, so a growing answer is not chased down the page by its own buttons.
Citation chips
Each numbered chip in the prose is a live control.
| Action | What happens |
|---|---|
| Hover or focus | A pop-up opens after a short delay, showing the source title, the pinpoint reference, the source label and a quote where one exists |
| Select | Jumps to that source's card in the Sources tab |
| Open in panel → | The same jump, from inside the pop-up |
| Long press, on touch | Opens the pop-up. A plain tap follows the chip |
Chips are numbered by the order the sources are first used in the prose, and the numbers match the badges on the cards in the Sources tab.
The answer footer
Once a turn is finished, a hairline footer appears under the answer.
| Control | Where | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Thumbs up | Footer, left | Mark as helpful. Records the rating for that answer. Once rated, both thumbs lock, and the tooltip reads You marked this helpful |
| Thumbs down | Footer, left | Mark as not helpful, with the same one-time behaviour |
| Copy | Footer, left | Copies the whole answer to the clipboard and confirms with a toast |
| Cited sources | Footer, right | Reads 6 sources · 3 authorities. View in Sources. Selecting it opens the Sources tab, expanding the rail if it is collapsed |
The cited-sources line counts distinct issuing courts and bodies, not databases. Where no source carries an issuing authority it simply reads 6 sources. View in Sources.
Asking about one passage
Select any text in the answer and an Ask about this button appears beside the selection. Choosing it attaches the passage to your next question as a quoted chip above the composer, with its own remove control. The chip is sent as context, so the follow-up is scoped to that passage rather than the whole answer.
Your own question
Your question sits above the answer in its own bubble, with two controls.
| Control | What it does |
|---|---|
| Edit query | Reopens the question for editing and re-runs the turn with your changes. The original stays in the session |
| Copy query | Copies the question text |
Where a turn has been edited, a version navigator appears with previous and next controls and a readout of which version you are looking at.
Clarifying questions
When your question leaves a material fact open, Judicio asks before it answers. The question docks directly above the composer, which is locked for the duration and reads Answer the question above to continue. The dock is the input surface for that turn, so there is nowhere else to type.
| Element | What it is |
|---|---|
| Counter and dots | Question 1 of 3 with a progress dot per step |
| Mode hint | Pick one for a single-answer question, Select any that apply for a multiple-choice one |
| Option rows | Numbered 1 to 9, so you can pick with the number keys |
| Other | A row that reveals a free-text field. Present when the question accepts free text |
| None of these / not sure | A dashed row that skips the question and lets Judicio use its own assumption |
| Continue | Moves to the next question. On the last one it reads Send |
| Back | Returns to the previous question, keeping your answers. Appears from the second question onwards |
| Skip. Proceed anyway | Submits immediately, with Judicio's assumption for everything unanswered |
The keyboard works throughout: arrow keys move, 1 to 9 pick, and Enter continues. Questions you have already passed are summarised in a card above the dock, with a control to revise them.
Where a question has no options at all, the dock offers a text box, a microphone, and a Not sure. Skip this question link.
Clarifying turns are free.
Facts Judicio could not find
Separately from the questions, a turn can list what it still needs as a read-only note under the answer, headed To continue, please provide, To advise on your specific matter, or Placeholders to fill in on a drafting turn. It is a note, not an input: answer it in your next follow-up.
A suggestion to go deeper
Where Judicio judges a question would be better served by a more thorough pass, it says so under the answer and offers Run with Deep Mode, alongside Dismiss. On the Starter plan the button is visible but disabled, with the plan tooltip. See Composing queries.
Following up
The composer at the foot of the thread reads Ask a follow up once a turn has completed. Enter sends, Shift+Enter starts a new line, and the box holds 5,000 characters with a counter appearing as you near the limit.
Under a finished answer, Judicio offers Suggested follow-ups as chips. Selecting one asks it straight away.
Follow-ups stay in the same session and inherit its jurisdiction and its source scope. They cost half an opening question, because the session already holds the material it searched.
The composer states plainly when a follow-up is not possible. While a turn streams it reads Waiting for response…; after a failure or a stop it points you at the retry instead.
The Draft & Sources rail
Draft & Sources sits at the top right of the chat panel and shows or hides the rail. It is one control for both surfaces, because the rail's own tabs choose between them.
| Tab | What it holds |
|---|---|
| Draft | The document, when the run produced one. See Working with drafts |
| Sources | Every source cited in the session, carrying the count as Sources · 12 |
Before anything is cited, the Sources tab reads Sources the assistant cites will appear here.
The split between chat and rail is draggable, and the rail can be collapsed entirely.
The Sources panel
Every card in the panel is one source. Its badge number is the number used in the prose.
Filtering
| Filter | Where | Behaviour |
|---|---|---|
| Type tabs | Top of the panel | All, Cases, Statutes, Web, Uploads, each with a count. A tab with nothing in it is not shown |
| Court pills | Under the tabs | One pill per issuing court or body, with a count. Selecting one narrows the list; selecting it again clears it |
| More | End of the pill row | Appears when there are more than six distinct authorities. Opens the rest as a list |
Court pills appear on All, Cases and Statutes, the tabs where an issuing authority means something, and they are grouped by the court that issued the decision, never by the database that returned it. The panel states this under the pills: Issuing courts and bodies. Never which database answered.
Two tabs carry a note of their own instead: Web says these pages have no issuing court, and Uploads says the same of your own files.
Also consulted
Below the numbered sources, a divider reads Also consulted. Everything under it is a source Judicio read but did not end up citing in the answer. Those cards carry a dashed, unfilled badge rather than a number, and hovering it says Consulted, not cited in the answer.
While a turn is still streaming, a card whose citation is not yet settled shows a spinner in place of its number.
What a card shows
Each card carries the source title, the excerpt the answer relied on, and either the file name and page for one of your documents or the site the page came from. A card for a web source is clickable in full: it opens the live page in a new tab.
Verification badges
Judicio checks formal citations against a citator and states the result on the card. There are three badges, and their absence is meaningful too: no badge means the citation was not the kind that can be checked.
| Badge | What it means |
|---|---|
| Verified | The citation resolved to the case it names. Where the citator returned a case name, the tooltip gives it |
| Resolved to a different case | The citation resolved, but to a different case from the one named. The tooltip names what it matched and tells you to double-check the cite |
| Could not be verified | The citator could not resolve the citation at all |
A separate treatment badge sits beside verification where the citator reached the authority, saying how later courts have treated it. The two are independent: a correctly resolved citation can still have been overruled, so both badges are shown rather than one standing in for the other.
There is no numeric confidence score in Research. The badges above are what the product states about a citation.
Per-source actions
Actions depend on what kind of source the card is.
| Action | On which cards | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Download | Web sources | Downloads the archived PDF of that page. The first request may take a few seconds while the snapshot is rendered |
| Add to folder | Web sources | Opens the folder picker and files the archived PDF into your File Library. Once saved, the button reads Saved |
| Share | Your own documents | Creates a verifiable share link scoped to that file and the cited pages. See Collaboration |
The evidence pack
A download control sits at the top right of the Sources panel. Its tooltip reads Download evidence pack with the number of citations it covers, and it builds a single PDF bundling the archived snapshot of every cited web source in the session.
The evidence pack is not an export format. It lives here, in the Sources panel, and it appears only once the session has cited at least one web source. Exporting the session itself is a separate control in the header, covered in Working with drafts.
The session header
| Control | What it does | When it is available |
|---|---|---|
| Back | Returns to the Research home | Always |
| Title | Select it to rename the session inline. Enter or clicking away commits, Escape reverts. A microphone sits beside the field | Editors and owners. A viewer sees the title as plain text |
| Badges | The template the run started from, the jurisdiction it is stamped with, the document type where one is set, and either a version count or a citation count | As applicable |
| Sharing | Share the session, or transfer it. See Collaboration | Organisation workspaces |
| Save to Judicio | Files the draft into your File Library | Once the session has a draft. Otherwise disabled, with the tooltip Available once the session has a draft |
| Export | Opens the export modal | Once the session has a completed answer or a draft. Otherwise disabled, with the tooltip Available once the session has a response, citations, or a draft |
Finding a run again
View all under Recent activity on the home opens the history screen, headed Research. It has three tabs, and a fourth in an organisation workspace.
| Tab | What it lists | Row actions |
|---|---|---|
| In progress | Runs still working, with their current stage | A stop control on the row, and, once you expand it, View live run and Stop research |
| Failed | Runs that failed, stopped or were cancelled, each with a plain-language reason | Retry research, which starts the run again |
| Completed | Finished runs, with a NEW badge on ones you have not opened | Re-run research, plus a more-actions menu offering Share and Transfer ownership |
| Shared | Items colleagues have shared with you, with who shared them and whether you are an Editor or a Viewer | Open the row |
Rows open on a click. Stopping shows Stopping research… and retrying shows Retry started. See In progress. The In progress table carries a standing note: Research runs in the background. You'll be notified when it's ready.
With no runs at all, the In progress tab offers Generate new research and View completed.
Next steps
- Turn a finished answer into a document in Working with drafts.
- Understand what the jurisdiction changed in Jurisdictions.
- Check the FAQ for troubleshooting.