Working with drafts
An answer is the reasoning. A draft is the deliverable. Research can produce both in the same run: the same findings, resting on the same citations, written out as a memo, an opinion or a letter you can hand on.
Turning drafting on
Drafting is a chip on the composer rail, on the Research home and on the follow-up composer inside a session. It is off by default.
| Where | What it does |
|---|---|
| Home composer rail | Tells the run you are about to start to produce a document as well as an answer |
| Session composer rail | Does the same for your next follow-up. Turning it on mid-session is normal: ask the question first, then ask for it written up |
| Card reveal panel | The same per-run setting, alongside Deep Mode |
The chip is a request, not a guarantee of shape. Ask for what you want in words as well: "draft a memo", "write this as an opinion to the client", "put it in a letter".
Choosing the document type
With Drafting on, a Document type chip appears beside it on the session composer. It reads Auto until you set one, meaning Judicio infers the kind of document from your question. Open it to name a document type explicitly, and every draft in the session follows that choice until you change it.
The Draft tab
Drafts live in the rail on the right of the session, behind the Draft & Sources control at the top of the chat panel. The rail has two tabs; Draft is the first.
Where the draft lives
Draft & Sources opens the rail beside the answer, with Draft and Sources as its two tabs.
When a drafting turn finishes, the thread also shows a note reading Draft created: review it in the Draft tab, with an Open draft button that takes you straight there.
Before anything is drafted, the tab reads No draft yet. Enable drafting and ask for a legal document to get started.
The version row
| Control | What it does |
|---|---|
| Previous version | Steps back one version. Its tooltip reads No earlier version at the start |
| Version selector | Picks a version directly |
| Next version | Steps forward one version. Its tooltip reads No newer version at the end |
| Save status | States whether your edits are saved, saving or failed, with a retry where a save failed |
| Version history | Opens the full history of versions for this draft |
| Save to Judicio | Files this version into your File Library |
| Export | Opens the export modal for this version |
Each new drafting turn adds a version rather than overwriting the last, so an earlier draft is always recoverable.
Editing
The draft is a live editor, not a preview. Type in it and a formatting toolbar sits above. Your edits save back to that version.
Citations survive editing: the chips in the draft resolve to the same numbered sources as the Sources tab, so a memo you have reworded still points at the authority it was built on.
Where Judicio proposes edits rather than rewriting, they arrive as tracked changes with controls to accept or reject them, individually or in bulk.
Editing is not available in three cases: while a version is still generating, when you hold viewer access on a shared session, and after the session has been promoted to Drafting. A colleague holding the edit lock is named in a notice above the editor.
Exporting the session
Export in the session header opens a modal titled Export research.
| Field | Options | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Format | PDF or Word (.docx) | These are the two formats. The preview is always rendered as a PDF, and says so when you have chosen Word |
| File name | Free text | Pre-filled from the draft title. Download is disabled while it is empty |
| Include citations | On by default | Keeps every claim traceable in the exported file |
| Include Source Pack (verbatim sources appendix) | Off by default | Appends the verbatim sources behind the answer |
| Embed verifiable citation links (recipients verify email; links expire) | Off by default | Turning it on reveals Restrict viewers to email domains (optional), where you can limit who can open the links |
A live preview of the export fills the lower half of the modal. The Source Pack appendix and verify links are added at download rather than shown in that preview, and the modal says so. Download saves the file; Cancel closes without exporting.
Export is disabled until the session has a completed answer or a draft, with the tooltip Available once the session has a response, citations, or a draft.
The archived-sources evidence pack is a separate download, and it lives in the Sources panel rather than in this modal. See Understanding results.
Filing the draft
Save to Judicio appears twice: once in the session header, and once as an icon in the Draft tab's version row. Both open the folder picker and file the draft into your File Library, where it becomes an ordinary document: searchable, shareable, and available as an input to any other feature.
In the header, the button is disabled until the session has a draft, with the tooltip Available once the session has a draft. In the version row, saving one particular version is disabled while that version is still generating.
Continuing in Drafting
Research writes documents. Drafting is built for working them: tracked changes, comparison, redline export.
When a session has a draft, Continue in Drafting appears on the right of the rail's tab strip. Its tooltip asks the question it answers: Need tracked changes, compare or redline export? Selecting it creates a drafting session from this research session's drafts and opens it.
| State | What you see |
|---|---|
| Before promotion | Continue in Drafting, disabled while a research turn is still running |
| After promotion | A Read-only badge and Open in Drafting |
Promotion is one-way in the sense that matters: after it, the drafting session is the single source of truth for the document, and the copy in Research becomes read-only. The badge says so, and its tooltip reads This draft is read-only. Editing happens in the linked drafting session. Your answers and sources in Research are untouched, and you can keep asking follow-ups.
Promotion needs editor access. On a session shared with you as a viewer, the control is not offered.
Next steps
- Check the sources behind the draft in Understanding results.
- Work the document properly in Drafting.
- Share the session, or hand it over, from Collaboration.