Configuring Questions
A question is a column. Whatever you write becomes a header, an extraction instruction sent to every document, and a shape the answers have to fit. This page covers the three places a question set comes from, and the modal where a single question is written.
Everything here happens on the Review Matrix home, in the mode panel below the file band.
The three modes
The mode panel is a strip of three, each with a caption that reacts to what you have selected.
| Mode | Caption | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Ask Judicio | Describe the matrix you want to create | A composer. Describe the comparison in plain language and Judicio writes a question set for you to edit |
| Smart Suggestions | The number of documents ready to work from, or Needs documents when none are selected | Question sets proposed from the documents themselves, up to three to choose between |
| Templates | Browse matrix templates | Saved question sets, yours, Judicio's, and any shared with you |
Switching modes never loses your file selection, and never loses the trail above it. Only the body of the panel changes.
Ask Judicio
The examples block
Above the composer sits a collapsible block of worked prompts. With no documents selected it offers starters for your jurisdiction that do not need files. Once you have documents it retitles itself Suggested from your documents with the caption "Example queries based on your selected documents", and writes prompts from the set you actually picked.
| Control | Where | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| The block heading | Top of the examples block | Collapses and expands the block |
| Regenerate | Beside the heading, once documents are selected | Asks for a fresh set of file-derived examples, bypassing the cache |
| An example | In the block | Fills the composer with that prompt |
While it works the block reads "Generating examples from your files…". If nothing comes back it says "Could not generate examples. Try again."
The composer
| Control | Where | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| The text area | Centre of the composer | Takes your description. Placeholder: "Describe the matrix you want to create". Disabled until at least one document is selected |
| Microphone | Composer rail | Dictates into the text area |
| Deep Mode | Left of the composer rail | Turns on the more thorough analysis for this run. Costs more credits |
| Settings | Right of the composer rail | Expands the run settings band. The chip states the current values |
| Generate questions | Right of the composer rail | Sends your description and writes a question set. Reads Generating while it works |
The settings band holds two cells. Jurisdiction is pinned and read-only, an echo of the workspace switcher in the top bar. Response language is the editable one, and it scopes to this run only, never to your saved profile. Its footnote states the limit plainly: it sets the language of chat, memos and briefs for the run, while extraction stays faithful to the source and quotes are never translated.
The generated question set
Once Judicio has written the questions, the composer is replaced by your query and the list.
The generated question set
Your query stays in a card above the list. A set that came back off-target is usually quicker to fix by rewriting the request than by editing every row.
| Control | Where | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Change query | On the query card | Returns you to the composer with your text intact |
| Regenerate | Question set header bar | Writes a fresh set from the same query |
| Save as template | Question set header bar | Saves the ticked questions as a reusable template |
| Row checkbox | Each question row | Includes or excludes that question from the run |
| Edit | Each question row | Opens the question modal on that question |
| Delete | Each question row | Removes the question from the list |
| Add a question | Below the list | Opens the question modal empty |
| Deep Mode | Footer | Same toggle as the composer rail |
| Start review matrix | Footer | Opens the confirm modal |
The header bar counts the selection as "N of M questions selected". Start review matrix stays disabled while nothing is ticked.
Smart Suggestions
Select your documents and this mode proposes question sets built from them. The section is headed Start from a suggestion and holds up to three cards: a primary recommendation and, when the documents support more than one angle, up to two alternatives. Each card carries the chip Suggested from your documents, a name, a description and a question count.
| Control | Where | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| A card | The grid | Opens that set in a panel below the row it sits in |
| Regenerate all | Section header | Rebuilds every suggestion at once. Discards any edits you made to them |
| Create template | Section header | Opens the Templates hub with a new matrix template started |
| Manage templates | Section header | Opens the Templates hub filtered to matrix templates |
With no documents selected there is nothing to suggest, and the grid says "No AI suggestions yet."
Inside an opened suggestion
The panel that opens under a card is headed Template recommended by AI, and states that Judicio analysed your documents to recommend it.
| Control | Where | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Back | Panel header | Closes the panel and returns to the grid |
| Regenerate | Panel, beside the set name | Rebuilds the suggestions |
| Save as template | Panel, beside the set name | Saves the ticked questions for reuse |
| Row checkbox | Each question row | Includes or excludes that question |
| Edit and delete | Each question row | Edits the question in the modal, or drops it from this run |
| Add question | End of the list | Adds a question of your own to the set |
| Deep Mode | Panel footer | Turns on the more thorough analysis |
| Start review matrix | Panel footer | Opens the confirm modal for this card's ticked questions |
Edits made here belong to this visit only. They are discarded when you change your document selection or press Regenerate all, because a fresh suggestion is a fresh starting point rather than a merge.
Templates
This mode is headed Start from a template and lists saved question sets. Three category pills filter it: Judicio templates, My templates and Shared with me, each with a count. Six cards fit on a page, and a range reading such as "1–6 of 12" sits between a previous-page and a next-page control.
| Control | Where | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| A category pill | Above the grid | Filters the grid to that category |
| A card | The grid | Opens the template in a panel below its row |
| Create template | Section header | Opens the Templates hub with a new matrix template started |
| Manage templates | Section header | Opens the Templates hub filtered to matrix templates |
| Previous page and next page | Below the grid | Page through the filtered list |
An empty category says "Nothing saved in this category yet." and offers Create template.
Inside an opened template
A template card opens the same panel, headed Saved template. It states its own rule: it uses every question in the template, and to change what is included you edit the template itself.
| Control | Where | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Back | Panel header | Closes the panel |
| Edit template | Panel, beside the template name | Opens this template in the Templates hub |
| Deep Mode | Panel footer | Turns on the more thorough analysis |
| Start review matrix | Panel footer | Opens the confirm modal for every question in the template |
Template questions are shown read-only here, without checkboxes. There is no per-run trimming of a template: run it whole, or edit the template. A template that has been stripped of all its questions cannot be started.
Every start path needs at least one document. A start button with none selected is disabled and explains itself: "Add at least one document to start."
The question modal
Editing or adding a question, from any of the three modes, opens the same modal. Its title is Add question or Edit question, and its primary button matches.
| Field | What it is | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Category | The column heading and the grouping the question belongs to | Required. Placeholder: "Enter category" |
| Preset suggestion | A chip reading Preset: and a name | Appears when your category matches a recognised legal column. Apply fills the question, answer type and any type settings in one click. A dismiss control hides it for that wording |
| Auto-generate | A link above the question field | Asks Judicio to draft the extraction prompt from the category you typed. Disabled until a category is present, and reads "Generating…" while it works |
| Question | The extraction prompt sent to every document | Required. Placeholder: "Enter question". Supports dictation |
| Answer type | A list of ten radio options | Decides the shape of the answer and which extra fields appear below |
| Currency code (optional) | A short text field | Appears for Currency and Monetary Amount. Placeholder: "USD, INR, EUR..." |
| Allowed values | A chip editor | Appears for Tag, and a tag question cannot be saved without at least one. Type a value and press Enter or comma to add it; Backspace removes the last one |
Cancel discards the change. The save button stays disabled until both Category and Question have content, and, for a Tag question, until at least one allowed value has been added.
The ten answer types
On a finished matrix, Add question and Edit question use the template form's compact answer-type selector. They also offer Column label (optional) separately from Category. Category describes the topic and supplies the heading when no custom label is set. Existing labels and compatible currency, tag and merge settings are preserved when editing.
The answer type is not cosmetic. It tells the extractor what shape to return, and it decides how the cell is drawn in the grid.
| Answer type | Use it for | How the cell reads |
|---|---|---|
| Text Extraction | A clause, a name, a phrase lifted from the document | Text, with any lists or emphasis preserved |
| Yes / No | Presence or absence, a binary position | A neutral pill for a clean Yes, No, Conditional or Partial. A qualified sentence stays as text |
| Date | An effective date, a deadline, an expiry | A pill with a calendar mark, when the value is short |
| Amount | A quantity or figure with no currency attached | Text |
| Percentage | A rate, a share, a threshold | Text |
| Currency | Which currency an agreement is denominated in | A neutral pill when the value is a recognised currency code |
| Monetary Amount | A cap, a fee, a payment | Text. Pair it with a currency code so the figures compare |
| Tag (closed vocabulary) | A classification you define yourself | A neutral pill. The extractor must choose from your allowed values |
| List | Several items in one answer | Text, rendered as a list |
| Summary | A short account rather than a lifted value | Text |
Text answers vary in wording across documents, which makes them hard to scan. A Tag question with allowed values such as High, Medium and Low forces every document into one of your own buckets, so the column becomes comparable at a glance. It is the one answer type that will not save without its companion list.
Limits worth knowing
- A new run carries up to 25 questions. Ticking a twenty-sixth is refused with "Maximum 25 questions allowed".
- A question with an empty prompt is blocked before the run starts, because it would produce a blank column.
- A Tag question with no allowed values is blocked for the same reason: nothing tells the extractor what to choose from.
- A matrix holds up to 50 documents.