jurispraxis.ai understands questions in plain language. You do not need keywords or search operators. Describe the task as you would describe it to a colleague.
How to ask a question
- On the home screen (What are we looking into today?) or in an open chat, type your question in the question field.
- Send it with the arrow button or the Enter key. Shift + Enter starts a new line.
If you reload the page before you send, you do not lose your work. In a new chat, on the home screen or in a project, the field keeps the text, the sources, the skill and the attached files. In an open chat, it keeps the text and the files. This works in the same browser tab.
The more specific the question, the more precise the answer. It helps to give:
- the subject of the dispute and the key argument;
- the area of law or the provision, for example an article of a code;
- the country, if the question is about one: the Netherlands, France or Poland;
- the court, the level of court or the period, if they are important.
Example. “Find case law of the Hoge Raad on when a court can reduce a contractual penalty under article 6:94 of the Dutch Civil Code.”
Ask in the language you work in. The answer comes in the language of your question. The names of courts, statutes and documents stay as the sources write them, and the passages that the answer cites are shown in the language of the source.
What happens during the search
While jurispraxis.ai prepares the answer, it shows its work step by step. At the top of the answer, the list of steps is open under Thinking. When the answer is ready, the same button shows Steps and the number of steps:
- Choosing the sources — the service decides which sources the question needs, and then names them after Sources:.
- Searching — the search in those sources. Then Results found: gives the number of documents found.
- Reading the documents — the service reads the documents it found and takes out the passages that answer your question. Then Read: shows how many documents were useful out of how many.
- Looking for a skill — while the button shows Skill: Auto, the service may look for a skill that fits the question. Then Skills found: gives the number. If a skill fits, the steps show The skill «…» shapes this answer.
- Calculating — when the answer needs sums, periods in days or dates, the service works them out with a calculator, not in its head. Then Figures calculated: shows how many figures it worked out.
One question takes in at most 20 documents from the collections. Your own files are not included in this limit. When a question reaches the limit, the step shows The document limit for one request is reached.
Press Steps to open or close the list. It shows which sources were used and how many documents were read.
What an answer is made of
An answer is not a summary from memory. It is a conclusion that stands on real documents:
- Findings — what the decisions, statutes and files found by the search say about your question.
- Quotations and links — each statement has a numbered reference to a direct quotation from a specific document. To learn how to check them, see Citations and sources.
Below the answer, Sources lists the documents that the answer uses, and Export takes the answer to Word or to the clipboard. See Exporting a chat to Word.
Follow-up questions
Research is a conversation. You can ask follow-up questions in the same chat, and the service takes the earlier messages into account. See Follow-up questions and bookmarks.
Choosing the sources
Before you ask, you can tell the service where to search: in the case law and legislation, in files that you pick from your library, or in both. By default, Sources: Auto is on, and the service searches every source you have. See Sources and Auto mode and Case-law filters.
The paperclip button (Add a file) attaches a PDF, Word (.docx) or text file to the question. See Uploading documents.
The form of the answer and the order of the work
In the same row, the skill button (Skill: Auto until you choose a skill) selects saved instructions: a memorandum for the client, a position for the court, a contract review, or a skill of your own. A skill sets the form of the answer and, if necessary, the order of the work. The chat keeps your choice until you change it. See Skills: saved instructions.