# Build a Draft by Answering Questions

> Start a guided fill-session, answer plain questions about your matter, and watch the draft assemble itself as you go.

New · 19 May 2026

## What changed

Draft now offers a guided fill-session mode. Instead of opening a blank editor and deciding where to start, you choose the document type you need and Niyam walks you through a structured series of questions. The questions follow the order a careful draftsperson would work through — parties first, then the cause of action, the relief sought, the jurisdiction, relevant dates, and so on. As you answer each question, the corresponding clauses and paragraphs populate in the document alongside you. You can watch the draft take shape with each answer, so the connection between what you tell Niyam and what appears on the page stays clear throughout the session.

This mode is designed for documents where the underlying structure is largely predictable and the main variable is the facts of your specific matter. A guided session lets you supply those facts systematically rather than discovering mid-draft that you missed a party's designation or the precise date from which a notice period should run.

## How to use it

1. Open **Draft** and choose **Start a guided fill-session**.
2. Select the document type you need — a legal notice, a plaint, a reply, an agreement, or another format from the available list.
3. Work through the questions one at a time. Answer in plain language; Niyam handles converting your answers into suitable legal phrasing and places the result in the right clause.
4. Skip any question where you do not have the detail yet. The draft continues building around the gap and leaves a clearly marked placeholder where the missing fact belongs.
5. Once you reach the end of the questions, review the assembled draft in the editor. Edit any paragraph directly, add your own clauses, or remove anything that does not fit your matter.
6. When you are satisfied with the draft, use the polish or export options from the same screen to finalise it.

## Why it matters

Drafting from a blank page is slow, and it is easy to miss a clause that only becomes important when the other side raises it in response. A guided session functions as a built-in checklist: by the time you finish answering the questions, the prayer, the jurisdiction clause, the cause-title, the verification, and the relevant recitals have all received the inputs they need. Nothing is omitted because you were working in a hurry or tackling a document type you have not drafted recently.

The approach also keeps your facts consistent across the whole document. Because every clause is assembled from the same set of answers, party names, dates, and amounts stay uniform from the first paragraph to the final verification without any retyping. For long documents in particular, that uniformity is easy to lose when editing freehand across many pages and sections.

For advocates and in-house counsel handling a steady volume of routine filings, guided sessions make the drafting step faster and more disciplined. For law students working on less familiar document types, the structured questions provide a scaffold, so the final output has a coherent shape rather than something assembled by guesswork under pressure.

## Good to know

- You remain in full control of the text at every stage. Everything the session produces is editable in the draft editor, and nothing is locked.
- Unanswered questions leave a visible placeholder in the document. You will not accidentally export a draft with a blank where a critical fact should be.
- You can mix guided and manual work. Skip any question you prefer to handle yourself and type directly into the editor for anything the guided flow does not cover.
- A guided session is a starting point, not a finished document. Read the assembled draft carefully before it goes out, particularly for complex or contested matters where standard questions may not capture every relevant nuance.
- The range of supported document types will expand over time. We are prioritising additions based on what users request most frequently.

https://niyam.ai/changelog/draft-guided-fill-sessions