# Watch Research Answers Build in Real Time

> Ask a legal question and read the answer as it forms, with every point cited to a real judgment or statute as it arrives.

New · 17 May 2026

Legal research rewards patience, but waiting on a blank screen does not. Niyam now streams every research answer to you as it is composed, so you can start reading the moment reasoning begins instead of watching a spinner until the entire response lands at once.

## What changed

Research answers now arrive progressively, sentence by sentence, as Niyam works through your question. Each citation attaches to the point it supports the moment that point is written, so you watch the argument take shape with its authorities already in place. The underlying reasoning process has not changed — the same judgments and statutes are consulted, the same standard of citation is applied. What changes is when you see the result: as it forms, not after it finishes.

## How to use it

1. Open Research and type your question in plain language — for example, "Can an anticipatory bail application be filed after the FIR is quashed?"
2. Press enter and begin reading immediately. The answer streams in from the first sentence.
3. Hover any citation marker to preview the judgment or statutory provision behind it, even before the answer finishes.
4. If the analysis is heading in a direction that does not match your question, stop the stream and refine. You do not have to wait for the full response before deciding to redirect.
5. Once the answer finishes, all citations are clickable and the full text can be copied with sources intact.

## Why it matters

On a tight filing deadline, the opening lines of an answer usually tell you whether the analysis is going in the right direction. With streaming, you can make that call in seconds rather than waiting through a full response only to set it aside and start again. If the answer is narrowing to the wrong jurisdiction, or missing a material fact you should have included in your question, you know early enough to act on it without losing time.

For work involving several follow-up questions in a single session — tracing a principle from a Supreme Court bench judgment down through High Court applications across different states — the ability to read and redirect as each answer arrives makes the whole session feel closer to thinking aloud with a well-read junior than submitting a queue of batch requests and standing back.

There is also a confidence benefit. Watching an answer build with citations attached, rather than receiving a finished block of text and then checking the sources separately, makes the grounding of each claim immediately visible. You see the authority cited at the moment the claim is made. That is a more direct way of building trust in what you are reading.

## Good to know

- Streaming applies to multi-turn research sessions as well. Every follow-up question streams in the same way and keeps the earlier conversation context.
- If your connection drops mid-answer, the partial text is preserved. You will not lose the portion that arrived before the interruption.
- Copying the answer copies its citations too, so what you paste into a draft or a note stays sourced.
- The final answer is identical to what a non-streaming response would have produced. Streaming changes the delivery, not the content or the citation standard.
- For short questions with brief answers, the streaming effect is minimal. It is most noticeable for complex or multi-part questions where the answer runs to several paragraphs across multiple authorities.
- Answers remain grounded in real Indian case law and statutes. The requirement that every claim carries a checkable citation is unchanged.

https://niyam.ai/changelog/research-streaming-answers