# For In-house Counsel — Niyam > AI legal research and contract review for Indian in-house counsel: answer the business in minutes with cited, good-law-checked authority over 72,000+ Supreme Court and High Court judgments, with company matters kept private. Niyam reads Indian statutes, rules, and judgments to answer the question the business is actually asking — in plain English, every answer cited to the section or judgment it relied on, and checked for good law. Handle the routine in-house, send only the genuinely contentious to outside counsel, and verify before you rely. ## What you can do - Fast, cited answers to the recurring legal questions the business asks - Good-law signals so the position you give leadership holds up - Private workspace — company matters never used to train public models ## Capabilities - **Ask the business's question, get a cited answer** — Type the issue the way the business put it to you — no boolean operators, no citation syntax. Niyam reads the relevant statutes and judgments and answers in plain English, with the controlling authority shown alongside, so you can turn a Slack message from sales into a defensible position in minutes. - **Give a position you can open and explain** — Every answer carries its authority, so when leadership or the business asks why, you open the cited section or judgment and show the basis for the position. Nothing you tell the board rests on a black box — the source is one click away. - **Make sure the position rests on current law** — Niyam surfaces how later courts have treated a judgment — followed, distinguished, referred, or overruled — so the advice you give the business doesn't rest on a precedent the courts have moved past. When the law has changed, it points you to the authority that now governs. - **Read contracts against Indian law before you sign** — Run a counterparty's draft against the law and Niyam flags the clauses that matter — indemnity, liability, governing law — and explains each with a citation you can open. You catch the tilt before it reaches signature, and keep the commercial calls where they belong: with you. ## How it works 1. **Ask in plain English** — Put the business's question the way it was put to you. Niyam reads Indian statutes, rules, and judgments to understand exactly what you mean. 2. **Get a cited answer** — Every answer comes grounded in primary sources — sections, rules, and judgments — with citations you can open and defend to leadership. 3. **Verify and save for the team** — Read the source, confirm it's still good law, give the position, and save it so the next question starts from the team's record. ## Frequently asked questions ### Which recurring questions can the team handle with Niyam? The routine breadth in-house work involves — liability caps, governing-law and indemnity clauses, statutory obligations under Acts like the Indian Contract Act, 1872 and the Companies Act, 2013, limitation periods, and the contract review that fills the day. Niyam answers them grounded in primary sources so you can clear the queue in-house and reserve outside counsel for the genuinely contentious. ### Are our company matters private? Yes. Your queries and saved work stay private to the company's account. Niyam is built for the confidentiality in-house work demands — your matters are never sold and never used to train public models, so sensitive commercial questions stay inside the business. ### Will the position hold up if leadership asks why? Every answer links to the section or judgment it relied on, and Niyam shows whether that authority is still good law. So when the board or the business asks for the basis, you open the source and explain the position rather than pointing at a black box. ### Is this legal advice? No. Niyam is legal research and drafting tooling that provides legal information grounded in primary sources. It does not create an advocate–client relationship and does not replace advice from a qualified advocate where the matter warrants it. You remain responsible for verifying every citation and exercising professional judgment on what to advise the business. ### Can an AI be trusted not to invent a case I'd put to the board? Niyam answers by retrieving from a corpus of real Indian judgments and statutes, then citing what it relied on — it doesn't generate citations from nothing the way a free-text chatbot can. If a case is cited, it exists and you can open it. Every claim carries a source you verify, so no fabricated authority makes it into a position you give leadership. ### Does it help with reviewing contracts the business sends over? Yes. Run a counterparty's draft against Indian law and Niyam flags the clauses that matter — indemnity, liability, governing law — and explains each with a citation you can open. You catch the tilt before signature and keep the commercial calls with you. ### How fast does the team see value? A recurring question that used to take a day or a call to outside counsel turns into a cited answer in minutes — so the value shows on the first one. Over time the team's saved answers become a shared memory the next question starts from. ## Get started Create your Niyam account in under a minute — ₹100 to start, 200 credits to try everything. Turn the next question from the business into a defensible position in minutes. Start your ₹100 trial at https://app.niyam.ai/register — 200 credits to begin, cancel anytime.