# For Legal Researchers — Niyam

> AI legal research for Indian research desks and knowledge teams: comprehensive, traceable coverage of 72,000+ Supreme Court and High Court judgments, every proposition cited to a primary source and checked for good law.

Niyam reads Indian statutes, rules, and judgments to answer in plain English, trace every proposition to its primary source, and flag a precedent's good-law standing — so your research is fast, comprehensive, and defensible end to end. You verify before you rely; the rigour stays yours.

## What you can do
- Coverage across 72,000+ Supreme Court and High Court judgments
- Every proposition traceable to the section or judgment behind it
- Good-law signals so your memo never rests on overruled authority

## Capabilities
- **Cover the corpus, miss nothing on point** — Behind every answer is the full corpus — central and state Acts, rules, and judgments — indexed with semantic retrieval, so the authority on point surfaces even when it's phrased differently from your query. The comprehensiveness a research product demands stops depending on guessing the right keyword.
- **A citation trail any reader can follow** — Every proposition carries its authority, so the memo you produce is auditable line by line. A partner, a court, or a colleague can open each cited section or judgment, read the exact paragraph, and confirm it says what the research says — the traceability that makes research defensible.
- **Check every authority's standing systematically** — Rigorous research checks each authority's standing, not just the lead case. Niyam surfaces how later courts have treated a judgment — followed, distinguished, referred, or overruled — so you flag the standing of every authority in a memo and never let an overruled case slip into a research product.
- **Turn one-off research into a knowledge base** — Save authorities, answers, and notes so a recurring question starts from established work rather than a blank page. The research desk's output compounds into a shared knowledge base the whole team draws on, with the chain of authority preserved behind every saved position.

## How it works
1. **Ask in plain English** — Frame the research question precisely. Niyam reads Indian statutes, rules, and judgments to understand exactly what you mean.
2. **Get cited, comprehensive answers** — Niyam retrieves across the corpus, grounds every proposition in primary sources, and flags each authority's good-law standing.
3. **Verify, trace, and save** — Open each source, confirm the standing, build the memo with a traceable trail, and save the authorities to your knowledge base.

## Frequently asked questions

### How comprehensive is the coverage?
Niyam indexes more than 72,000 judgments of the Supreme Court and High Courts alongside central and state Acts and rules, and uses semantic retrieval so the authority on point surfaces even when it's phrased differently from your query. Coverage keeps expanding, and the goal is that rigorous research doesn't miss the case that used the other word.

### Is the research traceable and auditable?
Yes. Every proposition links to the exact section, rule, or paragraph it relied on, so a memo's chain of authority is auditable line by line. Any reader can open each cited source and confirm it says what the research says — the traceability that makes a research product defensible.

### Does it check the standing of every authority?
Yes. Niyam flags whether later courts followed, distinguished, referred to, or overruled each judgment, so you can check the standing of every authority in a memo rather than just the lead case. When a judgment has been overruled, it points to the authority that now governs.

### Is this legal advice?
No. Niyam is legal research tooling that provides legal information grounded in primary sources. It does not give legal advice or create an advocate–client relationship. You remain responsible for verifying every citation and for the rigour and conclusions of the research you produce.

### Can I trust it not to fabricate a case in a research product?
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, which is exactly what breaks an audit trail. If a case is cited, it exists and you can open it, so every line of the memo stays traceable.

### Can the team build a knowledge base over time?
Yes. Save authorities, answers, and notes so a recurring question starts from established, good-law-checked work rather than a blank page. The research desk's output compounds into a shared knowledge base, with the chain of authority preserved behind every saved position.

### Is my research private?
Yes. Your queries and saved research stay private to your account. Niyam is built for the confidentiality research work demands — your work product is never sold and never used to train public models.

## Get started
Create your Niyam account in under a minute — ₹100 to start, 200 credits to try everything. Ask your first question and follow every proposition back to its source. Start your ₹100 trial at https://app.niyam.ai/register — 200 credits to begin, cancel anytime.