Last updated: June 2026
AI Disclosure
Niyam is an artificial-intelligence product. This page is a plain, complete disclosure of what that means: how the AI works, where it can fail, and what you — the legal professional using it — remain responsible for. We would rather tell you exactly where the limits are than have you discover them in front of a court. The Service is operated by NIYAM.AI APP PRIVATE LIMITED.
1. Niyam is an AI system
Niyam is an AI legal assistant for India. Its answers, summaries, drafts, and analyses are generated by artificial intelligence — not written, reviewed, or approved by a human lawyer before they reach you.
Every output you see is produced by software making statistical predictions about language. There is no advocate on the other side of the screen checking the answer before it is shown to you. That checking is your job, and this page explains why.
2. How the AI works
Niyam combines large language models (LLMs) with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). When you ask a question, the system retrieves relevant material from our indexed corpus of Indian judgments and statutes, then uses a language model to compose an answer grounded in that retrieved material and to attach citations.
Retrieval and citation grounding are designed to keep answers tethered to real sources rather than invented ones. This meaningfully reduces error — but it does not, and cannot, eliminate it. The underlying language models are provided by third-party AI providers and are probabilistic by nature.
3. The AI can — and sometimes will — make mistakes
This is the most important thing on this page. AI-generated outputs can be wrong. They may contain factual errors, omissions, outdated law, misreadings of a judgment, or — despite our grounding mechanisms — citations that are misattributed or, in rare cases, fabricated.
An answer that reads as fluent, confident, and well-organised is not, for that reason, correct. AI systems produce wrong answers in exactly the same confident tone as right ones. Do not mistake polish for accuracy.
Treat every Niyam output as a research starting point — a set of leads to verify against primary sources — not as a finished, authoritative conclusion you can rely on as-is.
4. Citations and grounding have limits
We invest heavily in grounding answers in primary sources and in surfacing the judgments and provisions an answer relies on, so you can check them yourself. When the corpus does not contain adequate grounding for a reliable answer, Niyam is designed to say so rather than guess.
Even so: a citation appearing in an answer is not a guarantee that the cited authority says what the answer claims it says, or that it remains good law. Always open the cited source and read it before relying on it. The absence of a citation does not mean no relevant authority exists — only that we did not surface it.
5. Good-law checking is corpus-bound
Niyam can flag whether a cited judgment has been approved, distinguished, criticised, or overruled within our indexed corpus. This is a useful first-pass signal — but it is assessed only against our corpus, as at the time of your query.
Judgments decided after our corpus was last updated, or decisions from courts and tribunals we do not fully index, cannot be checked. For any high-stakes matter, independently verify good-law status through an authoritative citator service such as Manupatra or SCC Online.
6. Corpus coverage is not comprehensive
Our corpus covers more than 72,000 Indian judgments from the Supreme Court of India and the High Courts. This is substantial, but it is not every judgment ever delivered. Tribunal decisions, many appellate orders, state-level legislation, and subsidiary rules have limited or no coverage at this stage.
Gaps in coverage mean relevant authorities may simply not appear in an answer. We expand coverage on a rolling basis, but you should never assume that what Niyam returns is the complete set of relevant law on a question.
7. You must verify before you rely
Niyam is a tool for qualified legal professionals who retain full responsibility for everything they produce. You must independently verify every output before relying on it in professional work — and certainly before submitting anything to a court, tribunal, regulator, or client.
Submitting AI-generated content to a court without independent verification — and without any disclosure that applicable court rules or bar council guidelines may require — is your professional responsibility alone. Using Niyam does not reduce, transfer, or discharge your duty of care to your client or your duty of candour to the court.
The Bar Council of India and state bar councils may issue guidance on the use of AI in legal practice. You are responsible for knowing and following the guidance that applies to you.
8. Niyam does not give legal advice
Nothing Niyam generates is legal advice to any end client. Niyam is the instrument; the lawyer using it is the advisor. The client's relationship is with the lawyer, not with Niyam.
If you are a member of the public seeking advice about a specific situation, consult a qualified advocate or solicitor enrolled with a Bar Council. AI-generated research is not a substitute for personalised legal advice from a professional who understands your circumstances.
9. No warranty and no guaranteed outcome
The Service is provided on an 'as is' and 'as available' basis. We make no warranty, express or implied, as to the accuracy, completeness, currency, or fitness for a particular purpose of any output, and we do not warrant that outputs will be free from fabrication, omission, or mischaracterisation of legal authority.
Nothing Niyam produces is a prediction or guarantee of any legal result. Outcomes in legal matters depend on facts, forum, and judgment that no AI system can guarantee.
10. Your data and AI training
Your inputs are private — never sold, and never used to train public models. Your queries and documents are processed solely to deliver the Service to you.
To generate answers, your inputs are passed to third-party AI model providers for inference under contractual data-handling terms. We describe how we handle data in our Privacy Policy and Data Processing Agreement. Practise data minimisation: include only the personal data a task genuinely requires.
11. Changes to this disclosure
As the AI underlying Niyam evolves, this disclosure may change. The current version is always available at niyam.ai/legal/disclosure, and the date it was last updated is shown at the top of this page.
12. Contact
NIYAM.AI APP PRIVATE LIMITED
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