When using courtaid.ai or any AI search tool, it is good to be aware of what is happening in the background. When you put in a query, a machine learning model will interpret your query into different search terms, these search terms are then used in in a enterprise search engine to find the most relevant documents. The top ten documents along with your search query are then sent to a ML model such as open AI 4o to interpret and come back with an answer. With this in mind there are a few things we can do to make sure we get the most out of Courtaid.ai chat:
- The prompt is everything. Typically, the more details you can give in your situation, the more relevant data the search engine will find and therefore you will get a much better and fuller answer for Courtaid.ai’s AI model
- New topic, start a new chat. Courtaid.ai uses a ‘context windows’, which means that your entire chat conversation as well as the reference data is sent to our AI model, this means the AI can get confused if it has irreverent data when you change topic in the same chat. It is best to start a new topic if you feel you need different sources or decide to ask nonrelated questions.
- Use the filters. At the top of the Chat, Search and Case Notes features there are filter options by state, type and court. It is usually best to start ‘broad’ and then filter down if you are getting irrelevant information, but If you know roughly what you are looking for even by state, manually filtering down your data sets can greatly improve results
- Use the Search feature if you want 20+ search results. You can still ask a question and it will still return you an answer, but it will also list the top 20 relevant documents based on your search. This can greatly speed up research tasks and is a great starting point for any law research tasks.
- Use the Case Notes feature to find case notes. You can still ask the AI chat filter to summarise a case, but the pre-summarised cases have been pre-prepared with a more powerful AI solution, so it is best to use those when available.
- Keep up to date. Every day at 730am new court data is added. If you want to stay on top of specific topics, you can use the Case Notes data feed and filter specific topics
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Peter Cole
Cofounder
Courtaid.ai