As of 13 August 2026, AI can only partly add suitable terms and conditions to your sales proposal.
This still needs a person who signs their name to it.
Can you do it?
15 minutesto a draft.
1 hourto something you’d act on.
Cost, all in£0
Skill neededchat-fluent
Who has to check ita professional
What the alternative costsThe supplied commercial data does not include a price for a solicitor or other human alternative.
If this goes wrong, your proposal can create an unintended commitment on price, scope, liability, payment or cancellation.
What to actually do
Hand it to a person
The route this page recommends
Someone with a licence or accountable authority has to sign this before it counts.
Use a tool built for this
Second choiceDo it yourself
The distant thirdA chat interface, chat-fluent skill, and roughly 1 hour until you can act on the result.
How to actually do it
- Open the sales proposal, your current standard terms, pricing sheet and relevant company policies, including payment, cancellation, liability, intellectual property and data handling rules.
- Paste the full proposal and those source documents into the prompt, removing customer personal data and confidential information that the chatbot does not need.
- Add the missing commercial facts in the labelled section, including the parties, deliverables, timing, price, VAT treatment, payment milestones, customer responsibilities and intended governing law.
- Run the prompt and separate the generated clauses from the assumptions, [NEEDS DECISION] items and solicitor red-flag checklist.
- Compare every price, date, deliverable, payment rule, liability position and policy reference in the draft against your current documents, then amend the draft to remove unsupported promises.
- Send the proposal, source terms and AI draft to your solicitor or contract owner to check enforceability, regulatory requirements, data protection wording and conflicts with any existing customer agreement.
- Apply the approved wording to the proposal, record the version and obtain the required internal approval before sending it to the customer.
Prompt
Draft suitable terms and conditions for the UK sales proposal below. Treat this as a working commercial draft, not professional advice. Do not invent facts, promises, policies, legal rights or industry requirements. Use only the information supplied. If a necessary point is missing, write [NEEDS DECISION] and explain what decision is required. First, list the commercial assumptions you found. Then draft concise terms covering, where relevant: the parties, scope and deliverables, customer responsibilities, price and VAT treatment, invoicing and payment, timing and acceptance, changes to scope, cancellation and termination, confidentiality, intellectual property, data protection, warranties, limitation of liability, force majeure, complaints, governing law and jurisdiction. Do not include a clause unless the supplied facts support it. Make clear which terms are already stated in the proposal and which are new suggested wording. Use plain British English and numbering that can be pasted into the proposal. Highlight any clause that needs confirmation against our existing contract or company policy. End with a red-flag checklist for a UK solicitor to review, including any issue where the wording could conflict with consumer law, data protection law, sector rules or an existing master services agreement. Proposal: [PASTE THE FULL PROPOSAL] Commercial details and policies: [PASTE SCOPE, PRICES, PAYMENT RULES, DELIVERY ASSUMPTIONS, CANCELLATION POLICY, LIABILITY POLICY, DATA HANDLING, IP POSITION, GOVERNING LAW AND ANY EXISTING STANDARD TERMS]
Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.
What it gets wrong
- AI cannot decide how much liability your business should accept or which commercial risk is worth taking.
- AI cannot know whether the draft conflicts with a negotiated master services agreement, an old quotation or an internal approval rule unless you provide and compare those documents.
- AI cannot reliably establish whether consumer law, sector regulation or the specific facts make a clause unsuitable.
- AI cannot transfer responsibility for the terms to itself; your business carries the consequences of what it sends.
- AI cannot replace a solicitor's judgement on enforceability, unusual risks or a dispute that is already developing.
What caps this at PARTLY: legal accountability, verification cost and judgement under ambiguity.
How we scored this
Five axes, each scored nought to two by hand: ten means AI carries the task cleanly, and the thresholds that turn a total into YES, PARTLY or NO are published in the methodology. Each axis name links to its definition.
| Axis | Score (0–2) |
|---|---|
| Output | 2 |
| Inputs | 2 |
| Verification | 1 |
| Liability | 0 |
| Effort delta | 2 |
| Total | 7 / 10 |
The methodology and its thresholds are published in full.
FAQ
- Can ChatGPT add terms and conditions to my sales proposal?
- Partly. It can draft and organise terms from your proposal, policies and commercial decisions, but it cannot confirm that the wording is suitable or enforceable for your transaction. This is not professional advice, and a serious or unusual contract should go to a solicitor.
- What terms should I include in a UK sales proposal?
- Common areas include scope, deliverables, price and VAT, payment, timing, customer responsibilities, changes, cancellation, intellectual property, confidentiality, data protection, warranties, liability, complaints and governing law. The right terms depend on the deal, your existing contract documents and whether the customer is a business or consumer.
- Can AI write legally binding terms and conditions?
- AI can produce wording that you may choose to include in a contract, but it cannot guarantee that the wording is binding, complete or suitable. Your business remains accountable for the document, so ask a solicitor to check material or high-risk terms before sending them.
- How do I check AI-written terms and conditions?
- Compare every clause with the proposal, your current standard terms, pricing and company policies, then check for missing decisions and contradictions. A solicitor or contract specialist should review enforceability, liability, data protection, consumer law and conflicts with an existing customer agreement.
Nearby answers
Assessed by gpt-5.6-luna (gpt-5.6-luna) on 2026-08-13, second-checked by an independent model. Wrong somewhere? Email [email protected] and it gets re-checked.
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