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As of 13 August 2026, AI can only partly appoint a company director at Companies House.

This still needs a person who signs their name to it.

Can you do it?

5 minutesto a draft.

30 minutesto something you’d act on.

Cost, all in£0

Skill neededchat-fluent

Who has to check ityou

What the alternative costsThe supplied tool data gives no price for a solicitor or other filing alternative.

If this goes wrong, Companies House may hold an inaccurate record and the company or its officers may have to correct the filing and deal with the consequences.

What to actually do

  1. Hand it to a person

    The route this page recommends

    A person who owns the outcome does this end to end, worth it when the failure is dear.

  2. Use a tool built for this

    Second choice

  3. Do it yourself

    The distant third

    A chat interface, chat-fluent skill, and roughly 30 minutes until you can act on the result.

    How to actually do it

    1. Open the current GOV.UK guidance for appointing a director and the relevant Companies House online service, and note any required fields, identity checks and submission steps.
    2. Gather the company's registered name and number, the proposed appointment date, the candidate's legal name, former names if relevant, nationality, date of birth, service address and residential address.
    3. Confirm directly with the proposed director that they consent to act and ask them to identify any disqualification, identity or address issue that could affect the appointment.
    4. Paste only the non-sensitive details and the current GOV.UK or Companies House instructions into the prompt, leaving out unnecessary identity documents, passwords and authentication codes.
    5. Compare the model's checklist and drafted field values against the live Companies House service and correct every mismatch or missing field before starting the filing.
    6. Sign in to the Companies House service yourself, complete the appointment, perform the required identity or consent steps, submit it and save the confirmation for the company records.
    7. If the appointment involves disqualification, unusual control changes, disputed consent or uncertainty about eligibility, stop and ask a solicitor to check it before submission.

    Prompt

    I need to appoint a company director in the UK. Prepare a filing checklist and a draft set of field-by-field answers for the Companies House appointment process using only the information below. Do not submit anything, claim that you have accessed Companies House, invent missing details, or give a definitive view on eligibility. Separate confirmed facts, missing information and points that need checking against the current GOV.UK or Companies House guidance. Include the company number, proposed appointment date, director's full legal name, former names if relevant, nationality, date of birth, service address, residential address, consent to act, and any information needed about disqualification, identity verification or people with significant control, but only where applicable and supported by the supplied facts. Flag any personal data that should not be pasted into a chatbot. State clearly what I must check and submit myself. Information: [company details and current Companies House information] [proposed director details] [appointment date] [any relevant changes to control or ownership] [anything unusual about the appointment]. This is not professional advice.

    Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.

What it gets wrong

  • AI cannot access your Companies House account, complete authentication or submit the appointment on your behalf.
  • AI cannot establish from incomplete facts whether the proposed director is eligible or disqualified.
  • AI cannot confirm that the proposed director's consent, identity and address information are genuine.
  • AI does not carry the company's liability for an inaccurate or misleading filing.
  • AI cannot resolve a disputed appointment or an unusual change in control without human legal judgement.

What caps this at PARTLY: legal accountability, private data access 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.

AxisScore (0–2)
Output1
Inputs2
Verification1
Liability0
Effort delta1
Total5 / 10

The methodology and its thresholds are published in full.

FAQ

Can ChatGPT appoint a director at Companies House?
No, it cannot complete the authenticated Companies House appointment for you. It can prepare a checklist and draft field values, but you must check and submit the filing yourself.
What information do I need to appoint a company director?
You generally need the company details, appointment date and the proposed director's required personal and address information, together with any applicable consent or identity information. Check the live Companies House service because the required steps can depend on the appointment, and do not paste unnecessary identity documents into a chatbot.
Is it safe to use AI for a Companies House filing?
It is suitable for organising information and producing a checklist, provided you check every field against the current official guidance. This is not professional advice, and a solicitor should check a serious or unusual case before submission.
Who is responsible if the director appointment is wrong?
The company and its officers remain responsible for the accuracy and consequences of the filing. Using AI does not transfer that responsibility to the model or its provider.

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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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