As of 13 August 2026, AI cannot check your UK business contract for unfair terms.

What to actually do

1. Hand it to a person

   The route this page recommends

   Someone with a licence or accountable authority has to sign this before it counts.

2. Use a tool built for this

   Second choice

3. Do it yourself

   The distant third

   A chat interface gets you a draft, but you cannot verify it yourself. That is the catch.

   How to actually do it

   1. Open the contract and its schedules, definitions, order forms and incorporated terms, then save a complete copy with confidential personal information redacted where it is not needed.
   2. Record the governing law, the parties, your role, the contract's commercial purpose, any deadline and the terms you expected to negotiate.
   3. Paste the contract and those facts into an AI tool using the supplied prompt, asking it to cite every issue by clause number and quotation.
   4. Compare the AI's clause list against the original contract, including definitions, schedules and linked documents, and remove any issue that is based on text the contract does not contain.
   5. Put the remaining high-impact questions into a short note for a UK solicitor, attaching the complete contract and explaining which terms you may sign, enforce or challenge.
   6. Do not sign, reject or amend the contract solely from the AI output; use the solicitor's advice to decide the negotiation points and final wording.

   Prompt

   Review the UK business contract below for clauses that may be unfair, unreasonable, unusually one-sided or commercially dangerous. Do not present this as legal advice and do not claim that any clause is definitely enforceable or unenforceable.
   
   Use these details:
   - Governing law and jurisdiction: [insert or say unknown]
   - Type of contract and business purpose: [insert]
   - My role: [customer, supplier, contractor, landlord, tenant or other]
   - What I expected to negotiate: [insert]
   - Important commercial facts, including bargaining power, deadlines and dependencies: [insert]
   
   For each issue, provide:
   1. The clause number and a short quotation, using only text in the contract.
   2. What the clause does in plain English.
   3. Why it may be unfair, unusually one-sided, unclear or commercially risky.
   4. Which missing facts could change the assessment.
   5. A practical question or proposed negotiation point for a solicitor to consider.
   6. A severity rating of high, medium or low based on potential business impact, not on a claimed legal conclusion.
   
   Separate clear drafting problems from issues that require legal judgement. Check for hidden renewal, termination, payment, price-change, liability, indemnity, warranty, intellectual property, confidentiality, data protection, audit, variation, exclusivity, non-compete, governing-law and dispute-resolution provisions. Identify definitions and schedules that the main clauses depend on. Do not invent missing clauses, facts, cases, legislation or dates. End with a short list of documents and facts I should give a UK solicitor before asking for a final opinion. Here is the contract:
   
   [PASTE THE CONTRACT HERE]

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