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PARTLY

As of 13 August 2026, AI can only partly check a customer's business credit score.

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

Can you do it?

15 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 UK business credit reference check.

If this goes wrong, you may offer credit to a business that cannot pay or wrongly refuse a sound customer, while the liability remains with your business.

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 your UK business credit reference provider's account and obtain the current report for the customer's exact legal name and Companies House company number.
    2. Save the report and record its provider, report date, score scale, risk band, payment history, county court judgments or other adverse entries, and stated credit recommendation.
    3. Remove unrelated personal information, then paste the report into a chatbot using the prompt and attach the report if the service supports document upload.
    4. Compare the chatbot's extracted facts line by line with the original report, including the company identity, score, dates, payment history and adverse entries.
    5. Check flagged disputes or inconsistencies with the credit reference agency and the customer before relying on them.
    6. Set the credit limit and payment terms using your own credit policy, record the evidence and decision, and send the customer only the information your business is entitled to disclose.

    Prompt

    Help me assess the attached UK business credit report for a customer. Do not claim to have accessed any external database, and do not invent or estimate a score, rating, payment history, limit or recommendation. First identify the report provider, report date, company name, company number, score, score scale and any stated risk band. Then list the evidence for and against granting trade credit, separating facts copied from the report from your interpretation. Flag missing, contradictory, disputed or outdated information and explain what I should verify with the credit reference agency. Do not make the final credit decision. If no report is attached, say that you cannot check the customer's score and list the exact information I need to obtain. Customer and report details: [paste report or details here]. Our proposed credit limit and payment terms: [paste here].

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

What it gets wrong

  • AI cannot log into a private credit reference account or retrieve a current business score without the report or an authorised data connection.
  • AI cannot tell whether the report belongs to the correct UK legal entity when names, trading names or group companies are confused.
  • AI cannot resolve disputed judgments, late payment records or identity errors with the credit reference agency.
  • AI cannot decide how much credit your business should offer or carry the loss if the customer does not pay.
  • AI cannot replace your data protection checks when handling a customer's financial information.

What caps this at PARTLY: private data access, verification cost and stakes of error.

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
Inputs1
Verification1
Liability1
Effort delta1
Total5 / 10

The methodology and its thresholds are published in full.

FAQ

Can ChatGPT check a company's credit score?
Not directly. It can analyse a business credit report that you obtain and paste or upload, but it cannot independently access a private UK credit reference database.
What information do I need to check a customer's business credit score?
Obtain the customer's exact legal name, Companies House company number and a current business credit report from an authorised credit reference provider. Check the report date, score scale, payment history and any adverse entries before using it.
Can AI decide whether I should give a customer credit?
AI can organise the evidence and point out missing or contradictory information, but it should not make the final decision. Apply your own credit policy and remain responsible for the credit limit and payment terms.
Can AI spot errors in a business credit report?
It can flag mismatched company details, unusual entries and contradictions within the report. You must confirm any suspected error with the credit reference agency and the customer before acting on it.

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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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