As of 13 August 2026, AI can only partly check your sales proposal for legal risks.
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 ita professional
What the alternative costsNo comparable solicitor price is provided in the available sources.
If this goes wrong: you send a proposal containing an unintended promise or unsuitable term, and the customer relies on it before the issue is discovered.
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 30 minutes until you can act on the result.
How to actually do it
- Open the current proposal, the standard customer contract, the latest price list and your internal approval rules.
- Gather the customer type, delivery location, governing jurisdiction, product or service description, promised outcomes, pricing, renewal terms and any regulated-sector requirements.
- Remove unnecessary personal data and confidential information, then paste the business context, approval rules and relevant contract terms into the prompt.
- Paste the complete proposal into the prompt and ask the chatbot to produce the separated risk review with quoted wording, priority labels and neutral rewrites.
- Compare every factual flag against the current price list, delivery plan, contract and approval rules, and correct any proposal wording that does not match them.
- Send the high-priority points, proposed rewrites and the complete proposal to your solicitor or internal legal team before sending when the deal involves unusual liability, data, intellectual property, regulated services or material value.
- Apply only approved changes, obtain the required internal sign-off, and send the final proposal from the controlled version.
Prompt
Review the sales proposal below for preliminary legal and commercial risk flags under the law of [England and Wales, Scotland, or Northern Ireland]. This is not professional advice. Do not decide that the proposal is legally safe, do not invent missing facts, and do not cite cases or legislation unless you can identify the exact source and explain why it applies. Separate your response into: 1. factual inconsistencies or unclear wording, 2. promises about performance, results, delivery, service levels or suitability, 3. pricing, payment, renewal, cancellation, refunds and liability points, 4. intellectual property, confidentiality, data protection and use of customer material, 5. missing assumptions, exclusions or acceptance terms, 6. wording that could conflict with our standard contract, and 7. points that need review by a UK solicitor. For every flag, quote the relevant wording, explain the practical risk in plain English, state what information is missing, suggest a neutral rewrite that does not create a new promise, and label the issue low, medium or high priority. Check the proposal against the business context and approval rules below, but do not treat them as legally correct without verification. End with a short send-or-escalate checklist. Business context: [describe the product or service, customer type, delivery model, jurisdiction and any regulated sector]. Approval rules: [paste internal rules or say none]. Standard contract terms: [paste relevant terms or say none]. Sales proposal: [paste the complete proposal].
Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.
What it gets wrong
- AI cannot give you a reliable conclusion that the proposal complies with the law or your existing contract.
- AI cannot know whether an unusual promise is commercially acceptable for your business without your approval rules and risk appetite.
- AI cannot replace a solicitor's judgement on liability, data protection, intellectual property, regulated activity or enforceability.
- AI can miss a risk that depends on facts outside the proposal, such as prior discussions, industry practice or the customer's procurement terms.
What caps this at PARTLY: legal accountability, regulated advice and verification cost.
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 | 1 |
| Inputs | 2 |
| Verification | 1 |
| Liability | 1 |
| Effort delta | 2 |
| Total | 7 / 10 |
The methodology and its thresholds are published in full.
FAQ
- Can ChatGPT check my sales proposal for legal risks?
- Partly. It can flag unclear promises, contradictions, missing terms and wording that deserves legal review, but it cannot confirm that the proposal is legally safe. This is not professional advice, and a serious or unusual case needs a UK solicitor.
- Is it safe to use AI to review a business proposal?
- It is suitable for a preliminary checklist if you remove unnecessary personal and confidential data and verify the output. Do not rely on it as the final legal review, because you remain responsible for the promises and terms you send.
- What legal risks should I check in a sales proposal?
- Check promises about results, delivery and suitability, as well as pricing, payment, renewal, cancellation, refunds, liability, intellectual property, confidentiality and data protection. Also compare the proposal with your standard contract and escalate unusual or high-risk points to a solicitor.
- Can AI rewrite risky clauses in my proposal?
- It can suggest clearer, more neutral wording for a human to assess. A rewrite can still change your obligations or create a new promise, so have the final wording checked by your legal team or a solicitor before sending.
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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