As of 13 August 2026, AI can only partly check the restrictive covenants in your employment contract.

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, chat-fluent skill, and roughly 1 hour until you can act on the result.

   How to actually do it

   1. Open the employment contract and make a separate copy with personal identifiers, client names and other unnecessary private information redacted.
   2. Paste the full contract into the chatbot, or paste every section referring to post-termination restrictions, confidentiality, intellectual property, garden leave, notice and termination.
   3. Add your job title, seniority, main duties, access to confidential information, place of work, employment dates, reason for leaving and the proposed new role and location.
   4. Send the copyable prompt and ask the chatbot to quote each relevant clause exactly, with its section number and the limits it identifies.
   5. Compare every quoted passage against the original contract and correct any missed words, definitions, cross-references or schedules before relying on the summary.
   6. Prepare the flagged clauses and factual questions for a UK employment solicitor, especially if you are leaving for a competitor, have received a threat or may already have breached a restriction.
   7. Follow the solicitor's advice and keep the contract, the AI analysis and any employer correspondence together for the matter.

   Prompt

   I need a plain-English review of the restrictive covenants in this UK employment contract. This is not professional advice. Do not decide that a covenant is enforceable or unenforceable. Instead, identify every clause that restricts what I can do after employment ends, including non-compete, non-solicitation, non-dealing, non-poaching, confidentiality, intellectual property and garden-leave provisions. For each clause, quote the exact wording and give its section number, duration, geographic area, people or customers covered, prohibited activities, trigger conditions and any exceptions. Explain how the clauses interact and flag wording that is unclear, unusually broad, internally inconsistent or dependent on facts not provided. List the factual questions a UK employment solicitor would need answered before advising me, including my job duties, seniority, access to clients and confidential information, reason for leaving, proposed new role, location and relevant dates. Separate what the contract says from your interpretation. Do not invent missing terms, case law, dates or legal conclusions. Tell me which passages I should show to a solicitor and what immediate steps might preserve my position without breaching the contract. Contract text: [PASTE THE CONTRACT OR THE RELEVANT CLAUSES HERE]. My role and context: [ADD THESE FACTS, REDACTING PERSONAL IDENTIFIERS].

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