As of 13 August 2026, AI can only partly check your UK 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 30 minutes until you can act on the result.

   How to actually do it

   1. Open the contract and redact unnecessary personal data, bank details, signatures, National Insurance numbers and other information that the review does not need.
   2. Write down your UK jurisdiction, job title, proposed start date, pay, working pattern and the particular clauses you are worried about.
   3. Paste the prompt into a chatbot and upload the redacted contract, keeping the complete document available for checking page and clause references.
   4. Ask the chatbot to repeat any clause it cannot read clearly rather than filling in missing words, then compare its summary with the original contract clause by clause.
   5. Check basic employment-rights points against current GOV.UK guidance and mark any issue involving enforceability, dismissal, discrimination, restrictive covenants or deductions for a solicitor.
   6. Send the employer only the factual clarification questions you are comfortable asking, and have a UK employment solicitor review the complete contract before signing if the flagged issue could materially affect your work or finances.

   Prompt

   I am reviewing a UK employment contract for the role of [job title] with [employer name]. I am based in [England, Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland], and my main concerns are [list concerns]. My employment is [current or proposed], and the relevant dates are [start date and any other relevant dates].
   
   Read the attached contract and do not invent facts, terms or legal rules. First, give me a plain-English summary of each important clause, including pay, hours, place of work, holidays, probation, notice, sickness, pension, bonus, deductions, confidentiality, intellectual property, post-termination restrictions, disciplinary procedures, grievance procedures, termination and any collective agreement. For each point, quote a short extract or give the page and clause reference.
   
   Then produce a table with these columns: clause reference, what it says, what is unusual or unclear, practical question to ask the employer, and whether I should ask a UK employment solicitor to review it. Separate factual observations from legal questions. Do not tell me that a term is enforceable or unlawful unless the contract wording and the relevant UK jurisdiction make that conclusion clear. Flag missing terms, internal contradictions, broad employer discretion, unclear calculations and terms that may affect my pay, ability to leave, or ability to work elsewhere. State what information you would need before assessing any flagged issue. End with a short list of questions I can send to the employer. This is document review and issue-spotting, not professional advice.

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