As of 13 August 2026, AI can check reviews of a UK supplier.

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

Can you do it?

5 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 costsA human procurement review is the alternative; no price is stated in the supplied tool data.

If this goes wrong: you accept a supplier with hidden delivery, quality or support problems and absorb the resulting disruption or cost.

What to actually do

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.
Use a tool built for this
Second choice

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

Write down the supplier's exact trading name, website, product or service needed, order value, delivery location and the supplier risks that matter to your business.
Open the supplier's website and independent review pages, then copy their links and paste the relevant review text into the prompt.
Paste the complete prompt into a chatbot and ask it to assess only the supplied or accessible sources.
Open every source link named in the response and compare the cited claims, dates and review counts with the original pages.
Record unresolved complaints and ask the supplier directly about delivery failures, quality issues, refunds, insurance, guarantees and references from comparable customers.
Use a small trial order or another proportionate check before committing to a larger order, and save the review evidence and supplier replies with your procurement records.

Prompt

Check the public reviews for this UK supplier: [SUPPLIER NAME].

Use these review links and pasted extracts as your source material:
[PASTE LINKS OR REVIEW TEXT]

I am considering the supplier for [PRODUCT OR SERVICE]. The issues that matter most are [DELIVERY, QUALITY, RELIABILITY, RETURNS, SUPPORT, PRICE OR OTHER CRITERIA].

Produce a concise supplier-review assessment with:
1. The sources used, including the source name and link where available.
2. The apparent date or recency of each source where stated. Do not invent dates.
3. The main positive and negative themes, with the number of supporting reviews only when the supplied material supports counting them.
4. Specific complaints or praise about delivery, product quality, communication, refunds and after-sales support.
5. Any conflicting accounts, suspicious patterns, duplicated wording or signs that the evidence may be incomplete or unrepresentative.
6. A distinction between what the reviews directly say and what you infer.
7. Questions I should ask the supplier before ordering.
8. A cautious conclusion about whether the evidence supports further checks, a trial order or avoiding the supplier. Do not present this as proof that the supplier is trustworthy or fraudulent.

Do not invent reviews, ratings, dates, company facts or counts. Do not treat a review score as representative without explaining the limitation. If you cannot access a link, say so and use only the material I supplied.

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

What it gets wrong

Cannot establish that online reviewers are genuine, independent or representative of the supplier's normal performance.
Cannot see private complaints, failed orders or informal references that were never published online.
Cannot know whether a recurring complaint matters to your exact product, delivery route or contract terms without your judgement.
Cannot confirm that a review page, rating or supplier response is still current unless you open and check the source.
Cannot take responsibility for the supplier choice or recover losses when the assessment is wrong.

Even on a YES, the friction has a name: real time truth, verification cost and judgement under ambiguity.

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	2
Inputs	2
Verification	1
Liability	1
Effort delta	2
Total	8 / 10

The methodology and its thresholds are published in full.

FAQ

Can AI check if a supplier is trustworthy?: AI can organise public reviews and identify repeated praise, complaints and gaps in the evidence. It cannot prove that reviews are genuine or guarantee that the supplier will perform well for your business.
Can ChatGPT read supplier reviews?: It can analyse review text and, where browsing is available, inspect public links. Give it the links or pasted text, require source citations and check every important claim against the original pages.
How do I use AI to compare supplier reviews?: Give the model the same review material for each supplier and specify the criteria that matter, such as delivery, quality, returns and support. Ask it to separate direct evidence from inference and to flag missing or conflicting evidence.
Should I choose a supplier based on AI review analysis?: No decision should rest on the summary alone. Use it to target questions, references and a trial order, then make the decision from checked evidence, contract terms and the risks your business can accept.

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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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