As of 13 August 2026, AI can only partly check your product's UKCA marking requirements.

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, power-user skill, and roughly 2 hours until you can act on the result.

   How to actually do it

   1. Open the relevant product-safety and marking guidance on GOV.UK, then record whether the product will be placed on the Great Britain market, the Northern Ireland market, or both.
   2. Gather the product specification, intended use, risk assessment, drawings, test reports, user instructions, existing labels, supplier declarations and any current technical file.
   3. Paste the product facts and document list into the prompt, replacing each bracketed slot and removing any confidential personal data that is not needed.
   4. Ask the model to produce the source-linked table and to separate confirmed requirements from assumptions, missing facts and questions for a professional.
   5. Open every cited GOV.UK page and compare its scope, product category, market and current wording with the model's conclusions, recording any mismatch in the checklist.
   6. Ask a UK product-safety or conformity-assessment professional to confirm the legal classification, assessment route and required declaration before you mark or place the product on the market.
   7. Update the technical file and compliance checklist from the confirmed advice, then obtain any required assessment and sign only the declaration that the responsible business is authorised to make.

   Prompt

   Act as a compliance research assistant, not as the person making the compliance decision. Check the UK product-marking requirements for this product using current GOV.UK sources and quote the source title and URL for every material conclusion. Do not rely on memory, uncited summaries or invented legislation, standards, dates or exemptions.
   
   Product information:
   - Product name and model: [insert]
   - What it does and intended use: [insert]
   - Who will use it: [insert]
   - Where it will be placed on the market: [Great Britain, Northern Ireland, or both]
   - New product, substantially modified product, or existing product: [insert]
   - Manufacturer and importer location: [insert]
   - Power source, wireless functions, pressure, machinery, medical, toy, PPE, construction or other regulated features: [insert]
   - Existing labels or marks: [insert]
   - Applicable standards already considered: [insert]
   - Technical documents available: [insert]
   
   Produce a table with these columns: issue, conclusion, evidence from the official source, confidence, and action needed. Cover separately:
   1. Whether UKCA, CE, both, or neither may apply in the stated market, including any Great Britain and Northern Ireland distinction.
   2. The product legislation and product category that may apply, with uncertainty clearly identified.
   3. Whether self-declaration or third-party conformity assessment appears to be required, and what type of body may be involved.
   4. Relevant designated or harmonised standards, without claiming that a standard is mandatory unless the source says so.
   5. Required technical documentation, testing, instructions, declarations and marking information.
   6. The records, dates and checks that are still missing.
   
   End with a short list titled "Questions for a UK compliance professional". Do not tell me that the product is legally compliant, do not draft a declaration for signature, and do not give a final legal conclusion where the facts or official guidance are unclear. This is not professional advice. Flag any point that needs confirmation from a UK product-safety or conformity-assessment professional.

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