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As of 13 August 2026, AI can only partly file a DS01 to close your company.

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 price for a professional DS01 filing is provided in the available sources.

If this goes wrong, the company may be struck off when it should not be, or creditors and other interested parties may object and leave you to resolve the consequences.

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 GOV.UK guidance on striking off or dissolving a limited company and the Companies House DS01 filing page.
    2. Gather the company number, registered name, director details, recent trading information, debts, creditors, legal proceedings and any changes to the company name or registered office.
    3. Paste the prompt into a chatbot and supply those facts, leaving unknown items marked as unknown rather than asking the model to guess.
    4. Compare the chatbot's eligibility checklist and draft field values against the current GOV.UK and Companies House guidance, correcting every company detail from your own records.
    5. Ask a solicitor or accountant to check the application if the company has debts, creditors, employees, disputes, recent trading activity or any unresolved tax or filing obligations.
    6. Complete and submit the official DS01 through the Companies House route yourself, then keep the submitted details and proof of filing with the company records.
    7. Send any required notices to the people or organisations identified by the official guidance and monitor Companies House for objections or further action.

    Prompt

    I want to close a UK limited company using form DS01. Help me prepare, but do not file anything and do not present this as legal advice. Ask me only for the information needed to assess the Companies House process, including the company number, whether the company is still trading, whether it has debts or creditors, whether it has recently changed its name, and whether there are legal proceedings or other unresolved obligations. Then produce: 1) a plain checklist of facts and documents I need to confirm, 2) the current official GOV.UK and Companies House pages I should read, 3) a field-by-field draft of the information I may need to enter, clearly marking anything you cannot determine, 4) a list of people or organisations that may need to receive notice, and 5) reasons I should stop and ask a solicitor or accountant before applying. Do not guess, invent company details, or tell me that the company is eligible unless the relevant official criteria have been checked. State clearly that I remain responsible for the application and its consequences.

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

What it gets wrong

  • AI cannot authenticate you or accept legal responsibility for the DS01 submission.
  • AI cannot establish from a short description whether the company satisfies every strike-off condition.
  • AI cannot know about undisclosed debts, creditors, disputes or obligations in your company records.
  • AI cannot deal with objections or resolve the consequences of an application that should not have been made.
  • AI cannot replace a solicitor or accountant when the company has unresolved legal, tax or financial affairs.

What caps this at PARTLY: legal accountability, judgement under ambiguity and stakes of error.

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.

AxisScore (0–2)
Output1
Inputs1
Verification1
Liability0
Effort delta1
Total4 / 10

The methodology and its thresholds are published in full.

FAQ

Can ChatGPT file a DS01 for me?
No, a chatbot cannot take responsibility for filing a DS01 in your company’s name. It can help prepare a checklist and draft the information, but you remain responsible for checking the conditions and completing the official Companies House filing.
Can I use AI to close my limited company?
Partly. AI can explain the process and organise the information you need, but it cannot confirm all the facts that determine whether voluntary strike-off is appropriate or deal with debts, creditors and objections.
What do I need before filing a DS01?
You need the company details and the facts needed to check the current Companies House strike-off conditions, including trading activity, debts, creditors and unresolved proceedings. Check the official GOV.UK guidance rather than relying on an AI summary.
Should I ask a solicitor before filing a DS01?
Yes, if the company has debts, creditors, employees, disputes, recent trading activity or unresolved tax and filing obligations. This is not professional advice, and a solicitor should carry out the legal check in a serious or uncertain case.

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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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