As of 13 August 2026, AI can only partly create a hiring plan for your UK business.

What to actually do

1. 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.

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 a document and gather your business goals, current team structure, uncovered work, available budget, desired timing, working pattern and essential skills.
   2. Paste that information into the prompt, replacing each bracketed slot and deleting any section that does not apply.
   3. Paste the generated plan into a working document and ask the chatbot to separate confirmed facts, assumptions and unanswered questions.
   4. Compare every proposed role and hiring order against your actual workload, cash-flow plan, management capacity and business priorities, then remove roles that do not solve a current problem.
   5. Check every budget item and employment-law flag against your own records and current GOV.UK guidance, and send unresolved contract, equality, payroll or right-to-work questions to an HR adviser or employment solicitor.
   6. Ask a colleague who understands the business to challenge the role order, requirements, decision criteria and risks before you approve the plan.
   7. Update the plan with the confirmed budget, owners and dates, then use the role brief and recruitment stages as the internal plan for advertising and hiring.

   Prompt

   Create a practical hiring plan for my UK business using the information below.
   
   Business: [what the business does, size, location and growth target]
   Current team: [roles, responsibilities and capacity]
   Business problem: [what work is not being covered and why]
   Hiring budget: [available budget and whether it covers salary, employer costs, recruitment and equipment]
   Time horizon: [when the role is needed]
   Work pattern: [location, remote or hybrid arrangement, hours and contract preference]
   Required skills: [essential and desirable skills]
   Constraints: [cash flow, management capacity, existing processes or other limits]
   
   Produce:
   1. The order in which roles should be hired and the reason for that order.
   2. A role brief for each proposed hire, separating essential requirements from desirable ones.
   3. The business problem each role solves and the risks of delaying it.
   4. A realistic recruitment process with stages, owners and decision criteria.
   5. A simple budget checklist, without inventing salary, tax or employer-cost figures. Mark every figure I need to confirm.
   6. A list of assumptions and unanswered questions.
   7. A verification checklist covering UK employment-law, right-to-work, equality, data protection, contract and payroll issues. Do not give legal advice or claim that a requirement applies unless you can identify a current GOV.UK source; instead flag issues for an HR adviser or employment solicitor.
   
   Use plain British English. Do not invent facts about my business, candidates, salary levels or legal requirements. Where information is missing, ask a question or label an assumption. End with the five decisions I must make before advertising any role.

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