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As of 13 August 2026, AI can create a UK business price list.
Most people should hand this to a purpose-built tool.
Can you do it?
5 minutesto a draft.
30 minutesto something you’d act on.
Cost, all in£0
Skill needednone
Who has to check ityou
What the alternative costsRows is a spreadsheet with built-in AI analysis and live data connections; no alternative service price is provided in the supplied data.
If this goes wrong: customers see an incorrect price or VAT amount, and your business absorbs the lost margin, correction work or dispute.
What to actually do
Use a tool built for this
The route this page recommends
Do it yourself
Second choiceA chat interface, no skill needed, and roughly 30 minutes until you can act on the result.
How to actually do it
- Open your current price records, quotations, invoices or product catalogue and gather the approved price, unit, duration, VAT treatment, inclusions and exclusions for every item.
- Write down your business name, customer type, VAT status, currency, effective date, payment terms, cancellation terms and contact details.
- Paste the gathered information into the prompt, keeping each product or service on a separate line and marking unknown details as unknown.
- Ask the chatbot to produce the table, questions to resolve and publication checklist required by the prompt.
- Compare every price, unit, VAT entry, inclusion and exclusion in the draft with your source records, and correct any arithmetic or copied wording that does not match.
- Ask a colleague to check that a customer would understand what each price buys, when an extra charge applies and whether any bespoke work is clearly labelled.
- Publish the approved version in your chosen customer-facing format and keep the source records and approval date with it.
Prompt
Create a clear UK business price list from the information below. Business: [business name] Customer type: [consumer, business, or both] VAT status: [VAT registered, not VAT registered, or unknown] Currency: GBP Effective date: [effective date] Services or products: [paste each item with its current price, unit, duration, VAT treatment and any included or excluded work] Requirements: - Use only the facts I provide. Do not invent prices, services, discounts, VAT treatment, delivery charges or terms. - If information is missing or contradictory, list it under "Questions to resolve" rather than guessing. - Produce a clean table with columns for item, description, unit or duration, price excluding VAT, VAT rate, VAT amount, price including VAT, and important conditions where those figures are available. - Keep the wording plain and suitable for UK customers. - Preserve my approved prices exactly and flag any arithmetic that needs checking. - Separate standard prices, optional extras, discounts and bespoke quotes. - Add a short note explaining whether prices include or exclude VAT only if my supplied information supports it. - Give me a final publication checklist covering prices, VAT, units, inclusions, exclusions, minimum charges, cancellation terms, contact details and the effective date. - Do not claim that the price list complies with UK law. Do not give tax or legal advice.
Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.
Hand it to a person
The distant thirdA person who owns the outcome does this end to end, worth it when the failure is dear.
What it gets wrong
- AI cannot decide whether a price is profitable, commercially sensible or positioned correctly against your competitors.
- AI cannot know whether your VAT treatment, exemptions or customer-facing wording is correct without authoritative information and suitable expertise.
- AI cannot identify every hidden cost, minimum charge or operational constraint that your records omit.
- AI cannot take responsibility for an incorrect price list, customer dispute or lost margin.
- AI cannot keep the list current when your costs, offers, services or trading terms change.
Even on a YES, the friction has a name: real time truth, 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.
| Axis | Score (0–2) |
|---|---|
| Output | 2 |
| Inputs | 2 |
| Verification | 1 |
| Liability | 2 |
| Effort delta | 2 |
| Total | 9 / 10 |
The methodology and its thresholds are published in full.
FAQ
- Can ChatGPT make a price list for my business?
- Yes. Give it your approved products or services, prices, units, VAT status and terms, and it can turn them into a structured draft. Check every figure and condition against your records before publishing.
- Can AI calculate VAT on a price list?
- AI can perform the arithmetic when you provide the correct VAT treatment and rate. It cannot safely decide which VAT treatment applies to your goods or services, so verify that separately before using the figures.
- Can AI decide what prices I should charge?
- It can compare options or model scenarios from information you provide, but the pricing decision remains yours. You still need to assess costs, demand, competitors, positioning and the consequences of getting the price wrong.
- Can AI create a price list in a spreadsheet?
- Yes. It can organise the data into spreadsheet-ready columns and calculate totals when the inputs are complete. A spreadsheet tool such as Rows can then help analyse the pricing data, but you still need to check the source figures and publish the approved version.
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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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