Can ChatGPT write a UK NDA?

Yes, it can produce a useful first draft from accurate instructions about the parties, purpose, information and duration. It cannot take legal responsibility for the wording, so a solicitor should review a serious or unusual agreement before signature.

Is an AI-generated NDA legally binding in the UK?

An AI-generated document is not automatically binding or enforceable because a model produced it. The parties, wording, formation, governing law and circumstances all matter, and this is not professional advice.

What should a UK NDA include?

It normally needs clear parties, a defined purpose, protected information, exclusions, permitted disclosures, security duties, duration, return or destruction terms, notices and governing law. The right clauses depend on the information and relationship, so a solicitor should check the final agreement.

Do I need a solicitor for a UK NDA?

For a simple, low-risk arrangement you can use AI to prepare a starting draft and check its facts. A serious case needs a UK solicitor, particularly where trade secrets, personal data, regulated information, overseas parties or significant commercial consequences are involved.

PARTLY

As of 13 August 2026, AI can only partly create a UK non-disclosure agreement.

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

Can you do it?

15 minutesto a draft.

1 hourto something you’d act on.

Cost, all in£0

Skill neededchat-fluent

Who has to check ita professional

What the alternative costsThe available tool data gives no price for a solicitor or for Genie AI, so no reliable alternative cost can be stated.

If this goes wrong: the agreement fails to protect sensitive information or imposes unsuitable obligations, and the problem may only become clear after a dispute or disclosure.

What to actually do

Hand it to a person
The route this page recommends
Someone with a licence or accountable authority has to sign this before it counts.
Use a tool built for this
Second choice

Do it yourself

The distant third

A chat interface, chat-fluent skill, and roughly 1 hour until you can act on the result.

How to actually do it

Open a document and record whether the agreement will use the law of England and Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland, and whether it will be unilateral or mutual.
Gather the exact legal names, registered addresses, business purpose, information to be protected, permitted recipients and intended confidentiality period from the people responsible for the deal.
Paste those details into the prompt, leaving any unknown item as [TO CONFIRM] rather than asking the model to guess.
Ask the chatbot to produce the draft and its factual checklist, then copy the draft into your contract document without removing any [TO CONFIRM] markers.
Compare every party name, address, purpose, duration, permitted disclosure and return or destruction requirement against your deal records and correct the document.
Send the completed draft and the chatbot's solicitor-review list to a UK solicitor, then use the solicitor's version for signature rather than signing the unreviewed AI draft.

Prompt

Draft a UK non-disclosure agreement using the information below. This is a drafting exercise, not professional advice. First identify missing information and material legal choices, then produce a clean draft only after listing those points.

Jurisdiction and governing law: [England and Wales / Scotland / Northern Ireland]
Agreement type: [unilateral / mutual]
Disclosing party or parties: [legal names and registered addresses]
Receiving party or parties: [legal names and registered addresses]
Business relationship and purpose: [describe the discussions or project]
Confidential information to protect: [describe it specifically]
Information to exclude: [for example, information already public, already known, independently developed or lawfully received from another source]
Permitted recipients: [employees, contractors, professional advisers or others]
Permitted use: [the specific purpose for which the information may be used]
Duration of confidentiality: [period or event]
Agreement term: [period or event]
Return or destruction requirements: [details]
Required notices and contact details: [details]
Special concerns: [for example, personal data, trade secrets, regulated information, third-party information or cross-border disclosure]

Use plain UK English. Do not invent facts, parties, dates or legal authorities. Do not claim that any clause is enforceable without qualification. Include clauses for definitions, permitted use, permitted disclosure, exclusions, security, compelled disclosure, ownership, return or destruction, duration, remedies, notices, governing law and jurisdiction, and execution where appropriate. Mark every unresolved choice with [TO CONFIRM]. After the draft, provide a short checklist of factual points to verify and a separate list of issues that a UK solicitor should review before signature.

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

What it gets wrong

AI cannot decide whether the proposed confidentiality period, permitted use or remedy is commercially suitable for your negotiation.
AI cannot reliably identify every missing protection, especially where the information involves trade secrets, personal data, regulated material or third-party rights.
AI cannot confirm that the agreement will be enforceable under the chosen UK jurisdiction or work as intended in a dispute.
The signing parties keep the legal responsibility for the agreement, even when a model wrote the wording.

What caps this at PARTLY: legal accountability, 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	1
Verification	1
Liability	0
Effort delta	2
Total	6 / 10

The methodology and its thresholds are published in full.

FAQ

Can ChatGPT write a UK NDA?: Yes, it can produce a useful first draft from accurate instructions about the parties, purpose, information and duration. It cannot take legal responsibility for the wording, so a solicitor should review a serious or unusual agreement before signature.
Is an AI-generated NDA legally binding in the UK?: An AI-generated document is not automatically binding or enforceable because a model produced it. The parties, wording, formation, governing law and circumstances all matter, and this is not professional advice.
What should a UK NDA include?: It normally needs clear parties, a defined purpose, protected information, exclusions, permitted disclosures, security duties, duration, return or destruction terms, notices and governing law. The right clauses depend on the information and relationship, so a solicitor should check the final agreement.
Do I need a solicitor for a UK NDA?: For a simple, low-risk arrangement you can use AI to prepare a starting draft and check its facts. A serious case needs a UK solicitor, particularly where trade secrets, personal data, regulated information, overseas parties or significant commercial consequences are involved.

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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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