As of 13 August 2026, AI cannot defend a breach of contract claim.

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 gets you a draft, but you cannot verify it yourself. That is the catch.

   How to actually do it

   1. Open the claim form, particulars of claim, response documents and any court correspondence, and record the court, claim reference, procedural stage and every stated deadline.
   2. Gather the signed contract and amendments, relevant terms, invoices, delivery or performance records, emails, messages, meeting notes and documents showing loss or mitigation.
   3. Remove unnecessary personal data and legally privileged material before pasting anything into a chatbot, then label each document with its date and source.
   4. Paste the documents and facts into the prompt in batches, asking the model to keep a source reference for every factual statement and to list missing evidence instead of filling gaps.
   5. Compare the chronology, quoted clauses, allegations table and deadline list against the original documents, correcting every mismatch and marking each unresolved point.
   6. Send the checked briefing, the original documents and the recorded deadlines to a solicitor, and ask them to confirm the response strategy, evidence preservation and any filing or service required.

   Prompt

   You are helping prepare a solicitor briefing for a UK business facing a breach of contract claim. This is not professional advice and you must not present your analysis as a legal conclusion. Do not invent facts, dates, clauses, deadlines, court rules or case law. If the jurisdiction, contract terms or procedural stage is unclear, say so and list the exact question a solicitor should answer.
   
   Using only the documents and facts I provide, produce:
   1. A neutral chronology with each event linked to its source document.
   2. A table of the claimant's allegations, the evidence supporting or contradicting each allegation, and what remains unknown.
   3. The contract clauses that appear relevant, quoted briefly with document and page references.
   4. Possible factual responses and questions for a solicitor, clearly separated from legal advice or conclusions.
   5. A list of documents and witnesses that may need preserving or locating.
   6. A list of apparent deadlines or procedural actions stated in the documents, marked 'confirm with solicitor' unless directly shown in an official court document.
   7. A concise briefing note for a solicitor, including the claim amount if stated, the commercial objective, and the decisions that need professional advice.
   
   Treat allegations as allegations. Flag inconsistent dates, missing documents, unclear terms, privilege concerns and personal data that should not be pasted into a public chatbot. Do not suggest sending anything to the claimant or court. Ask up to ten targeted questions before drafting if the supplied material is insufficient.
   
   Jurisdiction and court, if known: [insert]
   Procedural stage and any stated deadline: [insert]
   Business objective: [insert]
   Documents and facts: [paste or attach them here]

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