As of 13 August 2026, AI cannot dispute a commercial rent arrears 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, letter before action or court papers and record the claim reference, parties, amount claimed and every stated deadline in a separate note.
   2. Gather the signed lease, variations, rent deposit or guarantee documents, rent schedule, landlord statements and relevant correspondence, then redact unnecessary personal data before uploading them.
   3. Export payment evidence from the business bank account and label each payment with its date, amount, reference and the rent period it was meant to cover.
   4. Paste the supplied prompt into an AI tool and attach the documents in groups, asking it to identify which source supports each figure and quotation.
   5. Compare the AI reconciliation table line by line with the lease, landlord account and bank evidence, correcting every unsupported date, amount or quotation.
   6. Put unresolved questions and any deadline into a short note, then send the case file, source documents and corrected table to a UK commercial property solicitor before taking a substantive step.

   Prompt

   I run a UK business disputing a commercial rent arrears claim. Help me prepare a factual case file and a draft briefing for a solicitor, not legal advice and not a final court document.
   
   Use only the documents and facts I provide. Do not invent facts, dates, figures, clauses, procedural steps or legal authorities. If something is missing, contradictory or unclear, label it as an unresolved question. Do not decide whether I have a valid defence, tell me to ignore a deadline, or present a legal conclusion as certain.
   
   Documents and information:
   - Claim, letter before action or court papers: [paste or summarise, with personal data redacted]
   - Lease and variations: [paste or attach]
   - Rent deposit, guarantee or side-letter documents: [paste or attach]
   - Rent schedule and landlord account: [paste or attach]
   - Bank statements or payment confirmations: [paste or attach]
   - Repairs, disrepair, service-charge or other correspondence: [paste or attach]
   - Relevant dates and events: [list]
   - What the landlord says is owed: [amount and calculation]
   - What the business accepts, disputes or cannot confirm: [details]
   - Any stated response or hearing deadline: [date and source]
   
   Produce:
   1. A document index showing the source of each important fact.
   2. A chronological timeline with a source beside every entry.
   3. A reconciliation table comparing the landlord's calculation with payments and the business's position. Do not fill gaps with estimates.
   4. A list of factual inconsistencies, missing documents and questions for the landlord or solicitor.
   5. A neutral draft solicitor briefing in plain UK English, separating confirmed facts, disputed facts and questions.
   6. A short list of urgent actions to confirm with a UK commercial property solicitor, including any deadline shown in the papers.
   
   Quote important lease wording and claim wording exactly, with the document and page reference where available. Keep legal analysis to questions for the solicitor. Start by listing what you could not verify from the supplied material.

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