As of 13 August 2026, AI can only partly draft a client services agreement.

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, chat-fluent skill, and roughly 2 hours until you can act on the result.

   How to actually do it

   1. Open a document and write down the client and provider's full legal names, addresses, company numbers where relevant, the service description, deliverables, exclusions and each party's responsibilities.
   2. Gather the agreed price or rate, VAT position, invoice timing, payment deadline, expenses, start date, milestones, contract term, renewal position and termination notice.
   3. Decide what should happen to intellectual property, confidential information, personal data, subcontractors, service delays, liability, insurance, disputes and changes to scope, and mark undecided points as unknown rather than guessing.
   4. Paste the prompt and your gathered information into ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini, then ask it to produce the draft, schedule, confirmation table and solicitor-check list specified in the prompt.
   5. Compare every name, number, price, date, deliverable, payment term and responsibility in the draft against your notes and correct the document itself rather than accepting an AI assumption.
   6. Send the draft and the risk list to a UK solicitor before signing if the work is valuable, involves personal data or intellectual property, has unusual liability, uses subcontractors, or could create employment-status or regulatory issues.
   7. After the solicitor's changes are made, send the final version to the other party for agreement and keep the signed copy with the final service schedule.

   Prompt

   Draft a UK client services agreement from the information below. This is a drafting aid, not professional advice. Do not invent any facts, legal requirements, prices, dates or protections. Use plain English and mark every missing decision as [TO CONFIRM].
   
   Client details:
   [CLIENT LEGAL NAME, COMPANY NUMBER IF RELEVANT, ADDRESS]
   
   Service provider details:
   [PROVIDER LEGAL NAME, COMPANY NUMBER IF RELEVANT, ADDRESS]
   
   Services and deliverables:
   [DESCRIBE THE SERVICES, DELIVERABLES, EXCLUSIONS AND CLIENT RESPONSIBILITIES]
   
   Commercial terms:
   [PRICE OR RATE, VAT POSITION, INVOICING DATES, PAYMENT DEADLINE, EXPENSES, LATE PAYMENT ARRANGEMENTS]
   
   Timing:
   [START DATE, TERM, MILESTONES, RENEWAL TERMS]
   
   Changes and termination:
   [HOW SCOPE CHANGES ARE APPROVED, NOTICE PERIODS, TERMINATION EVENTS]
   
   Other requirements:
   [CONFIDENTIALITY, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OWNERSHIP OR LICENCE, DATA PROTECTION, SUBCONTRACTING, INSURANCE, LIABILITY LIMITS, DISPUTE PROCESS, GOVERNING LAW]
   
   Produce:
   1. A complete draft with numbered clauses and a signature section.
   2. A schedule setting out the services and deliverables.
   3. A table listing each [TO CONFIRM] item and the decision needed.
   4. A separate risk list identifying clauses that need a UK solicitor to check, especially liability limits, intellectual property, data protection, employment-status risks, regulated services and any terms that may be unfair or unenforceable.
   5. Do not state that the agreement is legally suitable, enforceable or compliant without qualification.

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