As of 13 August 2026, AI can only partly draft a contractor agreement for your UK business.

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 1 hour until you can act on the result.

   How to actually do it

   1. Choose the governing jurisdiction by confirming whether the business and agreement are in England and Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland.
   2. Gather the business and contractor legal names, addresses, company details, service description, start date, payment terms, notice period and working arrangements.
   3. Decide the commercial protections you actually want for confidentiality, intellectual property, data protection, insurance, substitution, expenses, liability and termination, without asking the chatbot to choose them for you.
   4. Paste the collected information into the prompt and ask the chatbot to produce the draft, the schedule of services and its missing-information list.
   5. Compare every name, rate, date, deliverable, notice period and payment term in the draft against your records and correct any mismatch in the source information.
   6. Open current GOV.UK guidance on employment status and review the draft's contractor assumptions, then ask a solicitor to check status, IR35, intellectual property, data protection, liability and enforceability.
   7. Send the solicitor-approved version to the contractor, record both parties' agreed changes and obtain signatures only after the final terms match the work arrangement.

   Prompt

   Draft a UK contractor agreement using only the facts I provide below. The business is based in [England and Wales, Scotland, or Northern Ireland], and the agreement will be governed by the law of [jurisdiction].
   
   Business details:
   - Legal name: [business legal name]
   - Registered address: [address]
   - Company number, if applicable: [number]
   
   Contractor details:
   - Legal name or business name: [contractor name]
   - Address: [address]
   - Company or tax details, if applicable: [details]
   
   Commercial terms:
   - Services and deliverables: [description]
   - Start date: [date]
   - End date or notice period: [details]
   - Fees and VAT treatment: [details]
   - Invoicing and payment terms: [details]
   - Expenses: [details]
   - Working location and equipment: [details]
   - Expected availability and deadlines: [details]
   
   Agreed protections:
   - Confidentiality: [requirements]
   - Intellectual property ownership or licence: [requirements]
   - Data protection and personal data access: [requirements]
   - Insurance: [requirements]
   - Substitution or use of assistants: [requirements]
   - Conflicts of interest and other clients: [requirements]
   - Termination and handover: [requirements]
   - Dispute process: [requirements]
   
   Produce a clear draft with numbered clauses and a schedule of services. Use plain UK English. Do not invent facts, statutory references, case law, rates, dates or obligations. Do not assume that calling someone a contractor makes them self-employed or prevents employment rights. Put [MISSING INFORMATION] wherever a necessary fact is absent, and list those gaps after the draft. Identify clauses that need a solicitor to confirm, especially employment status and IR35, intellectual property, data protection, restraint of trade, liability limits, termination and jurisdiction. State clearly that this is a drafting aid and not professional advice.

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