As of 13 August 2026, AI can only partly draft a freelancer 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. Open a blank document and gather the business and freelancer's legal names and addresses, the services, deliverables, start date, term, fees, payment dates, expenses, VAT position and termination terms.
   2. Add the intended intellectual property ownership, confidentiality requirements, personal-data handling, subcontracting rules, insurance requirements and any liability limit to the information list.
   3. Paste the completed information and the copyable prompt into a chatbot, then save the draft, assumptions, unresolved questions and risk list it produces.
   4. Compare every party detail, date, rate, deliverable, payment term and commercial choice in the draft against your own records and amend the agreement where the chatbot marked [TO CONFIRM].
   5. Open GOV.UK guidance relevant to employment status, tax and data protection, and use it to identify issues the draft has flagged without treating the chatbot's explanation as a legal conclusion.
   6. Send the draft and the chatbot's risk list to a UK solicitor, specifically asking them to check status or IR35 exposure, intellectual property ownership, data protection, liability, termination and enforceability before anyone signs.
   7. Incorporate the solicitor's amendments, send the final version to the freelancer for agreement, and keep the signed copy with the contract records.

   Prompt

   Draft a UK freelancer agreement from the information below. This is a drafting exercise, not professional advice. Use plain English and make the document practical for signing, but do not claim that any clause guarantees a legal outcome.
   
   Business: [legal name, company number if applicable, registered address]
   Freelancer: [full legal name or business name, address]
   Services and deliverables: [detailed description]
   Start date and term: [dates or project duration]
   Fees, expenses and VAT: [rates, payment dates, late-payment terms, expense rules and VAT position]
   Working arrangements: [hours, location, equipment, reporting and acceptance process]
   Intellectual property: [what the freelancer creates, when rights should transfer, and any permitted reuse]
   Confidentiality and data: [confidential information, personal data processed, security requirements and deletion or return arrangements]
   Subcontracting: [allowed or not, and any approval requirement]
   Termination: [notice periods and immediate termination events]
   Insurance and liability: [known requirements or limits]
   Disputes and governing law: [preferred position]
   Other requirements: [any relevant policies, restrictions or commercial terms]
   
   Instructions:
   1. Draft the agreement using only the facts supplied. Mark missing information as [TO CONFIRM] and list every assumption separately.
   2. Include clear clauses for the parties, services, deliverables, fees, expenses, VAT, payment, changes, confidentiality, data protection, intellectual property, subcontracting, independent contractor status, tax and National Insurance responsibilities, insurance, liability, termination, notices, disputes and governing law.
   3. Do not state that the agreement determines employment or tax status by wording alone. Flag facts that could affect employment status, worker status or IR35 and explain that they need specialist review.
   4. Distinguish between clauses that are normally commercial choices and clauses where enforceability or compliance depends on the facts.
   5. Produce a signing-ready draft followed by a short schedule of unresolved questions and a clause-by-clause risk list. Do not invent legislation, case law, dates, rates or obligations.
   6. State clearly which parts should be checked by a UK solicitor before signing.

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