As of 13 August 2026, AI can only partly draft a UK partnership 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 record the business name, activity, address, each partner's legal name and address, and the intended start date.
   2. Gather the partners' written agreement on contributions, profit and loss shares, roles, spending authority, decision rules, drawings, expenses and banking controls.
   3. Agree what should happen on a partner's admission, retirement, death, incapacity or expulsion, and how the business would be valued and wound up.
   4. Paste the completed facts into the prompt and ask the chatbot to produce the assumptions list, draft clauses and final solicitor-check schedule.
   5. Compare every name, date, percentage, contribution, role and approval threshold in the draft against the partners' written decisions, correcting the source facts and regenerating where they conflict.
   6. Send the draft, the facts you supplied and the chatbot's solicitor-check schedule to a UK solicitor, asking them to confirm the partnership structure, enforceability, tax implications and any missing provisions before anyone signs.
   7. Keep the solicitor-approved version in a controlled document, have all partners sign the same version, and record any later amendment in writing.

   Prompt

   Draft a UK partnership agreement for the business described below. This is a working draft for review, not professional advice. Do not present the agreement as ready to sign. First list the important assumptions, missing facts and legal questions that a UK solicitor should check. Then draft the agreement in clear numbered clauses, using plain British English and no invented facts.
   
   Business name: [BUSINESS NAME]
   Business activity: [BUSINESS ACTIVITY]
   Business address: [ADDRESS]
   Partners and addresses: [PARTNER DETAILS]
   Start date: [START DATE]
   Capital or other contributions from each partner: [CONTRIBUTIONS]
   Profit and loss shares: [SHARES]
   Roles and authority to bind the business: [ROLES AND AUTHORITY]
   Banking and spending controls: [BANKING RULES]
   Decisions requiring unanimous approval: [DECISION RULES]
   Drawings, expenses and remuneration: [PAYMENT RULES]
   Accounting records and financial year: [ACCOUNTING RULES]
   Confidentiality and intellectual property arrangements: [CONFIDENTIALITY AND IP]
   Holiday, absence and incapacity arrangements: [ABSENCE RULES]
   Admission, retirement, expulsion and death of a partner: [CHANGE OF PARTNER RULES]
   Dispute resolution: [DISPUTE RULES]
   Dissolution and winding up: [DISSOLUTION RULES]
   Any other agreed terms: [OTHER TERMS]
   
   Use square-bracketed drafting notes wherever information is missing. Include a final schedule listing every defined term, blank, assumption and point requiring solicitor confirmation. Check the draft for contradictions, undefined terms, inconsistent percentages and clauses that appear to conflict with each other. Do not choose governing law, tax treatment, restrictive covenants or other legal positions without identifying the choice and asking for confirmation.

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