As of 13 August 2026, AI can only partly draft a UK consultancy 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 1 hour until you can act on the result.

   How to actually do it

   1. Open a document containing the parties' exact legal names, company numbers, addresses, business locations and the proposed start and end dates.
   2. Gather the statement of work, deliverables, milestones, acceptance criteria, fees, VAT treatment, invoicing dates, expenses and termination arrangements.
   3. Write down who will own work product, what confidential information is involved, whether personal data will be processed, and whether the consultant may subcontract.
   4. Paste the gathered information into the prompt and replace every bracketed slot, leaving [INFORMATION NEEDED] where you genuinely do not know the answer.
   5. Ask the chatbot to produce the agreement, schedule, unresolved-points list and solicitor-check list specified in the prompt.
   6. Compare every party detail, fee, date, deliverable and ownership instruction in the draft against your source documents, then send the checked draft and unresolved points to a UK solicitor before anyone signs.

   Prompt

   Draft a UK consultancy agreement using the information below. This is a working draft, not professional advice. Do not invent facts, legal requirements, dates, fees or rights. If information is missing, insert [INFORMATION NEEDED] and explain why it matters.
   
   Parties:
   - Client legal name and company number: [CLIENT DETAILS]
   - Client address: [CLIENT ADDRESS]
   - Consultant legal name or company name and company number: [CONSULTANT DETAILS]
   - Consultant address: [CONSULTANT ADDRESS]
   
   Commercial terms:
   - Services and deliverables: [SERVICES]
   - Start date and term: [DATES AND TERM]
   - Milestones and acceptance process: [MILESTONES]
   - Fees, VAT treatment and invoicing timetable: [PAYMENT TERMS]
   - Expenses: [EXPENSES]
   - Late payment arrangements: [LATE PAYMENT TERMS]
   - Notice periods and termination rights: [TERMINATION TERMS]
   
   Risk and ownership terms:
   - Confidential information: [CONFIDENTIALITY REQUIREMENTS]
   - Intellectual property created during the engagement: [IP REQUIREMENTS]
   - Personal data processed and each party's role: [DATA PROTECTION DETAILS]
   - Insurance requirements: [INSURANCE]
   - Liability cap and exclusions requested: [LIABILITY TERMS]
   - Restrictions on subcontracting: [SUBCONTRACTING]
   - Governing law and courts: England and Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland: [CHOICE]
   - Any conflicts of interest, exclusivity or non-solicitation requirements: [OTHER REQUIREMENTS]
   
   Produce:
   1. A clearly numbered draft agreement in plain UK English.
   2. A schedule setting out the services and deliverables.
   3. A list of every unresolved point marked [INFORMATION NEEDED].
   4. A separate list of clauses that a UK solicitor should check before signature, especially employment-status risk, intellectual property ownership, data protection, liability, tax, payment and termination.
   5. A short table identifying which facts came from my instructions and which points are assumptions. Do not present assumptions as agreed terms.

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