As of 13 August 2026, AI can only partly draft a UK service 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 blank document and gather the agreed proposal, order form, emails, price list, scope of work, payment terms and any existing terms you want the agreement to reflect.
   2. Fill in every relevant slot in the prompt with the legal names, addresses, services, fees, dates, responsibilities, intellectual property position, personal data arrangements, termination terms and governing law.
   3. Paste the completed prompt into a chatbot and ask it to produce the agreement, the [TO CONFIRM] list and the plain-English clause explanations as separate sections.
   4. Compare the draft against your proposal, emails and price list, checking every name, amount, date, deliverable, payment deadline and liability position for exact agreement.
   5. Check the personal data provisions against the actual data flows, and open GOV.UK guidance on contracts and data protection to identify any missing statutory or regulatory requirements.
   6. Send the draft and the chatbot's unresolved-questions list to a UK solicitor, asking them to check enforceability, liability, intellectual property, termination, jurisdiction and any data processing terms before signing.
   7. Apply the solicitor's amendments, obtain written approval from the other party, and have both parties sign and retain the final version with its schedules.

   Prompt

   Draft a plain-English UK service agreement for the following arrangement.
   
   Business providing the service: [legal name, company number if applicable, registered address]
   Client: [legal name, company number if applicable, address]
   Services and deliverables: [describe exactly what will be provided]
   Start date: [date]
   Term and renewal: [fixed term or ongoing, renewal rules]
   Fees and VAT: [amounts, VAT treatment, invoicing schedule and payment deadline]
   Expenses: [whether expenses are allowed and how they are approved]
   Client responsibilities: [information, access, approvals or materials the client must provide]
   Changes to scope: [how variations are requested, priced and approved]
   Acceptance and service standards: [acceptance process, milestones, response times or service levels]
   Intellectual property: [who owns pre-existing materials and newly created work, and what licence is granted]
   Confidentiality: [information that must remain confidential and permitted disclosures]
   Personal data: [whether either party processes personal data for the other, and any required data processing arrangements]
   Subcontracting: [whether subcontracting is allowed]
   Warranties and remedies: [any specific promises, correction period or refund arrangement]
   Liability: [any agreed exclusions or limits, if known]
   Insurance: [required cover, if any]
   Termination: [notice periods, termination for breach and what happens on termination]
   Disputes and governing law: [preferred process and UK jurisdiction]
   Other commercial points: [anything else agreed]
   
   Use England and Wales law unless I state otherwise. Do not invent facts, legal requirements, dates, limits or business terms. Mark every missing decision as [TO CONFIRM]. Separate the draft from a schedule of unresolved questions and assumptions. Explain in plain English what each important clause does and identify clauses that need a UK solicitor to check. Do not describe this as legal advice and do not claim that the agreement is suitable to sign without professional review.

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