As of 13 August 2026, AI can only partly draft competition terms 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 document containing the competition plan, prize information, entry process, business contact details and the privacy information used for entries.
   2. Check the current competition mechanics, including eligibility, purchase requirements, entry limits, closing arrangements, winner selection and what happens if a winner cannot be contacted.
   3. Paste those facts into the prompt, replacing each bracketed slot and leaving [CONFIRM] where the business has not made a decision.
   4. Paste the generated draft into a working document and compare every business detail against the approved competition plan, prize supplier terms, entry form and privacy notice.
   5. Check the competition format and promotional channels against current GOV.UK guidance and the relevant platform rules, without treating the chatbot's legal explanation as confirmation.
   6. Send the draft, the factual checklist and the solicitor questions to a UK solicitor for review before publishing or opening entries.
   7. Apply the solicitor's amendments, then compare the final terms against the live entry page, form, advertising and privacy notice before launch.

   Prompt

   Draft competition terms for a UK business using only the information below and do not invent any facts. Write a complete working draft with clear headings and plain English, and mark every missing or legally sensitive detail as [CONFIRM]. Do not claim that the terms are legally compliant and do not give a conclusion that a solicitor is unnecessary.
   
   Business name: [BUSINESS NAME]
   Business address and contact details: [DETAILS]
   Competition name and purpose: [DETAILS]
   Who can enter, including age, location, employee and family exclusions: [RULES]
   How to enter and any purchase requirement: [ENTRY METHOD]
   Opening and closing dates and time zone: [DATES AND TIME]
   Entry limits and disqualification rules: [RULES]
   Prize or prizes, approximate description, restrictions and delivery arrangements: [PRIZE DETAILS]
   How the winner is selected, including whether this is a prize draw, judged competition or other format: [METHOD]
   How and when the winner is notified and publicised: [PROCESS]
   What happens if the winner cannot be contacted or does not claim: [PROCESS]
   Cancellation, substitution and amendment rules: [RULES]
   Personal data collected, purposes, retention, sharing and privacy notice: [DATA DETAILS]
   Third-party platforms involved: [PLATFORMS]
   Promotional channels and any platform-specific rules: [CHANNELS]
   
   After the draft, provide a checklist of factual points for me to confirm and a separate list of questions a UK solicitor should review. Keep the draft specific to the supplied information, distinguish a free prize draw from a skill-based competition where relevant, and do not state that any regulator, platform or court has approved it.

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