As of 13 August 2026, AI can only partly draft subscription terms for your UK business.

This still needs a person who signs their name to it.

Can you do it?

5 minutesto a draft.

1 hourto something you’d act on.

Cost, all in£0

Skill neededchat-fluent

Who has to check ita professional

What the alternative costsA purpose-built alternative is Genie AI, a UK-focused AI legal assistant for drafting and reviewing everyday contracts.

If this goes wrong, customers may rely on unclear or unlawful subscription terms and your business may face disputes, refunds or regulatory action.

What to actually do

Hand it to a person
The route this page recommends
Someone with a licence or accountable authority has to sign this before it counts.
Use a tool built for this
Second choice

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

Open your current price list, checkout flow, invoices and refund process, then record the exact subscription prices, VAT treatment, billing intervals, renewal wording and cancellation process.
Gather the service description, customer eligibility rules, trial terms, usage limits, support details, business contact details and any existing privacy notice or related policy.
Paste those details into the prompt, replacing every bracketed slot and deleting any section that does not apply.
Ask the chatbot to produce the draft and its separate list of assumptions, missing facts and solicitor questions.
Compare every commercial statement in the draft against your current website, checkout, price list and customer support process, then correct mismatches in the draft.
Send the corrected draft and the solicitor review list to a UK solicitor before publishing it or linking to it from checkout.

Prompt

Draft subscription terms for my UK business using the information below. Produce a clear, structured first draft in plain English, but do not present it as legally compliant or final. Identify every missing fact, assumption and clause that needs a solicitor's decision.

Business name: [BUSINESS NAME]
Business type and place of establishment: [DETAILS]
What the subscription provides: [SERVICE OR PRODUCT]
Who can buy it: [CONSUMERS, BUSINESSES OR BOTH]
Territories served: [UK COUNTRIES OR OTHER TERRITORIES]
Price, currency and VAT treatment: [DETAILS]
Billing interval and payment method: [DETAILS]
When the subscription starts: [DETAILS]
Automatic renewal process: [DETAILS]
How customers cancel: [DETAILS]
What happens after cancellation: [DETAILS]
Refund and cooling-off approach: [DETAILS]
Minimum term or notice period: [DETAILS]
Free trial or introductory offer: [DETAILS]
Service limits, exclusions and suspension rights: [DETAILS]
Customer support contact and hours: [DETAILS]
Business contact details: [DETAILS]
Existing privacy notice and other policies: [PASTE OR SUMMARISE]

Draft clauses covering the service, eligibility, account use, payment, renewal, cancellation, refunds, changes to the service, suspension, intellectual property, customer content, liability, complaints, governing law and contact details where relevant. Separate consumer-specific issues from business-customer issues. Do not invent facts, statutory rights, regulatory status or deadlines. Mark any clause that may depend on UK consumer law, data protection law or the exact business model. Add a solicitor review list at the end. This is not professional advice.

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

What it gets wrong

AI cannot decide whether your subscription model complies with the UK rules that apply to your specific customers, service and sales process.
AI cannot take responsibility for unlawful renewal, cancellation, refund, liability or consumer-rights wording.
AI cannot infer missing commercial facts without risking terms that contradict your checkout, pricing or actual service.
AI cannot replace a solicitor's judgement on ambiguous clauses, unusual risks or a dispute with a customer.
AI cannot give your business the assurance that comes from professional review of the final terms.

What caps this at PARTLY: legal accountability, judgement under ambiguity and stakes of error.

How we scored this

Five axes, each scored nought to two by hand: ten means AI carries the task cleanly, and the thresholds that turn a total into YES, PARTLY or NO are published in the methodology. Each axis name links to its definition.

Axis	Score (0–2)
Output	2
Inputs	2
Verification	1
Liability	0
Effort delta	2
Total	7 / 10

The methodology and its thresholds are published in full.

FAQ

Can AI write subscription terms for my business?: Yes, it can produce a useful first draft from your pricing, renewal, cancellation, refund and service details. It cannot confirm that the terms comply with the law or take responsibility for them, so have a UK solicitor check the final version.
Are AI-generated subscription terms legally binding?: They are not automatically binding simply because AI drafted them. Whether terms form part of a valid contract depends on how they are presented, accepted and applied, as well as the wording and the customer involved.
What should UK subscription terms include?: They commonly need to explain the service, price, payment, renewal, cancellation, refunds, changes, suspension, liability, complaints and contact details. The correct clauses depend on whether you sell to consumers, businesses or both, so a solicitor should check the draft against your model.
Do I need a solicitor to check AI-written subscription terms?: For terms you intend to publish, solicitor review is the safer route because you remain liable for the result. This is not professional advice, and a serious or unusual subscription model needs a UK solicitor rather than a chatbot alone.

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Assessed by gpt-5.6-luna (gpt-5.6-luna) on 2026-08-13, second-checked by an independent model. Wrong somewhere? Email [email protected] and it gets re-checked.

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