As of 13 August 2026, AI can explain your contract in plain English.

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 30 minutes until you can act on the result.

   How to actually do it

   1. Open the contract in its original form and gather any schedules, appendices, referenced policies and amendments that form part of it.
   2. Write a short note describing your role, the deal, what you expect to provide or receive, and the clauses you are most concerned about.
   3. Paste or attach the complete contract and that context to a chatbot, then send the copyable prompt without removing clause numbers or defined terms.
   4. Ask the chatbot to produce a clause-by-clause table covering obligations, rights, deadlines, payment, termination, liability, confidentiality, intellectual property, data protection and restrictions.
   5. Compare every summary point with the quoted clause and mark any statement that relies on information outside the contract or on an unclear definition.
   6. Ask a UK solicitor to review the marked issues before you sign, reject, amend or rely on the contract, and send them the original contract and the AI question list.

   Prompt

   Explain the contract below in plain English for a UK business reader. Do not give legal advice, decide whether I should sign, or invent facts. Work only from the contract and the context I provide. For each important point: quote or identify the relevant clause, explain what it appears to require or permit, state who is affected, and flag any ambiguity, missing definition, cross-reference, unusual obligation, deadline, renewal term, termination right, payment term, liability limit, indemnity, confidentiality duty, intellectual property term, data protection term, non-compete or other restriction. Separate what the wording clearly says from what depends on facts outside the contract. List questions I should ask the other party and list issues to take to a UK solicitor. Say when the document or context is insufficient to reach a reliable conclusion.
   
   Business context: [brief description of your role, business and intended deal]
   What I am most concerned about: [clauses, risks or questions]
   Contract text or attached document:
   [ paste or attach the contract here ]

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