As of 13 August 2026, AI can explain an employment contract to a new starter.

What to actually do

1. Hand it to a person

   The route this page recommends

   A person who owns the outcome does this end to end, worth it when the failure is dear.

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 final employment contract and any offer letter, staff handbook or benefits document that the contract incorporates.
   2. Remove unrelated personal data such as home address, bank details, National Insurance number and signatures before copying the documents.
   3. Paste the contract and the relevant supporting documents into a chatbot, then paste the prompt exactly as written.
   4. Ask the chatbot to keep separate lists for what the contract says, what it means in practice, and what it cannot determine from the text.
   5. Compare every explanation of pay, hours, holiday, notice, probation and restrictions with the named clause in the contract.
   6. Send the unanswered questions to HR or the hiring manager and ask for written clarification before accepting or relying on the term.
   7. Take any serious concern about dismissal, pay, discrimination, confidentiality or post-termination restrictions to a UK employment solicitor.

   Prompt

   Explain the following UK employment contract to a new starter in plain English. Use only the contract text and the factual context I provide, and do not invent missing terms. For each section, state what it says, what it means in practical day-to-day terms, and any action or deadline for the employee. Cover pay, working hours, place of work, holiday, sickness, probation, notice, pension, benefits, confidentiality, intellectual property, restrictive covenants, disciplinary rules, termination and any other important clause. Quote or name the relevant section for every explanation. Clearly separate what the contract expressly says from reasonable questions or possible concerns. Flag wording that is ambiguous, unusually restrictive, internally inconsistent or likely to need checking with the employer. Do not decide whether a term is lawful or give legal conclusions. Finish with a short list of questions the new starter should ask HR or their manager, and identify any point that should be reviewed by a UK employment solicitor. Contract text: [PASTE CONTRACT HERE] Job and context, if relevant: [PASTE CONTEXT HERE]

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