As of 13 August 2026, AI can extract your obligations from a contract.

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 complete contract, including schedules, appendices, annexes, amendments and referenced policies, and save a copy with its page numbers intact.
   2. Remove unnecessary personal data and identify the party whose duties you need extracted, without changing the contract wording.
   3. Paste the complete text or upload the document to an AI chat, then paste the prompt exactly as written.
   4. Check that the AI has received every page and ask it to identify any missing, unreadable or referenced material before relying on the table.
   5. Compare every listed obligation and quotation with the cited clause and page in the original contract, correcting omissions, wrong party names, deadlines and conditions.
   6. Put the confirmed duties into your calendar and contract-management system, then send the flagged ambiguities, conflicts and high-consequence clauses to a solicitor before acting on them.

   Prompt

   Read the contract below and extract my obligations as the party identified as [MY PARTY NAME]. Do not give legal advice and do not infer duties that are not supported by the wording. Create a table with these columns: obligation, trigger or condition, deadline or frequency, required action, other party involved, consequence or remedy stated in the contract, and exact clause and page reference. Include payment, delivery, performance, reporting, notice, renewal, confidentiality, data protection, intellectual property, insurance, record-keeping, restrictions, termination and post-termination duties where they appear. Separate unconditional duties from duties that apply only if a stated event occurs. Flag unclear wording, defined terms that affect an obligation, missing schedules or referenced documents, conflicts between clauses, and anything that needs a solicitor's review. Quote the relevant wording for every flagged item. Do not calculate legal consequences, decide whether a clause is enforceable, or state that the contract complies with UK law. Finish with a checklist ordered by deadline, then list the questions I should ask a solicitor. State clearly that this is not professional advice.
   
   Contract:
   [PASTE THE COMPLETE CONTRACT HERE]

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