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NO

As of 13 August 2026, AI cannot file your Companies House confirmation statement.

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

Can you do it?

5 minutesto a draft.

n/ait cannot be self-verified.

Cost, all in£0

Skill neededchat-fluent

Who has to check ita professional

What the alternative costsThe listed commercial tools do not provide a price for a Companies House filing service.

If this goes wrong, your company submits inaccurate information or misses a filing requirement while the directors retain the consequences.

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 gets you a draft, but you cannot verify it yourself. That is the catch.

    How to actually do it

    1. Open the official GOV.UK guidance for Companies House confirmation statements and the online filing service, without entering any information yet.
    2. Gather the company's current Companies House record, previous confirmation statement, register of members, share capital information, director and secretary records, registered office details and people with significant control records.
    3. Paste those records into the prompt and ask the chatbot to produce the comparison table, missing-information list and submission checklist.
    4. Compare every value in the chatbot's table with the company's own registers and the current Companies House record, correcting the working list rather than accepting an inference.
    5. Ask a company solicitor or accountant about any inconsistency, ownership issue or uncertainty that the chatbot flagged as requiring professional review.
    6. Sign in to the official Companies House online filing service, enter the confirmed information yourself, compare the onscreen answers with the checked working list, and submit only when they match.
    7. Save the Companies House submission confirmation and a copy of the information submitted with the company's compliance records.

    Prompt

    I need to prepare a UK Companies House confirmation statement for [COMPANY NAME] and I will submit it myself through the official Companies House service. Use only the company information and records I provide below. Do not invent, infer or estimate any facts. Make a table with: the information required, the value I supplied, the source record, anything missing or inconsistent, and the exact check I should make before submission. Identify details that may have changed since the last confirmation statement, including registered office details, directors, secretary, people with significant control, shareholders, share capital and trading information where relevant. Do not decide legal questions for me and do not say that the statement is compliant. Flag anything that needs checking with a UK company solicitor or accountant. End with a short submission checklist and a list of questions I must answer in the official Companies House service. Company records: [PASTE RECORDS HERE]. Previous confirmation statement or Companies House record: [PASTE DETAILS HERE].

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

What it gets wrong

  • AI cannot authenticate into your Companies House account or take responsibility for the submission.
  • AI cannot know whether your internal registers are complete, current or legally maintained.
  • AI cannot resolve an ownership, share capital or people-with-significant-control issue from incomplete records.
  • AI cannot make the director's legal responsibility for the filing disappear.
  • AI cannot replace a company solicitor or accountant where the records conflict or the position is unclear.

What makes this a NO: legal accountability, verification cost 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.

AxisScore (0–2)
Output1
Inputs1
Verification0
Liability0
Effort delta1
Total3 / 10

The methodology and its thresholds are published in full.

FAQ

Can ChatGPT file a Companies House confirmation statement?
No. It can organise your records and prepare a checklist, but it cannot submit through your Companies House account. You or an accountable person must enter and approve the filing, and the directors retain responsibility for its accuracy.
What can AI do for a Companies House confirmation statement?
It can compare the information you provide with the previous statement, identify missing records and produce questions for the official filing service. It cannot confirm that the information is legally complete, especially where ownership or control records are unclear.
Do I need an accountant to file a confirmation statement?
You can submit the statement yourself if you have checked the company's records and understand the information being filed. If records conflict, ownership has changed or you are unsure about a legal requirement, ask a company solicitor or accountant rather than relying on AI.
Is it safe to use AI for my Companies House filing?
It is suitable for organising information, not for making the final compliance decision. Check every answer against the company's records and the official GOV.UK service, and get professional help for a serious or unclear issue. This is not professional advice.

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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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