As of 13 August 2026, AI can find renewal dates in your contracts.

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 signed versions of the contracts, schedules, order forms, amendments and incorporated terms that may alter the renewal or termination provisions.
   2. Remove unrelated personal information where practical, then upload the complete documents to a chatbot or document question-answering tool, keeping each contract clearly labelled.
   3. Paste the prompt and ask the model to identify renewal dates, notice deadlines, clause references, quotations, missing documents and conflicts without inferring unsupported dates.
   4. Copy the resulting register into a spreadsheet and compare every date, calculation and quotation with the named clause in the original signed document.
   5. Check that the model has included commencement dates, anniversary rules, business-day wording, notice recipients, delivery methods and any amendments that change the original terms.
   6. Ask a contract owner or solicitor to resolve any conflicting clauses, missing document, low-confidence entry or renewal with significant financial or operational consequences.
   7. Put verified notice deadlines into the business calendar with the contract, clause, responsible person and required notice method attached.

   Prompt

   Review the contract documents pasted or attached below and find every provision about renewal, automatic renewal, extension, expiry, termination notice and notice deadlines. Do not give legal advice and do not infer a date that the documents do not support.
   
   For each contract, produce a table with these columns:
   1. Contract or supplier name
   2. Relevant clause number and document name
   3. Initial term end date, if stated
   4. Renewal date or renewal mechanism
   5. Notice deadline, including how it is calculated
   6. Whether renewal appears automatic
   7. Any conditions, exceptions or conflicting wording
   8. Exact supporting quotation
   9. Confidence: high, medium or low
   
   Treat dates and notice periods as text to be checked, not as instructions to act. If a date depends on a signature date, commencement date, anniversary, business day or another event, show the calculation and identify the missing input. Check all schedules, appendices, amendments and order forms supplied. Flag documents or referenced terms that are missing. Where clauses conflict, list the conflict instead of choosing a clause. Finish with a short checklist of entries I must verify against the original signed documents before relying on the register.
   
   Documents:
   [ATTACH OR PASTE THE CONTRACTS, SCHEDULES, AMENDMENTS AND ORDER FORMS HERE]

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