As of 13 August 2026, AI cannot identify the limitation deadline for your business claim.

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 a working document and write a short description of the dispute, the other party, the contract or transaction, and the remedy your business may seek.
   2. Gather the signed contract and amendments, invoices, delivery records, payment records, complaints, settlement discussions, acknowledgements, relevant emails and any court or arbitration documents.
   3. Create a chronology from those documents, recording the exact date where shown and labelling each uncertain date as approximate rather than guessing.
   4. Paste the chronology, the relevant contract clauses and the key correspondence into an AI tool with the supplied prompt, removing unnecessary personal data and confidential information.
   5. Compare the AI's proposed causes of action and possible deadlines against the original documents, checking every date, governing-law clause, notice clause, acknowledgement and part-payment reference.
   6. Send the chronology, documents and the AI's list of unanswered questions to a UK disputes solicitor and ask them to confirm the applicable deadline and any immediate protective step.

   Prompt

   You are helping me prepare questions for a UK solicitor, not giving legal advice. Analyse the business dispute information below and produce a provisional limitation-deadline checklist. Do not state a single deadline as certain.
   
   First, identify the possible causes of action and the jurisdiction and governing law shown by the documents. Distinguish limitation periods from contractual notice deadlines, claim-form deadlines, arbitration deadlines and any pre-action requirements. Build a dated chronology using only facts I provide, marking each date as exact, approximate or unknown. For each possible cause of action, set out the event that might start time running, the possible deadline calculation, the assumptions, and the facts or documents that could change it. Consider whether the documents mention acknowledgement of liability, part-payment, extensions, standstill agreements, concealment, fraud, continuing breaches, a later date of knowledge, or another reason the calculation may differ. Flag every missing fact that could materially change the result. Do not invent a limitation period, date, case authority or procedural rule. If current law or a source is needed, say exactly what a solicitor must confirm. End with a short list of urgent questions to send to a UK disputes solicitor and a preservation list for relevant evidence.
   
   Business and dispute details:
   [Business type and your role]
   [Other party and its location]
   [Jurisdiction and governing-law clause, if known]
   [Type of claim and what happened]
   [Relevant dates, with exact or approximate labels]
   [Contract, invoice, payment and correspondence details]
   [Any acknowledgement, part-payment, extension, standstill or settlement discussion]
   [Any court, arbitration or pre-action action already taken]
   [Documents pasted or attached]

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