As of 13 August 2026, AI cannot negotiate a business contract for your UK company.

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 latest contract, schedules and the other party's latest email or proposal, and save copies before making changes.
   2. Write down your company's objectives, non-negotiable points, acceptable trade-offs, approval limits and the person authorised to approve the final position.
   3. Gather the commercial facts the negotiation depends on, including prices, delivery commitments, service levels, renewal arrangements, ownership of work, insurance requirements and any personal-data processing.
   4. Paste the relevant contract text and your facts into the prompt, asking the model to quote each clause rather than relying on a summary.
   5. Use the output to create a marked negotiation schedule with one proposed position, one fallback and one internal owner for every disputed term.
   6. Send the contract, negotiation schedule and proposed reply to a UK solicitor for review of liability, indemnities, termination, intellectual property, data protection, dispute resolution and any clause you do not understand.
   7. Only after the authorised person and solicitor have approved the position should you send the response and record the agreed wording in the contract version history.

   Prompt

   Act as a contract-negotiation assistant, not as my solicitor and not as an authorised representative of my company. I am negotiating a UK business contract.
   
   Contract type: [contract type]
   My company: [brief description]
   Other party: [brief description]
   Our objectives, in priority order: [objectives]
   Our non-negotiable points: [points]
   Terms we may trade: [points and limits]
   My authority limit: [what I can accept without approval]
   Commercial and operational facts: [facts]
   Current draft or other party's latest wording:
   [paste the relevant contract or proposal]
   
   Analyse the wording and produce:
   1. A plain-English summary of the obligations, payment terms, termination rights, liability, indemnities, intellectual property, confidentiality, data protection, governing law, disputes and renewal provisions.
   2. A table of negotiation issues with the exact clause, the risk, its priority, my preferred position, an acceptable fallback and the reason.
   3. Questions I must answer internally before replying.
   4. A negotiation plan that protects my priorities without making assumptions about facts not supplied.
   5. A draft response to the other party that is professional, concise and clearly marks every proposed change.
   6. A list of points that require review by a UK solicitor before I accept or sign.
   
   Quote the relevant wording for every legal or commercial concern. Do not invent facts, deadlines, prices, authority, legal rules or concessions. Do not say that a clause is safe, enforceable or compliant unless that has been confirmed by a UK solicitor. Do not accept terms, send messages, or imply that you have authority to bind my company. Separate factual observations from negotiation suggestions.

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