As of 13 August 2026, AI can only partly review a business contract before signing it.

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, chat-fluent skill, and roughly 2 hours until you can act on the result.

   How to actually do it

   1. Open the complete contract, including schedules, appendices, definitions and documents incorporated by reference, and save a copy with the version and date visible.
   2. Gather the agreed commercial points, your role in the deal, the other party's role, the country within the UK involved and any deadline for signing.
   3. Paste the prompt into an AI chat and upload the complete contract, then provide the gathered information in the bracketed fields without adding confidential personal data that the review does not need.
   4. Ask the model to produce the clause table and check that every material concern has an exact quotation and a clause or page reference in the uploaded document.
   5. Compare each quotation, deadline and summary against the contract itself, and mark any statement that is an interpretation rather than text found in the document.
   6. Send the contract, the AI issue list and your commercial objectives to a UK solicitor, asking them to confirm the legal effect of the flagged clauses and any amendments before you sign.
   7. Record the solicitor's changes in the final contract, check that the other party accepted the agreed amendments, and sign only the final version that has been reviewed.

   Prompt

   Review the attached business contract for a UK business before I decide whether to sign it. This is not professional advice. Do not tell me that a clause is safe merely because it is common, and do not invent facts, missing wording or legal authorities. First identify the contract type, parties, governing law and key commercial purpose from the document. Then produce a table with: clause number and heading, plain-English meaning, obligation or risk for me, who benefits, key deadline or trigger, what is missing or ambiguous, and a specific question or proposed amendment to raise. Check specifically for payment, renewal, termination, notice, liability caps and exclusions, indemnities, warranties, intellectual property, confidentiality, data protection, non-compete or non-solicitation terms, subcontracting, audit rights, dispute resolution, governing law, insurance and personal guarantees. Quote the exact relevant wording for every material concern and give the page or clause reference. Separate definite text findings from interpretations and unanswered questions. State what you cannot determine from the document. Do not decide whether I should sign. End with a short list of issues that need a UK solicitor to review urgently. My role: [buyer, supplier, employer or other]. My business and the deal: [brief description]. Any agreed commercial points not obvious from the contract: [details]. Country within the UK and governing law if known: [England and Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland or unknown].

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