As of 13 August 2026, AI can only partly review a supplier contract for risky terms.

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 supplier contract, including schedules, order forms, incorporated terms and appendices, and save a copy with its version and date.
   2. Gather the commercial context: what the supplier provides, expected spend, delivery dependencies, payment arrangements, existing commitments and terms your business will not accept.
   3. Remove unnecessary personal or confidential information, then paste the full contract and the context into the chatbot using the supplied prompt.
   4. Ask the chatbot to produce the clause table, and check every quoted passage and page reference against the original contract.
   5. Mark each issue that could affect price, supply continuity, liability, termination or data handling, then compare the suggested questions with your internal purchasing and insurance requirements.
   6. Send the original contract, the AI issue table and your marked priorities to a UK commercial contracts solicitor before signing or agreeing material changes.

   Prompt

   Review the supplier contract pasted below for commercial and legal risk from the buyer's perspective. Assume the contract is intended for use in the UK, but do not assume that a particular law or court has jurisdiction unless the contract says so. Do not invent facts, clauses or legal rules. For every issue, quote the exact wording and give the clause or page reference if available. Present the result in a table with these columns: clause or page, exact wording, issue, why it matters to the buyer, severity as low, medium or high, practical question to ask the supplier, and suggested negotiation position. Check specifically for price increases, payment and late-payment terms, minimum orders, delivery obligations, acceptance and inspection, warranties, defective goods, service levels, liability caps and exclusions, indemnities, insurance, intellectual property, confidentiality, data protection, subcontracting, audit rights, exclusivity, auto-renewal, termination, suspension, force majeure, governing law, jurisdiction, dispute resolution and any obligations that survive termination. Distinguish a clear obligation from a possible interpretation. After the table, list missing information and five questions I should take to a UK commercial contracts solicitor. Do not tell me to sign, reject or accept the contract, and state clearly that this is not professional advice. My context: [describe the goods or services, annual spend, business size, operational dependencies, negotiating position and unacceptable risks]. Contract: [paste the complete contract here].

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