As of 13 August 2026, AI can review your UK small business plan.

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 1 hour until you can act on the result.

   How to actually do it

   1. Open the latest version of your business plan and copy its full text into a working document, keeping headings, tables and assumptions intact.
   2. Gather the current price list, supplier quotes, expected volumes, fixed costs, variable costs, available cash, funding request and cash-flow forecast in one spreadsheet or document.
   3. Collect the evidence behind demand and competition, including customer conversations, survey results, competitor pages and source links, and label estimates separately from observed facts.
   4. Paste the plan, financial material, evidence and constraints into the prompt, replacing each bracketed slot with your own information.
   5. Run the prompt in a chatbot and ask a second pass to check only the arithmetic, duplicated assumptions, missing costs and unsupported factual claims against the material you supplied.
   6. Compare the decision, failure assumptions and suggested tests with your own customer evidence and current figures, correcting any factual error or unsupported conclusion.
   7. Run the proposed tests before committing significant cash, borrowing or staff time, then update the plan and take legal, tax or regulated financial questions to the appropriate professional.

   Prompt

   Review the UK small business plan below as a sceptical commercial adviser. Do not rewrite it into polished prose and do not invent facts, figures, customers, competitors or market evidence. First summarise the business model in your own words. Then assess: customer problem and evidence of demand, target customer, proposition, pricing, route to market, competitors, operations, staffing, legal or regulatory dependencies, cash flow, break-even logic, funding needs, key assumptions and execution risks. Check every calculation you can check from the supplied figures and show the formula when you find an error. Separate facts supplied in the plan from assumptions, unsupported claims and information you need. Identify the three assumptions most likely to cause failure and give a cheap, practical test for each. Give a decision of proceed, revise or stop, but state the conditions that would change that decision. End with a short list of questions I should answer before showing this plan to a lender, investor or business adviser. Treat UK context as important, but do not give legal, tax or regulated financial advice. Flag where I need a solicitor, accountant or regulated adviser.
   
   Business type: [business type]
   Location and trading area: [location]
   Trading structure: [sole trader, partnership or limited company, if decided]
   Stage: [idea, pre-launch or trading]
   Plan:
   [paste the full business plan]
   
   Financial forecast and assumptions:
   [paste the forecast, price list, costs, sales assumptions and funding needs]
   
   Evidence and sources:
   [paste customer research, survey results, supplier quotes, competitor sources and other evidence]
   
   Constraints:
   [paste available cash, time, skills, staff and other constraints]

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