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As of 12 August 2026, AI can only partly review your employment contract.
This still needs a person who signs their name to it.
Can you do it?
5 minutesto a draft.
n/ait cannot be self-verified.
Cost, all in£0
Skill needednone
Who has to check ita professional
What the alternative costsAn employment solicitor commonly reviews a contract for £150 to £400; Acas advice is free.
If this goes wrong: you sign relying on a reassuring reading, and discover what the restrictive covenant actually meant on the day you try to leave.
What to actually do
Hand it to a person
The route this page recommends
Someone with a licence or accountable authority has to sign this before it counts.
Where to find a person today
Acas
The statutory Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service: free employment-relations guidance and a free advice line for workers and employers.
Acas is the statutory, free first stop for employment questions: advice on what a clause means and what to do next, before anyone pays a solicitor.
Law Society Find a Solicitor
The Law Society's official, free public search of solicitors in England and Wales, searchable by legal issue and location.
For a contract with real money or real restrictions in it, an employment solicitor's review is the version of this task where someone is accountable for the answer.
Use a tool built for this
Second choiceDo it yourself
The distant thirdA chat interface gets you a draft, but you cannot verify it yourself. That is the catch.
Prompt
Here is my employment contract. Point me at the clauses that most commonly disadvantage employees, notice, probation, restrictive covenants, pay review, intellectual property, and quote where each appears in mine, in plain English. Then give me the questions to raise with the employer or a solicitor. Do not tell me whether to sign, and flag anything important that seems to be missing.
Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.
What it gets wrong
- It states whether a restrictive covenant is enforceable with confidence, and under English law that answer is fact-specific in ways it cannot know.
- It reviews what is on the page and misses what is not: the absent clause, the missing pay-review mechanism, the silence on remote work.
- Its reassurance is calibrated to the typical contract, and you are not signing the typical contract, you are signing yours.
What caps this at PARTLY: verification cost, judgement under ambiguity and stakes of error.
How we scored this
Five axes, each scored nought to two by hand: ten means AI carries the task cleanly, and the thresholds that turn a total into YES, PARTLY or NO are published in the methodology. Each axis name links to its definition.
| Axis | Score (0–2) |
|---|---|
| Output | 1 |
| Inputs | 2 |
| Verification | 0 |
| Liability | 1 |
| Effort delta | 2 |
| Total | 6 / 10 |
The methodology and its thresholds are published in full.
FAQ
- Can ChatGPT review my employment contract?
- Partly. The answer here is PARTLY. It explains clauses well and turns a dense contract into questions worth asking, which is real value before you sign. What it cannot do is tell you what is enforceable, or notice what your contract is missing, and those are the answers that matter.
- Is it safe to upload my contract to an AI?
- Treat it as sending your contract to a third party, because it is. Remove your name and salary if you can, check what the provider does with uploads, and remember the contract may carry confidentiality terms of its own. A question to a free adviser carries no such risk.
- What should I check before signing a UK employment contract?
- Notice periods on both sides, probation terms, restrictive covenants and how long they run, where intellectual property goes, what triggers a pay review, and anything promised verbally that is not written down. If a clause worries you, Acas advice is free and a solicitor's review commonly costs £150 to £400.
- Is Acas advice really free?
- Yes. Acas is the statutory body for employment relations in Britain and its helpline and website guidance are free to workers and employers alike. It will explain what a clause means and what your options are; it will not review your whole contract line by line, which is a solicitor's job.
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