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As of 13 August 2026, AI can review your tenancy agreement.

This still needs a person who signs their name to it.

Can you do it?

5 minutesto a draft.

30 minutesto something you’d act on.

Cost, all in£0

Skill neededchat-fluent

Who has to check ityou

What the alternative costsNo comparable professional alternative price is provided in the available tool data.

If this goes wrong: you misunderstand a rent, deposit, repair or ending clause and suffer a financial or housing problem before discovering the mistake.

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 30 minutes until you can act on the result.

    How to actually do it

    1. Open the tenancy agreement and make a copy that removes bank details, signatures, identity numbers and other personal information that the review does not need.
    2. Keep the page breaks and clause numbers in the copy, then paste it into ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini with the prompt above.
    3. Ask the model to produce the summary, tables, clause references and questions in the requested order, and to mark any missing or unreadable pages.
    4. Compare every listed rent, date, deposit term, fee and responsibility with the original agreement, checking the cited page and clause rather than relying on the summary.
    5. Open the relevant current guidance on GOV.UK and check the flagged legal points against it, without treating the model's interpretation as a ruling.
    6. Send the landlord or agent the unresolved factual questions, and take a serious dispute, suspected unfair term or threatened eviction to a solicitor or qualified housing adviser before signing or acting.

    Prompt

    Review the UK tenancy agreement below as an information-organising exercise, not as a substitute for legal advice. Do not invent missing terms or assume facts that are not in the document. First give me a plain-English summary of the agreement. Then create tables for: the parties and property, rent and other payments, deposit terms, tenancy dates, notice and ending provisions, repairs and maintenance, access by the landlord or agent, utilities and council tax, cleaning and garden duties, restrictions, pets, subletting, guests, alterations, and penalties or fees. For every point, quote or closely identify the relevant clause and page number where available. Flag wording that is unclear, unusually broad, internally inconsistent, or potentially important under current law, but do not state that a clause is lawful or unlawful unless you can support that conclusion with a current UK source. Separate what the contract says from what needs checking against current GOV.UK guidance. Finish with a short list of questions I should ask the landlord or agent before signing. Agreement: [PASTE THE AGREEMENT HERE]

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

What it gets wrong

  • AI cannot reliably decide whether a particular term is lawful or enforceable in the facts of your case.
  • AI cannot inspect the property to compare the agreement with its actual condition, inventory or promised repairs.
  • AI cannot know whether the landlord, agent or tenancy circumstances have changed since the document was drafted.
  • AI cannot take responsibility for signing the agreement or for the consequences of relying on its interpretation.
  • The model may miss a scanned clause, table, handwritten change or definition that changes the meaning of the agreement.

Even on a YES, the friction has a name: legal accountability, verification cost 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.

AxisScore (0–2)
Output2
Inputs2
Verification1
Liability1
Effort delta2
Total8 / 10

The methodology and its thresholds are published in full.

FAQ

Can ChatGPT check my tenancy agreement?
Yes, it can summarise the agreement, extract your obligations and flag clauses that need checking. It is not professional advice, and a serious dispute or threatened eviction needs a solicitor or qualified housing adviser.
Can AI tell me if my tenancy agreement is legal?
Not reliably. AI can identify clauses that may matter and point you towards current GOV.UK guidance, but deciding whether a term is lawful or enforceable can depend on facts outside the document.
Is it safe to upload my tenancy agreement to AI?
Only upload a copy with unnecessary personal data removed, including signatures, bank details and identity numbers. Check the service's privacy settings and do not upload information that is not needed for the review.
What should I check in a tenancy agreement?
Check the rent, deposit, dates, notice and ending provisions, repair duties, access rights, extra fees, utilities, restrictions and any inventory or promised works. Compare each point with the original wording and current GOV.UK guidance, and get professional help for a serious disagreement.

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Assessed by gpt-5.6-luna (gpt-5.6-luna) on 2026-08-13, second-checked by an independent model. Wrong somewhere? Email [email protected] and it gets re-checked.

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