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YES

As of 13 August 2026, AI can rewrite your UK business terms in plain English.

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 ita professional

What the alternative costsA solicitor remains the alternative when the rewrite could change legal effect; no price is stated in the supplied sources.

If this goes wrong: a supposedly clearer clause changes your rights or obligations and your business publishes terms it did not intend to accept.

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 30 minutes until you can act on the result.

    How to actually do it

    1. Open the current approved version of your business terms and copy the complete text, including headings, definitions, exclusions, liability clauses and governing-law wording.
    2. Remove passwords, customer names, addresses, account details and other unnecessary personal or confidential information before pasting the terms into an AI tool.
    3. Paste the prompt and add the intended audience, such as website customers, business clients or suppliers, plus any required house style.
    4. Ask the tool to rewrite the terms clause by clause and to preserve numbering, defined terms, exceptions and legal effect.
    5. Paste the original and rewritten versions into a document with two columns, then compare every clause, definition, exception, limitation and cross-reference for omissions or changed meaning.
    6. Ask the tool to list every place where the rewrite may change legal effect, then check those warnings against the original rather than accepting the explanation as legal analysis.
    7. Send the original and proposed plain-English version to a UK solicitor for review before publishing if the terms cover important liabilities, consumer rights, data protection, intellectual property or disputed obligations.
    8. Update the approved terms in your website or contract system only after the comparison and any solicitor changes are complete, and keep the approved version and review record.

    Prompt

    Rewrite the UK business terms below in clear plain English for [audience]. Preserve the legal meaning, scope, conditions, exceptions, defined terms, rights, remedies, limitations, governing law and ordering of provisions. Do not add, remove or weaken any obligation, right, restriction, liability or protection. Keep the clause numbering and headings where possible, and retain legally necessary terms such as defined terms and statutory references. Do not invent facts, laws, dates, prices or commitments. For each clause, provide: 1) the plain-English rewrite, 2) a short note identifying any wording whose legal effect may be uncertain or could change, and 3) the original clause reference. If a clause cannot be simplified safely, say so and leave it unchanged. Use British English and a neutral business tone. This is an editing exercise, not professional advice. Existing terms: [paste the complete current terms here]. Business context and intended audience: [describe briefly].

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

What it gets wrong

  • AI cannot decide whether a clearer sentence has changed the legal effect of the original.
  • AI cannot reliably resolve an ambiguous definition by knowing what your business intended.
  • AI cannot confirm that the terms comply with the legal rules applying to your particular business, customers and contract.
  • AI cannot take responsibility for publishing an inaccurate or unenforceable version.
  • AI cannot replace a solicitor's review where the terms allocate significant liability or affect regulated rights.

Even on a YES, the friction has a name: legal accountability, verification cost and judgement under ambiguity.

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

FAQ

Can ChatGPT rewrite my terms and conditions in plain English?
Yes, it can produce a useful plain-English rewrite from your existing terms. It cannot guarantee that the legal meaning is unchanged, so compare every clause and use a UK solicitor for important or ambiguous provisions.
Will rewriting my legal terms make them invalid?
Plain English does not automatically make terms invalid, but changing a word, exception or defined term can change their legal effect. Keep the original beside the rewrite and have a solicitor check the version before you publish it.
Can AI simplify a contract without changing its meaning?
It can attempt this and flag wording that may be unsafe to simplify. Only a careful comparison and, where the consequences matter, a solicitor can establish whether the legal meaning has been preserved.
Is it safe to paste my business terms into AI?
Remove personal data, confidential commercial information and unnecessary customer details before using a chatbot, and check the tool's data handling terms. This is not professional advice, and a solicitor should review the rewrite before it is used where the terms carry serious legal or financial consequences.

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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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