As of 13 August 2026, AI can only partly set up utilities in a new home.

What to actually do

1. Use a tool built for this

   The route this page recommends

2. Do it yourself

   Second choice

   A chat interface, no skill needed, and roughly 30 minutes until you can act on the result.

   How to actually do it

   1. Open your tenancy agreement or completion paperwork and record the address, move-in date, key-collection date and any instruction about existing electricity, gas, water or broadband providers.
   2. Photograph each accessible meter on the day you take possession, including the reading, meter number and timestamp, and keep the photographs with the moving documents.
   3. Gather the current supplier names, previous bills if available, your contact details and the bank details you intend to use, but do not paste bank details or account passwords into the chatbot.
   4. Paste the gathered non-sensitive information into the prompt and ask the chatbot to produce the dated utility table and contact scripts.
   5. Open each supplier's official website, compare the chatbot's suggested checks with the supplier's current account-opening, tariff and broadband information, and correct the table where the official source differs.
   6. Contact each provider yourself, give the move-in date and meter readings, confirm the account start date and terms, then save every confirmation email, reference number and agreed direct debit detail.

   Prompt

   I am moving into a home in the UK and need a practical utility setup plan. Use only the information I provide and clearly mark anything that must be checked with the supplier or an official UK source. Do not invent suppliers, tariffs, prices, meter readings, account numbers, deadlines or contract terms.
   
   Home address: [full address]
   Move-in date: [date]
   Tenancy or purchase completion date, if different: [date or not applicable]
   Electricity meter type and opening reading: [details or unknown]
   Gas meter type and opening reading: [details or unknown]
   Current electricity supplier, if known: [supplier or unknown]
   Current gas supplier, if known: [supplier or unknown]
   Water and sewerage details, if known: [supplier or unknown]
   Broadband requirements: [speed, start date and any known restrictions]
   People in the home: [number of adults and children, if relevant]
   Preferences: [price, contract length, renewable energy, bundled services or other priorities]
   
   Create:
   1. A dated sequence of actions for electricity, gas, water and broadband, separating actions for the move-in day from actions before and after it.
   2. A list of the exact information and documents I need for each provider.
   3. A short script for contacting each existing supplier and a separate script for contacting a new supplier.
   4. Questions I should ask before agreeing to a tariff or broadband contract.
   5. A table with columns for provider, service, action, information still needed, official source to check, confirmation received and next step.
   6. A final checklist of what I must personally submit, confirm or record.
   
   Tell me which parts cannot be completed until I have the keys or a meter reading. Tell me to check current information on the supplier's own website and GOV.UK, and do not recommend a provider unless I give you current provider information to compare.

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

3. Hand it to a person

   The distant third

   A person who owns the outcome does this end to end, worth it when the failure is dear.