As of 13 August 2026, AI can only partly spot legal risks in a contract.

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 2 hours until you can act on the result.

   How to actually do it

   1. Open the complete contract and save an unaltered copy, including schedules, appendices, incorporated terms and any documents the contract refers to.
   2. Write down the business context, your role in the deal, the counterparty, the intended jurisdiction, the commercial value, your key priorities and any clause you already distrust.
   3. Paste the complete contract and that context into a chatbot using the prompt, and ask it to cite every issue to a clause, page or quoted passage.
   4. Compare each quotation in the output with the saved contract, correcting any missed text, wrong clause reference or invented provision.
   5. Check factual points such as the stated governing law, payment dates, renewal period and termination notice against the contract and the current GOV.UK guidance relevant to your business.
   6. Send the corrected risk table and the original contract to a UK solicitor, asking them to confirm which risks matter, what wording should change and whether the contract is suitable to sign.

   Prompt

   You are helping me prepare a first-pass contract risk list for a UK business, not giving legal advice. Review the contract below and do not invent terms, facts or risks that are not supported by the text. First state the apparent governing law and jurisdiction, if the contract says them. Then produce a table with these columns: clause or page reference, quoted wording, issue, why it may matter to the business, questions or missing facts, severity as low, medium or high, and whether a solicitor should review it. Check specifically for unclear definitions, scope and deliverables, payment and price changes, renewal, termination, liability caps and exclusions, indemnities, warranties, intellectual property, confidentiality, data protection, subcontracting, service levels, restrictions, dispute resolution, governing law, insurance, change control, audit rights and obligations that survive termination. Distinguish a drafting ambiguity from a possible legal or commercial risk. Flag conflicts between clauses and terms that are one-sided, unusually broad or missing. Do not conclude that a clause is enforceable or unenforceable. End with the ten most important questions I should take to a UK solicitor. Business context: [brief description of the business and its role in the deal]. Contract type and counterparty: [description]. Commercial priorities and concerns: [list]. Applicable UK jurisdiction, if known: [England and Wales, Scotland, or Northern Ireland]. Contract text: [paste the complete contract here].

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