As of 13 August 2026, AI can only partly summarise a long contract for your UK business.

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 1 hour until you can act on the result.

   How to actually do it

   1. Open the complete contract and gather every schedule, annex, appendix, amendment, side letter and referenced document.
   2. Check that the files are readable and that you are permitted to share them with the AI service; remove unnecessary personal or commercially sensitive information where appropriate.
   3. Paste or upload the contract in full, then add a short description of your business, your role in the contract and the decisions the summary needs to support.
   4. Run the copyable prompt and ask the model to process the document in sections if the file is too large to handle at once.
   5. Compare every material point in the summary with the cited clause or page in the original contract, including dates, amounts, notice periods, liability wording and renewal terms.
   6. Make a separate list of missing documents, unclear provisions and questions, then send the original contract and that list to a UK solicitor before signing or relying on a high-stakes interpretation.

   Prompt

   Summarise the contract below for my UK business. This is a reading aid, not a legal opinion.
   
   Contract: [paste the contract or upload the complete file]
   Business context: [briefly describe my business, role in the contract and what matters most]
   
   Use only the contract and context provided. Do not invent facts, definitions, obligations, dates or risks. First state whether the document appears complete, including schedules, annexes, appendices and amendments. If anything is missing, unreadable or inconsistent, list it clearly.
   
   Produce:
   1. A plain-English executive summary.
   2. The parties, purpose, term, renewal mechanism and governing law.
   3. A table of each party's key obligations, with the exact section or page reference.
   4. Payment terms, price changes, tax wording, invoicing requirements and late-payment consequences.
   5. Delivery, acceptance, service levels, warranties and support obligations.
   6. Confidentiality, data protection, intellectual property and use-of-materials terms.
   7. Liability caps, exclusions, indemnities, insurance requirements and guarantees.
   8. Termination rights, notice periods, post-termination duties and dispute resolution.
   9. A separate list of provisions that could be commercially important or need clarification, quoting the relevant wording and explaining why without giving legal advice.
   10. A list of questions to take to a UK solicitor.
   
   Mark every statement as either directly stated, an inference, or unclear. Give a section or page reference for every material point. Do not say that a clause is enforceable, unlawful, standard or safe. End with the five points I should verify against the original document before relying on this summary.

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