As of 13 August 2026, AI can summarise your commercial contract.

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 final signed contract, including schedules, order forms, amendments and referenced policies, and save one complete copy.
   2. Gather the commercial context in a short note: your role, the other party, what you are buying or supplying, the decision you need to make, and any particular concern.
   3. Paste the full contract and the context note into a chatbot using the supplied prompt, or upload the document if the tool supports document analysis.
   4. Ask the chatbot to produce the summary with clause references, and ask it to identify any missing schedules, unreadable pages or provisions it cannot interpret.
   5. Compare every date, amount, notice period, obligation and clause reference in the summary against the contract and mark each item as confirmed, wrong or not found.
   6. Send the checked summary and the original contract to a UK solicitor if the agreement has significant financial, liability, intellectual property, data protection or termination consequences.

   Prompt

   Summarise the commercial contract below for a UK business reader. This is for explanation only and is not professional advice.
   
   Contract: [paste the full contract here]
   Business context: [briefly state your role, the transaction, and what decision you need to make]
   
   Produce the result in this order:
   1. Identify the parties, contract date, start date, duration, renewal terms and governing law.
   2. Give a plain-English executive summary in no more than 150 words.
   3. Create a table with each party's main obligations, deadlines, dependencies and remedies, quoting the relevant clause number for every row.
   4. List payment terms, fees, interest, expenses, taxes and price-change rights, quoting the relevant clause numbers.
   5. List termination, suspension, renewal, notice and exit obligations, including notice periods and delivery methods.
   6. List liability caps, exclusions, indemnities, warranties, service levels and insurance requirements.
   7. List confidentiality, intellectual property, data protection, subcontracting, assignment, non-solicitation and dispute-resolution provisions.
   8. Flag clauses that are unusual, internally inconsistent, unclear, commercially one-sided or dependent on information missing from the text.
   9. Separate facts stated in the contract from reasonable inferences. Do not invent missing terms, legal conclusions, market norms or risks.
   10. End with a checklist of questions to take to a UK solicitor.
   
   Use plain British English. Preserve clause references and quote short passages where precision matters. If the document is incomplete, unreadable or ambiguous, say exactly which part prevents a reliable summary.

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