As of 13 August 2026, AI can summarise your obligations in a UK supplier 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 complete supplier agreement, including schedules, order forms, service descriptions, policies and amendments, and save a copy with its version or date.
   2. Remove unnecessary personal or confidential information where possible, then paste or upload the contract and the business context into an AI tool.
   3. Use the supplied prompt and ask the tool to keep exact clause references and to identify any missing incorporated documents.
   4. Read the obligations table and mark each item that applies to your business, adding the person or team responsible for carrying it out.
   5. Compare every deadline, notice method, payment term, service level, renewal provision and termination right in the summary against the cited contract clause and record any mismatch.
   6. Send the contract, the checked summary and the list of ambiguities to a UK solicitor before signing, accepting a material change or relying on a disputed interpretation.

   Prompt

   Summarise the attached UK supplier contract for my business. This is not professional advice. Do not invent, infer or silently resolve anything that the contract does not say.
   
   First, identify the parties, contract date, term, renewal arrangements, governing law and any schedules, policies or documents incorporated by reference. Then produce:
   1. A table of every obligation imposed on my business, with the exact clause reference, action required, responsible party, deadline or trigger, required notice method, and any stated consequence of missing it.
   2. A separate table of the supplier's obligations and the supplier's rights.
   3. A list of payment, pricing, delivery, acceptance, service-level, warranty, insurance, confidentiality, intellectual property, data protection, audit, record-keeping and reporting requirements.
   4. A list of termination, suspension, renewal, change-control, liability, indemnity, dispute-resolution and governing-law provisions.
   5. A calendar of fixed dates and event-triggered deadlines, stating what event starts each period.
   6. A list of ambiguities, conflicting clauses, missing schedules, undefined terms and provisions that need a solicitor's interpretation.
   
   Quote or closely reproduce the relevant wording for each important point and keep clause references. Mark each point as explicit, dependent on another document, or needing interpretation. Distinguish obligations from recommendations. Do not say that a clause is enforceable, invalid or legally compliant unless the contract expressly says so. End with the five most important questions I should ask a UK solicitor.
   
   Business context: [describe my role, the services supplied, and any known deadlines or commercial concerns].

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