Claude AI for Contracts & Commercial Managers: 12 High-Value Prompts

Commercial teams spend hours on the same recurring documents. Claude, used well, can compress that work into minutes while preserving contractual rigour. Here are twelve prompts to try this week.

1. Clause simplification

"Explain this FIDIC clause in plain English, list obligations by party, and highlight time-bar risks."

2. Compare two contracts

"Table the differences between these two variation clauses. Flag which is more contractor-friendly and why."

3. Draft a notice of delay

"Draft a Sub-Clause 20.1 notice for the delay event below. Include factual chronology and reserved rights language."

4. Response to Engineer's determination

"Draft a measured response to this Engineer's determination, preserving our position without escalating tone."

5. Risk register from a contract

"Extract every contractual risk from this contract into a register with owner, mitigation and clause reference."

6. Payment application review

"Cross-check this payment application against the BOQ and flag any deviations."

7. Meeting minutes to action log

"Convert these minutes into an action log with owner, due date and dependency."

8. Negotiation preparation

"Suggest three positions I can propose on the LD cap, with justifications drawn from the contract."

9. Change order pricing narrative

"Write a justification paragraph for this change order that ties every cost line to the change scope."

10. Escalation letter

"Draft a firm but professional escalation letter to the Employer regarding overdue payments."

11. Lessons-learned synthesis

"Cluster these lessons-learned entries into themes and propose three process improvements."

12. Executive briefing

"Summarise this claim file into a one-page brief for the commercial director."

Recommended course

Our Claude AI for Contracts & Commercial Managers — 50 Examples course gives you the full 50-prompt library with sample outputs.