--- name: al-566-use-ai-on-a-small-commercial-lease-without-blowing-up-the description: "Pasting an AI's full list of lease 'issues' straight to a landlord can backfire. On Oct 31, 2026, the founder of a commercial real estate firm posted on X about a tenant signing a 1,500 sq ft lease with no broker or lawyer. The tenant fed the landlord's old boilerplate lease to ChatGPT, which produced a long list of issues, and copy-pasted the whole list to the landlord. He wrote that many comments made no sense because the AI didn't know local market norms or that this was a 1,500 sq ft deal, not 150,000; the landlord rejected every comment and questioned whether they still wanted to do the deal, and the tenant didn't understand the changes they were demanding. The fix is to use the AI to understand and rank the lease, not to write your demands. This is not legal advice; for anything significant, talk to a local commercial broker or lawyer. Use when the user wants help with small commercial lease review that keeps the deal alive (legal & compliance) for a small business." --- # Use AI on a small commercial lease without blowing up the deal: have it sort the issues by what actually matters for a deal your size, check market norms with a local pro, and send the landlord only your top few asks Pasting an AI's full list of lease 'issues' straight to a landlord can backfire. On Oct 31, 2026, the founder of a commercial real estate firm posted on X about a tenant signing a 1,500 sq ft lease with no broker or lawyer. The tenant fed the landlord's old boilerplate lease to ChatGPT, which produced a long list of issues, and copy-pasted the whole list to the landlord. He wrote that many comments made no sense because the AI didn't know local market norms or that this was a 1,500 sq ft deal, not 150,000; the landlord rejected every comment and questioned whether they still wanted to do the deal, and the tenant didn't understand the changes they were demanding. The fix is to use the AI to understand and rank the lease, not to write your demands. This is not legal advice; for anything significant, talk to a local commercial broker or lawyer. ## Inputs to collect first Ask the user for anything below that they haven't already given you. Don't guess missing facts. - Retail/office/industrial - City - Term - $/month - Your own material (text, notes or data) ## Instructions Do the task below with the user's inputs in place of each [bracket]. 1. Upload the lease (remove anything you don't need to share) and tell the AI the deal facts: "This is a [1,500] sq ft [retail/office/industrial] lease in [city], [term] years, about [$/month]. I'm a small tenant with no broker. My business needs are: [list]." 2. Ask: "Explain this lease to me in plain English, section by section: what I'm agreeing to pay, what I'm responsible for, and what happens if I need to leave early or the landlord sells." 3. Ask: "Sort every issue into three groups for a deal my size: (A) could seriously hurt my business, (B) worth asking about, (C) normal or too small to raise. For each A and B item, say whether it's commonly negotiated on small leases or not, and say plainly when you're unsure about local norms." 4. Take only the A list (and anything in B you can't explain) to a local commercial broker, lawyer or small business advisor and ask what's normal in your market. 5. Ask the AI: "Draft a short, friendly note to the landlord raising only these [3-5] points, each with one sentence on why it matters to my business and a simple proposed change. No legal jargon, no demands." 6. Make sure you can explain every point you send in your own words; delete any you can't. ## Safety checks (share these with the user) - Check every figure, price and total against your own records before anything is sent, posted or booked. A person approves refunds, discounts, payments and price changes. - Anything legal, tax or compliance-related is a first draft for a qualified person to check. It is not professional advice, and clause references and deadlines must be checked against the source. - Read and edit the draft before it reaches a customer or goes public. If you later automate this prompt, start with "draft and notify me", not "send automatically". - Check names, dates, numbers and any claim against your own source material before you use the answer. AI can misread or invent details. - Say clearly which parts need a person to review or approve before anything is sent, paid, posted or filed. ## About this skill - Works with: ChatGPT, Claude - Based on this real-world example: https://x.com/bavedikian/status/2116345808702328959 - Free prompt from AgentPlaybook Real Estate: https://agentic-library.netlify.app/prompt/al-566-use-ai-on-a-small-commercial-lease-without-blowing-up-the-de/ - To install in an agent that supports Agent Skills, save this file as SKILL.md in a folder with the same name as `name` above (for example in your skills directory). Install steps for Claude.ai, Claude Code, Cursor and Codex: https://agentic-library.netlify.app/skills/