General AI
Yes, it is generally a taxable supply of service and would attract tax on a notional value.
No citation - may be wrong
AskSolique vs General AI
Why general AI isn't built for work you sign your name to.
General-purpose AI - ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini - is genuinely excellent at a huge range of tasks: drafting, summarizing, brainstorming, coding. This isn't a knock on them. It's about the right tool for a specific job: tax & regulatory work where every answer must trace to Indian law.
The right tool for the job
General AI has no Indian statutory ground truth, so it produces plausible prose with no citation - and will invent a section number with total confidence. It has no cross-domain workflow, no path to a deliverable, and no memory of your firm's prior work. When it's wrong, the firm carries the liability, not the model.
Side by side
| Capability | General AI | AskSolique |
|---|---|---|
| Statutory ground truth | None - trained on the open web | Indian corpus, kept current |
| Citations | Rare, often fabricated | On every claim, traceable |
| Cross-domain reasoning | Not structured for it | GST + FEMA + IT + TP at once |
| Workflow to deliverable | Stops at the chat reply | Research → delivery |
| Personalised knowledge base | Forgets every session | Retained inside your firm |
| Security | Consumer-grade | Enterprise controls |
Same question. Two very different answers.
Is a personal guarantee by a director a supply under GST?
AskSolique
It is a supply, but where given without consideration the taxable value is nil - so no GST is payable.
↳ Circular 204/16/2023-GST
Traceable to source