[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":116},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-chatgpt-comparison":3},{"id":4,"title":5,"body":6,"cta":96,"date":98,"description":99,"extension":100,"meta":101,"navigation":103,"path":104,"related":105,"seo":106,"seo_title":107,"stem":108,"tags":109,"__hash__":115},"blog\u002Fblog\u002Fchatgpt-comparison.md","You don't need more information. You need the right information.",{"type":7,"value":8,"toc":92},"minimark",[9,13,16,19,22,25,28,35,41,44,47,49,52,58,64,67,69,72,75,78,80,83],[10,11,12],"p",{},"It's a Wednesday evening. You're three days out of a five year tenancy, mid-move, tired. An email arrives from your letting agent. Your landlord is claiming £1,395 from your deposit. Damaged walls across the whole property, electrical sockets, radiators, something unspecified in the kitchen. No invoices. No photos. Just numbers.",[10,14,15],{},"You do what most people do. You open ChatGPT.",[10,17,18],{},"What comes back is accurate. Fair wear and tear, burden of proof, depreciation, deposit schemes. It tells you to ask for evidence, challenge the redecoration claim, raise a formal dispute. Genuinely useful. Also eleven sections long, structured like a legal briefing, ending with \"just say the word.\"",[10,20,21],{},"You needed to know what to do first. You got a research project.",[23,24],"hr",{},[10,26,27],{},"I ran the actual Foxtons deduction letter from December 2025 through both tools.",[10,29,30],{},[31,32],"img",{"alt":33,"src":34},"ChatGPT response to the Foxtons deduction letter","\u002Fimages\u002Fblog\u002Fchatgpt-comparison\u002Fchatgpt-response.png",[10,36,37],{},[31,38],{"alt":39,"src":40},"DepositAdvisor response to the Foxtons deduction letter","\u002Fimages\u002Fblog\u002Fchatgpt-comparison\u002Fdepositadvisor-response.png",[10,42,43],{},"ChatGPT's response is not wrong. But look at the shape of it — the length, the headers, the volume. Then look at DepositAdvisor's: four specific items assessed against adjudication standards, one next step, nothing else.",[10,45,46],{},"The difference is not intelligence. It is design. One is a general assistant. The other is built from TDS and mydeposits adjudication guidance — it knows what a dispute assessor actually looks for when they open a file.",[23,48],{},[10,50,51],{},"I asked one follow-up: they haven't provided any invoices or quotes, just the amounts. Does that matter?",[10,53,54],{},[31,55],{"alt":56,"src":57},"ChatGPT follow-up: no invoices provided","\u002Fimages\u002Fblog\u002Fchatgpt-comparison\u002Fchatgpt-q1.png",[10,59,60],{},[31,61],{"alt":62,"src":63},"DepositAdvisor follow-up: no invoices provided","\u002Fimages\u002Fblog\u002Fchatgpt-comparison\u002Fdepositadvisor-q1.png",[10,65,66],{},"Both answers are good. ChatGPT's is longer and covers the same ground. DepositAdvisor's ends with a specific action rather than an offer to help further. Also visible at the bottom of the ChatGPT screenshot: three messages remaining before a paywall. Mid-dispute, three questions in.",[23,68],{},[10,70,71],{},"Both tools can answer a general question about deposit law. One is a fire hose. One is a surgeon. As the dispute gets more specific — edge cases, depreciation, prescribed information failures, the precise language schemes respond to — a general model starts pattern-matching rather than retrieving. Just enough to matter when it counts.",[10,73,74],{},"Right now, at the free tier, the difference is focus and grounding. Real, and real in the moment that matters.",[10,76,77],{},"As the paid tier ships the comparison stops being close. DepositAdvisor will hold your entire dispute in context — fair figure calculations, evidence assessment, letters drafted to adjudication standards, session memory across your whole case. A general assistant prompted toward a specific problem is not the same as a system built around it.",[23,79],{},[10,81,82],{},"If you have a deduction letter, paste it in. You will have a fairness read and a next step in under a minute.",[10,84,85],{},[86,87,91],"a",{"href":88,"rel":89},"https:\u002F\u002Fdepositadvisor.co.uk",[90],"nofollow","depositadvisor.co.uk",{"title":93,"searchDepth":94,"depth":94,"links":95},"",2,[],{"label":97,"href":88},"Try it on your own letter","2026-04-07","We ran the same tenancy deposit letter through ChatGPT and DepositAdvisor. Here's what came back and why it matters.","md",{"section":102},"deposit-disputes",true,"\u002Fblog\u002Fchatgpt-comparison",null,{"title":5,"description":99},"ChatGPT vs DepositAdvisor: Which Gives Better Tenancy Deposit Advice?","blog\u002Fchatgpt-comparison",[110,111,112,113,114],"chatgpt","comparison","letter-assessment","adjudication","foxtons","UR_2RwW_c8KhBicFJ17McvDgER3l2sb5rpRp0eXAyms",1775381822850]