---
title: "Summarise a UCC search without preparing the financing statement"
url: "https://ailawframework.com/practice/banking-and-finance/draft-a-ppsr-registration-and-search-summary/united-states"
type: "task_jurisdiction_version"
site: "AI Law Framework"
id: "A3-B7-4-US"
practice_area: "Banking & Finance (Lending, Securities, Project Finance)"
tier: "yellow"
lawyer_review: "required"
jurisdictions: ["US"]
last_reviewed: "2026-10-22"
---

# Summarise a UCC search without preparing the financing statement

> Summarise each search certificate the lawyer supplies: debtor name searched, filing office, file number, secured party and collateral indication. Do not prepare a financing statement.

Canonical page: https://ailawframework.com/practice/banking-and-finance/draft-a-ppsr-registration-and-search-summary/united-states  
Last reviewed: 2026-10-22

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## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Practice area | [Banking & Finance (Lending, Securities, Project Finance)](https://ailawframework.com/practice/banking-and-finance.md) |
| Human involvement | Yellow: Lawyer and AI draft together |
| How AI is used | Summarise each search certificate the lawyer supplies: debtor name searched, filing office, file number, secured party and collateral indication. Do not prepare a financing statement. |
| What the lawyer must review | Read the certificate against U.C.C. § 9-502(a) and § 9-503. The filing is sufficient only if it gives the debtor's name, the secured party's name or a representative, and an indication of the collateral. A search under a trade name can miss a filing indexed under the public-organic-record name of a registered organisation, or under the individual's name the state requires. You decide whether a filing is against this debtor and this collateral. The summary is not itself a filing. |
| Written for | United States |
| Applies to | [Draft a PPSR registration and search summary](https://ailawframework.com/practice/banking-and-finance/draft-a-ppsr-registration-and-search-summary.md) |

## Checking plan

- What the AI does: Summarise each search certificate the lawyer supplies: debtor name searched, filing office, file number, secured party and collateral indication. Do not prepare a financing statement.
- Basis: Checked against the linked sources on 22 October 2026. Confirm the current instrument before reliance.

## Notes

- Do not guess the state's choice of individual-name alternative.
- Fixture, as-extracted and timber filings need the extra details in § 9-502(b). Open that subsection before you rely on a real-property-related hit.

## Sources

- [U.C.C. § 9-502, Contents of financing statement](https://www.law.cornell.edu/ucc/9/9-502) (checked 2026-10-22)
- [U.C.C. § 9-503, Name of debtor and secured party](https://www.law.cornell.edu/ucc/9/9-503) (checked 2026-10-22)
- [ABA Formal Opinion 512, Generative Artificial Intelligence Tools (29 July 2024)](https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/administrative/professional_responsibility/ethics-opinions/aba-formal-opinion-512.pdf) (checked 2026-10-22)

## Forms and precedents for this task

| Form or precedent | Kind | AI level | Summary |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [PPSA amendment demand to remove or amend a PPSR registration (s 178), with escalation steps](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/banking-and-finance/ppsa-amendment-demand.md) | Notice | Yellow | A written amendment demand under s 178 of the PPSA asking a secured party to register a financing change statement ending a registration or omitting collateral, with a covering letter, a diary of… |
| [UCC Article 9 attachment and perfection checklist](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/banking-and-finance/us-ucc-perfection-checklist.md) | Checklist | Yellow | Checklist of attachment and filing questions drawn from the uniform text of UCC §§ 9-203 and 9-310. It does not complete a financing statement. |

Signed-in accounts can read the full text of each one.

*Practice guidance for planning and review. Confirm current primary sources and the requirements of the actual matter. This is general information, not legal advice.*