Modality-specific drafting
Drafted in the conventions of the modality you actually work in.
Session notes, assessment notes, formulation letters, and supervision write-ups, drafted in any one of eight modalities at launch, with the conventions of each modality already loaded into the system prompt so you do not have to teach the tool the difference each time you sit down to write.
A CBT note should not look like an EMDR note pretending.
You should not have to teach a tool that "client" is the default term, that risk has to be recorded in every entry, that defusion is not restructuring, that limited reparenting is not generic warmth, or that EMDR notes need phase and SUDS. Eight modalities ship at launch, and the system prompt knows the difference between them in the same way a supervisor knows the difference between them.
The conventions are not interchangeable, and a generic note that splits the difference fits none of them.
General-purpose AI does not know that a CBT session note has an agenda at the top, that an EMDR note has phase and SUDS, that a CFT note carries three-systems framing throughout, or that an IFS note names parts with both role and felt sense, so it produces a generic note that fits none of them. Cogent has the conventions of each modality baked into the system prompt, which means that when you pick the modality at the start of a note the draft comes back in those conventions with the right structural elements and the terminology used precisely, so that defusion is not restructuring, limited reparenting is not generic warmth, and the EMDR phase is recorded in the place it belongs.
Eight modalities at launch, each preserving the elements the modality actually needs.
You pick the modality at the start of a note, and the draft comes back in those conventions, with the right structural elements and the terminology used precisely throughout.
| Modality | What the draft preserves |
|---|---|
| CBT | Agenda items, cognitions elicited, named techniques, behavioural work, homework review and forward task. |
| EMDR | Phase, target memory, NC and PC, starting and ending SUDS and VOC, BLS modality, channels of association, closure status. |
| CFT | Three-systems focus, self-criticism work, FBRs, compassionate-mind training practices, evolutionary framing. |
| Schema | Schemas activated (from the eighteen EMS), modes, mode work, experiential techniques, healthy-adult observations. |
| ACT | Hexaflex processes in focus, defusion techniques, values clarification, committed action, workability framing. |
| IFS | Parts named with role and felt sense, Self-energy presence, 6 Fs work with protectors, polarisations, blending and unblending, trailheads. |
| Integrative | Theoretical lenses applied, technique sources named, clinical reasoning for the integration. |
| Assessment | Mental-state observations, history calibrated rather than exhaustive, tentatively-framed initial formulation, explicit risk. |
More modalities (CAT, DBT, systemic, psychodynamic) are on the roadmap and prioritised by what users ask for.
The whole spread of clinical writing handled in one place.
- Session notes
Drafted in the conventions of the modality used, with risk explicitly documented even when no active risk is present.
- Assessment notes
Mental-state observations, history calibrated rather than exhaustive, and a tentatively-framed initial formulation that opens the door to the work rather than closing it.
- Formulation letters
Plain-language letters written to the client, in their language, that respect their dignity and the way they describe their own life.
- Supervision summaries
Case-reflection summaries that surface what is worth raising in supervision rather than recapping the diary.
- Pre-supervision briefs
Case snapshot, recent trajectory, current focus, and your questions for the supervisor, all in one document and available on the Professional tier.
Cogent learns the writing you have already done, and works to a sample of the writing you want it to do.
Inside Settings you can upload a short sample of your own writing for sessions, for formulation letters, and for assessment reports, with each sample setting the register, the sentence structure, the vocabulary, and the pace that Cogent aims for in that family of documents. The samples must be de-identified on the browser before they leave it, and Cogent also draws quietly from your most recent accepted drafts in the same family as further exemplars, so that the voice in front of you in each generation is the voice you have already chosen to keep rather than a house style imposed on top of it.
A template you have built for your own population, sitting alongside the eight built-in ones.
If you work with a population that asks for particular framing every time, like under-eighteens, neurodiverse adults, or court-bound reports, you can write a free-text instructions overlay on any of the built-in modality templates and have Cogent treat it as your own template inside the workspace picker. The overlay is general guidance about how a draft for that population should be shaped, rather than client-specific content, and it sits on top of the modality conventions for the underlying doc type so that the structural elements the modality needs are still in place underneath everything you have added.
Try it on this week's work.
The free tier covers ten generations a month with no card to start and no time limit on the trial, so you only upgrade when Cogent has earned at least the cost of a session in time saved.
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