Ember Console for business coaches: a template whose boxes hold decisions, numbers and owners

A business coaching template in Ember Console starts with your letterhead. Under it sits a box per section of the report, each with a prompt and a test the filled-in text has to pass. Ember Console is in closed beta.

For a business coach the boxes are decisions, figures and owners, and the figures box needs the strictest test: no number the client did not say.

What is a business coaching template?

It is the report you already send a client, split into named boxes, each with its instruction beside it.

What Google returns for the term is two markets in one list. The Coaching Tools Company and simply.coach rank first and second with forms to download, PandaDoc and upcoach hand out documents further down, and Dribbble, ThemeForest and Showit sell website designs.

A document you fill in yourself has nowhere to put a standard, because the coach filling it is the standard. That changes once something else writes the first draft.

Notes are a shaky input. In a 68-comment r/lifecoaching thread, practice ran from a recorded transcript of every session to nothing at all, and one poster wrote: “I don’t take notes in my sessions. What I would miss by not being fully present is not worth it to me.”

What should a business coaching session plan include?

The decisions the client made, the figures the client stated, and who owns each next step. Here is the version I would type in, in my own wording.

Box	Prompt	Test
Decisions	Write what the client decided.	A decision, not an option discussed.
Figures	Record the numbers the client said.	Only figures the client stated. Nothing added up.
Owners	List next steps and who owns each.	An owner and a date the client gave.

Then, in order:

1. Put your letterhead in the template.
2. Make a box for decisions, figures and owners.
3. Write each prompt as a plain sentence, then its test.
4. Let the AI you already use fill the boxes.

That third step is the box system, and a life coach’s version is in Life coaching templates in Ember Console. Ember hands those prompts and the eval system to ChatGPT, Claude or Littlebird, and the AI reworks a box until it passes your standard. That loop is what the landing’s second numbered item calls checking “each result against your own criteria.”

I word the figures test first, because an invented number is what a client writes back about.

What is not stated yet?

Four questions go past the facts I can cite, and both sheets that would answer them are blank.

1. What a test can check: length, wording, the presence of a fact, a rule you typed.
2. What happens when a box fails: how many reworks it gets, and what you see.
3. How many boxes a template starts with, and whether you can add, remove or reorder them.
4. How the letterhead gets set.

So the table above is one you type yourself. The prompt can be rewritten any week, and the test is the column to get right before the first report goes out.

Questions people ask next?

What is a business coaching plan template?

A plan template looks forward and a session template looks back. PandaDoc calls its business coaching template an executive coaching proposal with a marketing plan and a SWOT analysis report. The boxes above record a session that already happened.

Where do the figures in a business coaching report come from?

From the session, and nowhere else. The figures box records what the client stated, and its test rejects anything they did not say. Nothing is computed, and none of this is financial advice.