The none-this-session rule: an Ember Console box for the session where nothing was committed

Not every session ends in a commitment, and a report section told to list them will list something anyway. The fix is to write the empty answer into the section itself. In Ember Console, the session-report builder for coaches I build, that is a line of a box’s prompt and a line of its eval. Ember Console is in closed beta.

A r/ChatGPT thread puts the failure in its own title: an AI meeting summary can get the date right and still invent a deadline nobody agreed to. Your client reads it next week and remembers no such promise.

Do AI meeting notes make up action items?

They can, and nobody has counted how often.

One commenter under a r/ChatGPT thread on confident wrong answers puts it plainly: “No it doesn’t know how to say it doesn’t know, unless it is instructed to.”

So the commitments box prompt says it in three lines.

1. Name what counts: something the client said out loud.
2. Allow one empty answer: no commitment made this session.
3. Quote the client instead of summarising them.

Line two is the none-this-session rule. The other two only shape an answer the AI was always going to give.

What should the commitments eval fail?

Any commitment your client did not say in their own words.

The empty answer passes. A sentence that merely sounds like your client fails, because the test points at the transcript rather than at the writing.

A client who commits in a nod, or in a sentence the recording missed, loses it from the report until you add it back in the dashboard.

The Ember landing page puts it this way: “Get tailored AI output for every section of your template, while Ember learns from your edits and checks each result against your own criteria.”

Every time an AI fills and builds the report it receives all those prompts and the eval system, and reworks each box until it passes the minimum standard you set, which is the box system. The same pair belongs in any section that can honestly be empty, including the homework a client went quiet about instead of refusing.

What is not stated yet?

Four questions about a box are still open, and the answers are mine to publish.

1. What a box is: a name, a prompt, an eval.
2. Whether you can add, remove or reorder the boxes.
3. What an eval may check: length, wording, a fact, a rule.
4. How many reworks a failing box gets, and what you see.

Number four matters most here, because a coach has to tell a section that passed on nothing from one that kept failing and ran out of tries.

Pick the sections that should sometimes be empty, and write the allowance into each one, so your report says nothing happened only when nothing did.

Questions people ask next?

What if nothing was agreed in a coaching session?

Write that the session produced no commitment, and keep the rest of the report. The Translating ADHD podcast argues the learning between sessions matters more than whether an action got done, and a session can be useful and still end empty.

Is there an AI that makes notes for you?

Many. Coursiv’s 2026 comparison lists Fathom, Fireflies, Otter and Granola, and Laxis reported in May 2026 that 75% of professionals use an AI note-taker at work. They write meeting minutes, which is a different document from a coaching report.

Does every box need to allow an empty answer?

Only the boxes that can honestly be empty: commitments, risks, between-session contact. What an eval may check, and so how an allowance gets written, is the third open question above.