The own-eyes template: coaching notes for the coach only, read before the next call

Your next call is tomorrow and the last one was two weeks ago. You sent no recap, and you will still read something before you dial in. Ember Console is a session-report builder for coaches, in closed beta, and who the report goes to is not a setting in it: it is which template you pick. So keep two, and give the second no reader but you. That is the own-eyes template.

Should coaches send session notes to clients?

That is yours to decide. Both answers leave you reading something before the next call.

One r/lifecoaching poster, in a thread on sending recaps, says they stopped once early clients began depending on the coach to remember the action items. Another, in a thread on note-taking, keeps the two apart: “My ‘notes’ are for me. I don’t share them with my clients.” It is the same boundary as where accountability stops and surveillance starts.

Choosing yourself as the reader does not remove the disclosure. The ICF’s 2025 Code of Ethics, in force since April 1 2025, added Standard 2.5 on responsible use of AI: disclose the AI, and say who accesses the data. Ask your client, and check your jurisdiction.

How do coaches prepare for a session?

By reading what the last one produced. Something had to write it first.

In Ember Console a template is your letterhead plus a set of boxes, each box with a prompt and an eval of its own. The AI you already use fills them, then reworks any that fails until it passes your standard.

The boxes I would write for a report nobody else opens:

1. The thread to pick up.
2. The one thing to follow up.
3. What I noticed and did not say.

One r/lifecoaching poster keeps that third box on paper, jotting down thoughts to follow up on.

The result is editable in the dashboard, which is where you read it before the call. The Individual plan names unlimited templates at $8 a month billed yearly, so the client-facing one and the own-eyes one are both templates.

The Ember landing page’s pricing panel says: “Every plan keeps your letterhead, exports to PDF or Word, and your data stays yours.”

What is not stated yet?

How the letterhead is set. Upload or fields, per template or per coach: my own letterhead sheet asks and answers nothing. Language preference sits on it in the same state.

One of those matters here more than the rest. An own-eyes report still has your letterhead on it, and nothing says whether two templates can have different ones, so the page you never send may come out dressed to be sent.

Whether a report can be sent from Ember rather than downloaded is not stated either, and nothing in the facts describes anything between sessions.

If this still reads as no use to you, the one-minute no names the coaches it is not for.

You already have a reader. It is you, before the next call, and that is the one the second template is for.

Questions people ask next?

Can one coach keep more than one template?

Yes. The pricing page names unlimited templates on the Individual plan, at $8 a month billed yearly. Whether their letterheads can differ is not stated.

Does Ember follow a client between sessions?

No. Nothing in the product facts describes anything outside the session and the report it produced. For a record of the fortnight in between, this is not it.

Can I try this without paying?

The free plan runs four reports a month at $0, with no card and no countdown. Enough to find out whether reading one changes how the next call opens.