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¶ What is Cogent Clinic?

Cogent Clinic is an AI documentation tool for UK psychologists. It transcribes sessions with the client's consent, replaces identifying details with placeholders in your browser before anything is sent for drafting, and writes the note in the conventions of the approach you used, whether that is CBT, EMDR, CFT, schema, ACT, IFS, integrative or an assessment. It is built and run by Cogent Clinic Ltd, a UK company, and it is registered with the MHRA as a Class I medical device. There is a free tier and no card is needed to start.

¶ Who can use Cogent Clinic?

Sign-up is open to UK HCPC-registered practitioner psychologists, which covers the clinical, counselling, forensic, health, educational, sport and exercise, and occupational titles. The templates are built around psychological therapy and assessment rather than general medical notes, so the fit is closest for that work. Counsellors and psychotherapists registered with BACP or UKCP are not part of the launch audience yet.

¶ Does the AI see my clients' names?

No, not in normal use. Names, NHS numbers, dates of birth, contact details, postcodes and comparable identifiers are detected and replaced with neutral placeholders inside your browser before any text is sent for drafting, so what reaches the model reads as [PERSON_1] rather than a real name. The mapping back to the real names is held encrypted at rest on UK infrastructure under a managed key, with access controlled and logged, and your browser restores the real names in the draft that comes back to you.

¶ Where is my data processed?

Hosting, storage, backups, audit logs and the AI drafting all run on UK infrastructure in AWS London. Live session audio is the one exception: it streams from your browser directly to a speech-to-text provider processing at its EU endpoint in Dublin, without passing through Cogent's servers, and the transcript that comes back is stored encrypted at rest in the UK. Every sub-processor and its location is listed in the Trust Centre.

¶ Do I need my client's consent to use an AI scribe?

You stay the data controller for your clients' information, so the consent conversation is yours rather than ours. In practice most clinicians explain what the tool does, what gets recorded and where it goes, then record the client's agreement before turning on live transcription. Cogent publishes a client consent template and a plain-language notice you can adapt, and the free UK GDPR guide works through the lawful-basis reasoning.

¶ Who is the author of the notes?

You are. Every output is a draft for you to read, correct and sign off, and the clinician is the author of record for every document Cogent produces. That sentence is written into the system prompt as well as into the terms. Cogent does not diagnose, recommend treatment, interpret assessment data or predict risk.

¶ Is Cogent Clinic a medical device?

Yes. Cogent Clinic is a Class I medical device under UK MDR 2002, registered with the MHRA. In practice that means it works to a documented intended purpose, carries a clinical risk-management process and post-market surveillance, and stays inside the boundary of documentation rather than clinical decision-making.

¶ How much does Cogent Clinic cost?

The free tier gives you ten generations a month with no card and no time limit, and every account includes its first five transcribed sessions. Core is £22 a month and Professional is £59 a month, which adds unlimited live session transcription, premium model routing for long-form work, pre-supervision briefs and Word export.