Drafted in the conventions of the modality you work in.

A CBT note should not look like an EMDR note pretending.

You should not have to teach a documentation tool that "client" is the default term, that risk belongs in every entry, that defusion is not restructuring, that limited reparenting is not generic warmth, or that an EMDR note carries phase and SUDS. Cogent holds those conventions the way a supervisor would expect to find them, so the note comes back already in the shape of the modality you used, and the difference is easiest to see with CBT and EMDR side by side.

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 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.

The whole spread of clinical writing handled in one place.

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 on 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.