The work between sessions

A coaching engagement is mostly empty space. If you meet every two weeks for an hour, the client spends about one percent of the engagement with you and ninety-nine percent on their own. The session is where the direction is set. The result is decided in the days between.

That is the part most software ignores. Scheduling tools stop at the calendar. Note-taking tools stop at the notes. The client space in Commitment Coach is built for the other twenty-nine days.

What a client sees in the morning

A client opens their space on a phone, most often, and lands on Today. The screen is short on purpose. A greeting with their name. Today's habits, as a list they can tick. Any action due today. The next session, with a Join button when it is close. A line from you if you left one.

Checking in takes about a minute. There is no feed, no streak-shaming, no notification badge counting up. The streak for each habit is shown as a quiet number next to it, because people like to see it, but the screen does not punish a missed day.

Everything is in your colors with your logo at the top. Our name appears once, as a small "Powered by" line in Settings.

Goals with a why

Goals are the frame everything else hangs on. Each goal has a name, a target date, and a "why": a sentence or two in the client's own words about what the goal is for. The why sits at the top of the goal page so it is the first thing a client reads when they open it, and the first thing you see when you review their progress.

Under a goal you can attach metrics, habits and actions. A goal called "Make the career move" might carry a metric for applications sent, a habit for a daily thirty minutes of research, and an action to update the CV by Friday. The pieces are small so they can be finished.

Metrics you can log in a tap

A metric is a number tracked over time. You give it a name, a unit, a target and a direction. Energy, one to ten, aiming up. Applications sent, a count, aiming up. Evening screen time, in minutes, aiming down.

Clients log a value in a couple of taps from the goal page. The chart shows the entries over time with the target as a flat line, so progress is visible without any interpretation from you. You see the same chart from your side, and you can log a value during a session if the client prefers to say it out loud.

Habits that fit a real week

Habits recur daily or on the weekdays you choose, with an optional reminder time. "Morning pages, every day, remind me at 7:00." "Thirty-minute walk, Monday, Wednesday and Friday." The client ticks them on Today; the tick animates once, gently, and the streak count moves.

If a habit stops making sense, either of you can pause or end it. Nothing is lost. The history stays attached to the goal.

Actions from a line in your notes

Actions are one-off tasks with a due date. You can add them from the goal page, but the fastest way is from session notes. While you type the shared notes after a session, you can turn any line into an action with one click. "Send the pitch draft to Jane by Thursday" becomes an item on the client's Today screen with Thursday on it, linked back to the session it came from.

When the client marks it done, you see it on your side. When it is overdue, both of you see that too, in the plain muted way the rest of the app uses.

Shared notes and private notes

Every session has two kinds of notes. Shared notes are visible to the client in their space: the summary of what you covered, the agreed actions, the things to think about before next time. Private notes are yours alone. The client never sees them, and the client-facing view of the data excludes the column entirely, so there is no setting that could leak them.

Both sets are plain rich text. You can write them during the session or afterwards. Shared notes are saved to the session the client sees under Sessions, so the record of the engagement builds itself.

Chat that behaves

One-to-one chat sits in the client space and in your Inbox. Messages show read receipts, so a client knows you have seen a question. Files can be attached. If a client sends three messages while you are in another session, you get one email ten minutes after the first, listing all three, rather than three emails.

The chat is not meant to replace sessions, and it is not built to pull you in. There is no typing indicator, no "online now" dot, no push notification yet. It is a place for the message that would otherwise be a text at 11pm.

What you see from the other side

Your Today screen shows the clients who need attention. A client who has not checked anything off in seven days is flagged as quiet. A client whose completion rate has dropped under half this month is flagged as behind. The flags are calm: a name, a reason, a link. You decide what to do with them.

On each client's Overview you see their goals, their habits and the completion rate for the month, with days since last activity. On Goals you see the charts. On Sessions you see the notes. It is the whole engagement in one place, built from what the client did between sessions.

At the end

When an engagement completes, the client can open a progress summary: the goals, the metrics then and now, the habits kept, the sessions held. They can download it as a PDF or share it with a link. It is the record of the twenty-nine days a month, and it is often the thing that brings a client back for the next engagement.

The sessions are yours. The space between is where the work lives, and now it has somewhere to live.