Your client forgets the week. Then spends your first ten minutes trying to remember it.

I am looking into whether that is worth fixing, and I would like ten practitioners to tell me. Twenty-five minutes on a call, or a reply to a few questions by email if that suits you better.

The idea

A client records short entries as things happen. A feeling, how strong it was, what was going on, what went through their mind, what they did. Thirty seconds, on their phone, at the time rather than from memory a fortnight later.

Before their session they assemble those entries into a one-page summary, decide what to include, and choose whether to send it to you. You read it on the web in about two minutes. No software to install, no account to set up.

It is a thought record that happens in the moment instead of being reconstructed, and a way for a client to arrive having already decided what they want the hour for.

What it deliberately does not do

It does not monitor anyone. Nothing reaches you between sessions. No alerts, no notifications, no live feed, not even if a client writes something alarming. You are not being given a duty you did not agree to.
It does not interpret. No scores, no AI insight, no "your client is getting worse". It records what they wrote and shows it to you. Any clinical judgement is yours.
It does not show you anything they did not send. You cannot browse their entries. You see a summary they built and chose to share, and you are told if they left things out, but never what.
It does not create work for you. No setup, no assignments to configure, nothing to mark.

Why I am asking before building

Because the thing I am least sure about is whether any of this is useful to you, and that is not a question I can answer by thinking harder about it on my own. A one-page summary before a session could be genuinely helpful, or it could be one more thing in an inbox. I would rather find out now than after six months of building.

I also want to know what you would never want on it. That matters as much as the rest.

What I am asking for

Twenty-five minutes, or an email reply. Whichever is easier.

I will show you a clickable prototype and ask what you would want on the summary, what would worry you, and whether you would use it. I am not selling anything. There is nothing to buy, and there is no mailing list.

Email me

hello@keptfocus.app

Questions I would ask

So you can decide whether it is worth your time, and think about it beforehand if you would like to.

How do you currently find out about a client's week in the first ten minutes?
How often do clients struggle to remember or explain what happened between sessions?
Do you ask for thought records or diaries now, and how well does that actually work?
If a client sent you a one-page summary beforehand, what would you want on it, and what would you never want on it?
What worries you about clients using something like this: boundaries, risk, data, workload?
Would you expect to be notified of anything between sessions?

I am Ryan Lees. I teach psychology, and I am looking at this because a friend with sudden-onset anxiety started therapy and could not hold on to what happened between appointments. I am not a clinician, which is exactly why I am asking people who are before I design any more of it.

On data, since you will ask

Nothing has been built yet, so nothing is being collected from anyone. When it is: health data held in the UK, under explicit consent, nothing shared without the client doing it themselves each time, no advertising, and no AI trained on anything written in it. A data protection impact assessment is already drafted and will be reviewed properly before a single real client uses it.

If you think the whole idea is wrong, that is the most useful twenty-five minutes you could give me.

If you have come here because you are struggling

This page is about something that does not exist yet, and Kept is not a crisis service. If you need help now: call 999 if life is in danger, call NHS 111 and choose the mental health option, or call Samaritans on 116 123, free, any time of day. You can also text SHOUT to 85258.