What a brief looks like
The one you’d write yourself.
The four moves your link produces. Worked only from what’s written, nothing invented.
Illustrative situation — the brief itself is real engine output, not written for this page.
A briefthe offerA brief
drawn from 1 entry
The case you built
more money, better title, everything looks right on paper · I've said yes out loud to three people now and it still doesn't sit right · I keep catching myself saying 'I should want this' · every time I picture actually starting there, something in me goes quiet
It holds
You've already said yes three times and the quiet hasn't lifted — the case for the job is fully built, and it's the only case here that is.
What’s missing
Every line makes the case for why you should take it — money, title, the step up, what other people heard you say. None of them says what you'd be doing there, or what any part of you was hoping for that this doesn't touch. The 'should want' is loud; the 'want' never gets a line of its own.
Say it
The thing I actually wanted, that this offer doesn't give me, is ___.
What your client hands you
The Session Prep they choose to bring in.
Not a transcript, and not their raw writing. A short Session Prep — the threads that keep coming up, and what each one leaves unwritten — worked from their own words. What they choose to bring in, nothing more.
For your session Session PrepWhat you’ve been carrying · shared by your client
Across this week
The logistics are worked through in each one — what isn’t written down is what any of it costs you.
What kept coming up
- House — six clauses on the logistics; one half-line on the thing that decides it
- Difficult conversation — the timing, the setting, what you’d open with, all worked out; what you’re afraid they’ll say back, not on the page
- Leaving — the numbers, the team, the six years, all there; whether you’d be relieved to go, not written down
- The side project — the fork named, build it or just like the idea; what starting would cost, left off the page
What’s shared is the client’s call: their Session Prep, brought in when they choose.
Never their raw writing, never the deeper picture they keep to themselves. You get only what they want you to see.
The brief belongs to your client — not to me, and not to you unless the client chooses to bring it.
Where the line is
Your client decides what you see.
A shared brief is prep, not surveillance. Your client chooses what they hand you, and what they keep. You never see what they didn’t send. There’s no dashboard and no back channel; nothing reaches you that the client didn’t deliberately hand over.
The relationship stays yours. Unfogged doesn’t coach or advise, and it isn’t a marketplace. It’s the layer between sessions.
The questions you’d ask first
Is this coaching software — will it do my job?
No. It works from what a client’s own writing shows and names what’s missing from it. It doesn’t coach, advise, or assess.
Will the client get attached to it instead of to me?
There’s nothing to get attached to. It hands the client one thing and stops — no conversation, nothing that holds the client between sessions the way you do.
Can I see a client’s briefs the client hasn’t shared?
No. The client chooses what to hand you — an overview, or a single brief, one at a time, deliberately. You never see what wasn’t sent, and nothing reaches you automatically. That limit is the reason there’s anything worth bringing you.
What happens when it has nothing to say?
It says so, and stops. When the writing doesn’t hold enough to point to, the client gets one honest line instead of a manufactured brief — and that silence fires more often than you’d expect from software. It won’t fill the space with something that isn’t there.
The founding group
I’m taking on a few coaches to work with by hand.
I’m taking on a small number of coaches by hand, because I don’t yet know what the perfect between-session workflow looks like — and the people who hold the thread between sessions are the ones who’d know. You’d get it first and lock founding terms. If you sit with people at decision points, I’d like to hear how you’d use it.