AfterSession
AI clinical note generator for therapists, counselors, and social workers. AfterSession never records the session: it works from a short recap you write or dictate afterwards, turning it into a structured SOAP, DAP, BIRP, GIRP, or PIE note.
What is AfterSession?
AfterSession is an AI-assisted clinical documentation tool for licensed mental health professionals. One architectural choice sets it apart from the rest of its category: the session itself is never captured. No microphone runs in the room, and the client is never transcribed. Once the appointment is over, the clinician types a few observations or dictates a short voice note, and the AI turns that recap into a structured clinical note. As the publisher puts it, "Most AI scribes record and transcribe your client. AfterSession works from a short recap you write or speak — and turns it into a structured SOAP, DAP, BIRP, GIRP, or PIE note."
Five formats are supported: SOAP, DAP, BIRP, GIRP, and PIE. The workflow has four steps: add your notes after the session, let the AI write a draft, review and correct it, then save or export. Nothing is stored before the clinician approves it, and every note stays editable. The site claims a structured note in under a minute, and its demo page shows one produced in sixty seconds.
The tool is aimed at therapists, counselors, psychologists, and social workers, in solo private practice or in small group practices of two to ten clinicians. Its positioning is deliberately negative in places: AfterSession is not a recording tool, not a transcription service, not an EHR replacement, and not a clinical decision system — "AfterSession supports clinical documentation — not clinical decision-making." It runs alongside whatever EHR the practice already uses, since the finished note is moved by copy and paste and there is no native integration. Everything happens in a browser, from a phone, a tablet, or a desktop, and custom AI prompts let each clinician keep their own clinical voice.
On the privacy side, the product runs on HIPAA-eligible AWS services, with encryption in transit and at rest, strict access controls, and least-privilege internal access. A Business Associate Agreement is signed with every paying subscriber, audio is deleted immediately after processing, and no model is trained on client data. Two facts frame the rest: the publisher's own comparison page says the tool is built by one person, and the product is new, its domain registered in January 2026 and first archived in May 2026.
What it does
- Turn a short written or dictated recap into a structured clinical note
- Produce notes in SOAP, DAP, BIRP, GIRP, or PIE format
- Review, edit, and approve every draft before anything is saved
- Shape tone, structure, and level of detail with custom AI prompts
- Save notes to secure storage inside the account
- Export notes as PDF or text and paste them into any EHR
- Add extra clinicians to a group practice
When to use AfterSession / When not to
A quick filter to help you decide if AfterSession is the right fit.
When to use AfterSession
- Private-practice therapists and counselors who will not record their clients
- Psychologists and social workers who write up their own sessions
- Small group practices of two to ten clinicians
- Solo clinicians who want to cut the time spent on documentation
- Practices that need HIPAA-aligned documentation tools covered by a signed BAA
When not to use AfterSession
- Clinicians who need a full EHR integration rather than note generation alone
- Organizations that require on-premise hosting
- Practitioners who prefer to write every note themselves
- Teams looking for scheduling, telehealth, or billing features
- Clinicians who want verbatim client language captured for them, since a recap-based note only contains what you put in the recap
How to use AfterSession
A typical end-to-end flow, from setup to results.
- Sign up for the free trial: it takes about two minutes and asks for no credit card
- Finish your session as usual; nothing is recorded and no microphone runs during the appointment
- Type a short recap of your observations, or dictate a brief voice note
- Choose the format you need: SOAP, DAP, BIRP, GIRP, or PIE
- Optionally set custom AI prompts to steer tone, structure, and level of detail
- Let the AI draft the structured note on HIPAA-eligible AWS services
- Read the draft, rewrite the wording, add details, or delete sections
- Save the note in AfterSession, or export it as PDF or plain text
- Copy and paste the finished note into your own EHR
- Move to a paid plan to keep going, and sign the BAA presented during the upgrade or requested through the contact form, countersigned within one to two business days
Pros & Cons
Pros
- The session is never captured: the client's speech never enters the system, which no other tool in the publisher's own comparison offers
- Five note formats, including GIRP and PIE, which few competitors cover
- Lowest entry price of that comparison, at USD 29.95 per month
- Unlimited note generation, with no per-note quota
- A Business Associate Agreement is signed with every paying subscriber, presented during the upgrade
- Explicit commitment never to train models on client data, and audio deleted after processing
- Free trial with no credit card, founding rate locked for life, no installation, and cancellation at any time
Cons
- The note only contains what the clinician put in the recap: nothing of the client's own words is captured
- No native EHR integration; the finished note moves by copy and paste only
- No telehealth, no scheduling, no billing, and no on-premise hosting
- No documented GDPR framework: no DPA, no Article 27 representative, and US-only hosting
- No company name, postal address, or support email published; the only channel is a web form
- Built by one person, so the feature surface is narrower than that of venture-funded competitors
- No permanent free plan, and a very young product: domain registered in January 2026, first archived in May 2026
Pricing & Plans
There is no permanent free plan. AfterSession offers a free trial limited to 7 days or 5 notes, with no credit card required; once the trial ends, a paid subscription is required to continue. The lowest price point is the Founding Clinician plan at USD 29.95 per month for the first clinician, plus USD 19.95 per month for each additional clinician, a rate locked for life while the subscription remains active. Once the founding places are taken, the Standard plan applies at USD 49.95 per month for the first clinician and USD 29.95 per month for each additional one. Billing renews automatically at each period and can be cancelled at any time from the account settings, with effect at the end of the current period.
- 7 days or 5 notes
- no credit card required
- note generation only
- no BAA
- USD 29.95 per month for the first clinician
- plus USD 19.95 per month per additional clinician
- locked for life
- limited number of places
- USD 49.95 per month for the first clinician
- plus USD 29.95 per month per additional clinician
- applied once the founding places are taken
- unlimited notes
- SOAP
- DAP
- BIRP
- GIRP and PIE formats
- typed or voice input
- custom AI prompts
- secure storage
Data, GDPR & hosting
A consolidated view of how AfterSession handles your data.
GDPR overview
There is no mention of the GDPR anywhere on the site. Across the fourteen pages collected, "GDPR" and "data processing agreement" do not appear once: no DPA, no Article 27 EU representative, no stated legal basis, no named DPO. The only regulatory framework AfterSession claims is American: HIPAA, with a Business Associate Agreement signed with every paying subscriber and presented during the upgrade, the free trial being left outside that agreement. Hosting is declared as US-based, HIPAA-eligible cloud infrastructure, with no European region and no documented transfer mechanism. User rights appear informally under a "Your choices" heading: access, update, deletion of content, export, and contact at privacy@aftersession.com. A European clinician should therefore treat this tool as having no documented GDPR framework at all.
Who owns the data?
The terms place both ownership and responsibility with the clinician: "You're responsible for the content you enter and the final notes you save or export." The publisher states that "your notes remain yours alone", and that saved notes stay in the account until the user deletes them. Nothing is stored before the clinician has explicitly reviewed and approved the draft, so the clinician decides what is kept at all. Users can access and update their account information, delete their content, and export their notes at any time. AfterSession declares that it does not sell customer data, does not share it, and never trains AI models on client data.
Reuse rights
The clinician can reuse the generated notes without asking permission: every note is an editable draft that can be rewritten, saved, exported as PDF or plain text, and pasted into any EHR. On the publisher's side, the privacy policy limits the use of collected data to running and improving the service, preventing abuse and keeping the service secure, answering support and other requests, and handling billing and account management. What is collected covers account information (name, email), anonymized usage data such as page views and feature counters, submitted content (notes and short voice notes), and support messages. Audio and text are processed only to generate note drafts, and "audio recordings are deleted after processing and are never retained". Two uses are excluded in writing: "We do not use customer data to train public AI models, and we do not allow third parties to use your data for model training." Messages sent through the contact form are read by a human and never used to train an AI.
Data retention & training
Hosting summary
AfterSession states that data stays within the United States, on HIPAA-eligible cloud infrastructure. HIPAA-eligible AWS services are named for transcription and note generation, covered by a Business Associate Agreement, and the publisher writes that the product "is built on HIPAA-eligible AWS services and is designed to minimize the handling and retention of sensitive data". Data is encrypted in transit and at rest, access controls are described as strict, and internal access follows least privilege, with the team stating it never reads clinical content. The privacy policy names two subprocessors: Amplitude for analytics and Resend for email delivery. No European region is offered, and no region choice is proposed. One technical nuance from our own checks: the resolved IP address (3.165.190.114, Amazon AS16509) geolocates to a node in Zurich. That is normal CDN behaviour, serving from the nearest point of presence, and should not be read as the place where data is stored.
Things to keep in mind
Risks and trade-offs to weigh before adopting AfterSession.
- A note is only as good as the recap written afterwards: if attention drops or the recap is rushed, the clinical record thins out, and nothing of the session exists to fall back on
- No company name, no postal address, and no identifiable legal entity are published; the only name available is the founder's, which limits recourse if something goes wrong
- There is no support email: the only channel is the contact form, with an announced reply time of one to two business days
- The single email address published on the site, privacy@aftersession.com, sits on a neighbouring .com domain rather than on the product's .ai domain
- No GDPR mention, no DPA, no Article 27 representative, and US-only hosting: a European clinician has no documented framework to rely on
- The BAA is not available during the free trial, so anything entered in those first 7 days or 5 notes is not covered by it
- A very recent product, built by one person, whose founding rate will be replaced by the Standard rate at an unannounced date: continuity and cost should both be assessed before making it central to a practice
Setup & Integrations
Technical difficulty
Very low. There is nothing to install and nothing to integrate: everything happens in a browser, on phone, tablet, or desktop. Signing up takes two minutes with no credit card, and the demo page shows a first structured note in sixty seconds. No technical skill is required: the clinician types or dictates a recap, picks a format, and proofreads. The only optional setting is the custom AI prompts that steer tone and structure. The BAA is presented during the upgrade and adds no technical step; moving notes to an EHR is manual copy and paste, with nothing to configure.
Deployment
Behind AfterSession
Fundraising
Resources
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Alternatives
Tools that compete with or complement AfterSession.
Frequently asked questions
Do I have to record my sessions?
Can I type instead of dictating?
Which note formats are available?
Can I edit what the AI writes?
Is AfterSession HIPAA compliant?
Does it integrate with my EHR?
How much does it cost, and is there a free plan?
Who is the tool built for?
Does it replace clinical judgment?
Should you pick AfterSession?
AfterSession occupies a narrow but real niche: clinicians who will not record their clients. That refusal can come from consent, from the populations they work with, or simply from what a microphone does to a room, and no retention policy from a recording-based competitor answers it. AfterSession answers it by design, because the session never enters the system at all.
The trade-off is stated plainly by the publisher: a recap-based note only contains what you put in the recap. If you want verbatim client language you did not write down, this is not the tool. What you get instead is the lowest entry price of the publisher's own comparison at USD 29.95 per month, unlimited note generation, five formats including GIRP and PIE, and cancellation at any time.
Two reservations deserve weight. The first is identity: no company name, no postal address, and no support email appear anywhere on the site; the only name published is the founder's, the product is openly built by one person, and the domain was registered in January 2026. The second is regulatory framing. The HIPAA side is solid on paper, with a BAA for every paying subscriber, HIPAA-eligible AWS services, audio deleted after processing, and no model training on client data, but the free trial is left outside that BAA. Against that, there is not a single mention of the GDPR, no DPA, and no Article 27 representative: for a European practitioner, that is a blocker rather than a detail.
Finally, this is one tool, not a platform: no EHR integration, no scheduling, no billing. Judged on that scope, and by a solo clinician who documents after the session rather than during it, it does what it says it does.
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