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Practice management that stays out of the way.

Calendar, client charts, session notes and billing for solo and group mental health practices. Built to be quiet on the days that are not.

A week in the schedule: five days of sessions, one running as telehealth, one cancelled, and two marked as still owing a note.

Awaiting co-signature

2 notes

Resolved against the date of service, not today.

Insight Notes is practice management for mental health clinicians, built so the record stays worth trusting.

Everything a practice runs on

The calendar, the chart, the notes and the money.

Built as one thing, so the same session does not have to be entered twice.

The record

A session note is a legal document before it is a form field.

Signing locks the note, and a locked note cannot be quietly altered. Work done under supervision carries the supervisor's own signature, resolved against the date of service rather than whoever supervises now — and a supervisor who disagrees sends it back with a reason instead of editing somebody else's clinical account.

A signed progress note, showing the clinician's signature, the date it was signed, and that it is locked against further editing.
  • Progress notes that sign and lock
  • Psychotherapy notes kept out of the chart
  • Co-signature for supervised clinicians
  • An audit trail that cannot be edited

Records held the way a mental health practice has to hold them.

  • Encrypted with its own key

    Client data is encrypted with a key separate from the application's, so a leaked application secret is not a leaked chart.

  • One practice cannot see another

    Every record carries the practice it belongs to, and every read is scoped to it — not by a filter somebody has to remember to write.

  • An audit trail that cannot be edited

    Who opened a record, and when, is written append-only. Nothing in the application can rewrite it afterwards.

How we hold your records

Which are you

The questions differ, so the answers do.

A practice of one asks whether it can run all of this alone. A group asks whether it can supervise, delegate and be accountable for work somebody else did.

Before you move a practice

The questions worth asking a vendor.

Every answer here is something you can check against the product rather than take on trust. Where the answer is no, it says no.

Can I get everything out again?

Yes, as a whole-practice export you run yourself. Two things are deliberately left out of it, and both are stated rather than discovered: psychotherapy notes are never included — not by default, not behind a flag, not at all — and clients whose records are marked restricted are dropped from bulk files. A vendor who tells you what their export omits has thought about it.

Can I bring my existing calendar in?

Appointments import from a CSV, on a screen in settings, so a practice moving across does not retype a year of standing sessions. Clinical records are not bulk-imported: a chart assembled by a script is a chart nobody has read.

Can my clients pay through it?

No. Insight Notes records a payment; it does not take one. There is no payment processor anywhere in the product, and the client portal shows a balance with no button beside it. That is a real limitation and it is on the page rather than in a footnote.

Is anything sent to an AI service?

No. There is no language-model package in the application and no key for one, and nothing about a client is sent anywhere. The product makes exactly one outbound request, and it is not about your data: when somebody chooses a password, the first five characters of its hash go to a public breach-checking service, which returns every known breached hash starting the same way. The password itself never leaves. Your claims file is downloaded by you and uploaded by you.

Could somebody quietly delete an audit entry?

The audit trail refuses to be edited or deleted. Not as a policy somebody follows — the record itself throws on any attempt to update or remove it, so the code that tried gets an error rather than a silently rewritten history. An audit log you can edit is a diary.

What happens to a note after it is signed?

It locks. A correction is a new addendum recorded alongside it, with its own author and its own timestamp, and the original text stays exactly as it was. A record that can be quietly rewritten after the fact is not evidence of anything.

Coming in, and going out

Your records stay yours, including on the way out.

Every practice choosing software has been stuck in some before. So this is worth saying before the part where we ask you to move: leaving is a feature, and it is built.

Arriving

Bring the calendar with you

Appointments import from a CSV pasted straight out of what you use now, so the first week is not spent retyping a diary that already exists.

Leaving

A whole-practice export, on request

Clients and their records, as a file you keep. Not a support ticket, not a fee, and not a negotiation at the point you have already decided to go.

Deliberately not included

Psychotherapy notes are never in a bulk file

Not by default, not behind a flag, not at all. They are the clinician's own record and a bulk export is the wrong container for them — they come out one client at a time, with the authorization that permits it.

Deliberately not included

Nor is a restricted chart

A client whose record is restricted — a colleague, a family member, anyone the practice has deliberately walled off — is left out of bulk files. That flag exists precisely so the record does not travel with everything else.

Getting started

Four steps, in the order they make sense.

The product walks this path with you, and it unlocks in sequence — so nobody ends up half-way through payer enrollment before they have a calendar.

  1. Start with the basics

    Your profile, two-factor authentication, and a first look at the calendar you will be living in.

  2. Get ready for your first appointment

    Add the clients you already see, set the hours you can be booked, and check the note templates you will be writing into.

  3. Set up billing

    Your billing identity, and enrolling with the payers you already work with.

  4. Try out additional features

    Where your referrals come from, and who has looked at which record.

Start with the week you are already having.

Set up a practice, put a real week in the calendar, and see whether it fits before you move anything across.