Intake Questions

Ask better intake questions before session one.

Clarify the client's goal, context, constraints, and success signals before the first coaching conversation starts.

Intake questions
Working agreement
First coaching arc

25-40 minutes

Client Onboarding

Plan

Next move

Draft the intake and agreement before the first session gets vague.

CoachGPT keeps client context, expectations, cadence, and progress criteria connected from day one.

Step by step

3 focused steps

Practical actions

6 useful tools

Clear goal

Built for this moment

Start with one output

The first step creates something concrete enough to copy, share, save, or improve in the next tool.

Continue without restarting

Each step points to the next useful move, so a single visit can become a short working session.

Useful to send to someone

Share the path with a coach, client, partner, parent group, or teammate when this is the problem they have today.

Where it helps

A short path for a specific moment.

A new client is ready to begin, but the intake, agreement, first-session focus, cadence, and progress criteria are still too loose.

Turn a new client start into a clean onboarding flow with intake questions, agreement points, session rhythm, and a first arc.

1

Clarify the intake

Capture client context, goals, constraints, and the questions that must be answered before session one.

Draft the intake
2

Set the working agreement

Make scope, cadence, boundaries, homework, communication, and progress review explicit before ambiguity becomes friction.

Set the agreement
3

Map the first arc

Turn the first few sessions into a visible path with notes and progress signals ready from the beginning.

Plan the first arc
Coaching Intake Questions Builder - CoachGPT | CoachGPT