The note is written by the time the session ends.

Four things, and it does them in your order.

• Runs the intake you wrote.You supply the interview — the questions, the order, the follow-ups, the stopping rules. Alba asks them and keeps track of what has been covered. It does not decide what is clinically worth asking.
• Transcribes the encounter.Speaker-separated and timestamped, in any of fourteen languages. The audio and the transcript are yours, and you set how long either is kept.
• Assembles a structured note.Presenting concerns, history, current circumstances — organised into the sections your practice uses, in the patient’s words rather than paraphrased into a conclusion.
• Organises what was said against the criteria you work from.Point Alba at a DSM-5 criterion set and it will lay out, criterion by criterion, what the patient actually said that bears on each one — and where the interview produced nothing. It gathers the evidence and arranges it. Whether a criterion is met is a judgement, and it stays yours.
• Administers and scores standard instruments.PHQ-9, GAD-7, AUDIT and the rest, scored by each instrument’s own published algorithm, with every item response shown next to the total.

The list below is enforced in the software, not promised in a footer.

Software that reaches a clinical conclusion is a different kind of product with a different kind of obligation. Alba is built to stop short of that line. In the US configuration each of these is a gate in the code: a model that would produce one of them is refused before it runs, and the refusal is written to the audit log.

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  No diagnosis, and no verdict on a criterion.Alba lays the evidence out under each criterion. It will not say the criterion is met, count how many are, name a condition, rank a differential, or give a likelihood. The difference between arranging evidence and drawing a conclusion from it is the whole design.
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  No risk score.No suicide-risk flag, no severity rating of Alba’s own, no alert that a patient needs attention sooner.
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  No treatment recommendation.Not a medication, not a modality, not a referral, not a next appointment.
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  No triage of your caseload.Alba does not order, prioritise, or sort patients by anything it has inferred about them.
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  No analysis of voice, tone, or affect.Alba reads what was said. It does not measure how it was said, and draws no inference from a speaker’s prosody, pauses, or emotional expression.
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  No autonomous action.Nothing is filed, sent, or shared until you have read it and released it.
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  Not for emergencies, and not for patients on their own.Alba is used by a licensed clinician or under one’s supervision. It is not a crisis service and not a self-assessment tool.

Nothing in the note is something you have to take on trust.

Every line Alba writes carries the span of transcript it came from. Click it and you are at the moment in the session, in the patient’s words, with the audio if you kept it. There is no step where information becomes a judgement out of sight.

Illustrative. Notice what is absent: no criterion is marked met, nothing is counted, no condition is named. Alba shows you where to look and what was said there. The reading is yours.

The instructions Alba was given are visible to you too. You can read the exact interview script and the exact summarising instruction that produced any note, and you can change them.

What we can show you today — and what we will not claim yet.

Every vendor in this category writes “HIPAA compliant” on its website. Nobody issues that as a certificate, so the phrase carries whatever the vendor wants it to carry. We publish the specific version instead, including the parts that are not finished.

Read how we handle patient information →
Named subprocessors, what each receives, which features are switched off for want of an agreement, and what is not in place yet.

Bring your own intake form and we will run it next week.

The fastest way to find out whether this fits your practice is to hand us the intake interview you already use and see what comes back. No integration work, no migration.