What Lighthouse AI reads

Lighthouse AI is for admins and staff. Group leaders and members never see it, or anything it reads.

What does Lighthouse read?

Always, it reads your calendar and your head counts. With any paid part and Silas on, it also reads counts from the other parts your church uses, such as attendance, declined asks, email opens, registrations and children checked in. It uses these as figures, never as names. Two things are off until someone switches them on: your people's prayer requests and write-ups, and giving. See Plan your season with Lighthouse AI.

Does Lighthouse read our prayer requests and write-ups?

Only after an admin ticks Read prayer requests and group write-ups for themes on Settings, with Silas on and Groups past 25 people (or Pioneer). Then, each night, Lighthouse reads about the last five weeks of a person's prayer requests, a group's prayer requests, group meeting write-ups and serving-day write-ups. A model reads each one and tags it with up to three themes, such as grief, money or work. It isn't told who wrote it or when.

What does Lighthouse keep?

Counts and theme tags, never the words. For each week it keeps how many different people or groups raised each theme. To count each person once, it also keeps a coded reference to each request or write-up it has read, so a changed one is read again, and a coded reference to the person or group who wrote it, made from who they are and the week. These codes are never the words and are never shown to anyone. They are deleted once their week leaves the reading window. They aren't anonymous: whoever holds the database could work out which person a code stands for. Lighthouse never keeps the words or anyone's name.

How many people must raise a theme before it shows?

At least five by default. Under Your people, the admin sets Show a theme once this many people name it to 5 people, 10 people or 20 people. A theme that fewer people raised isn't shown on its own. It's added into Other themes with the rest, as a total.

Does the model see names?

The model that tags themes reads the text of each prayer request and write-up, so a name written in one reaches it for that read. It's told to answer with themes only, and Lighthouse keeps none of the words. The model that writes insights and drafts sees counts, themes, calendar days and Lighthouse's own earlier suggestions, plus your church's name, the city as you entered it, and the dates and service names your staff typed, with the names of your church's people taken out. If an answer names someone from your church, Trellis throws it away.

Who can switch reading on?

Only an admin can change the prayer request and write-up switch and the theme minimum. Only an admin or someone in Finance can change Read giving. A person in Finance also needs the staff role to open Lighthouse. Anyone else who opens Settings sees the switch and Only an admin can change this. or Only an admin or Finance can change this. Admins and staff can change the rest of Settings.

What does reading giving mean?

Lighthouse counts the recurring gifts that were paused or ended, counts those still active, and compares the last four weeks' giving with the same weeks a year earlier. The model sees those figures. It never sees a name or a gift, and Lighthouse keeps no gift.

How do I turn reading off?

Untick the switch on Settings and press Save. Lighthouse stops reading that night and deletes its codes for who wrote what. The theme counts it already made stay, and aren't shown while reading is off.

Is what Lighthouse reads sent to Anthropic?

Yes. The models are Anthropic's Claude, as Silas's are, under the same terms: they don't train on it and keep it only briefly for abuse monitoring. See Who can see what and the privacy policy.

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