See what your people need, sooner.
Admins and staff open Lighthouse. Group leaders and members never see it.
AI for ministry, not content creation.
Content has its place, and Lighthouse can draft a study, a lesson or a post when you need one. But the goal is ministry: knowing what God’s people are carrying, and caring for them well.
Lighthouse reads the weeks ahead and what your people are carrying, and tells you what it noticed and why. What you do with that is ministry, and it stays yours.
This week’s read, one press away.
Staff see a Lighthouse AI button at the top right of Trellis. It opens Sunday’s forecast, the top insight and a suggestion, and says when a new read is in.
Know which Sundays will be full.
Learned from your own counts, with a likely range and the reason for each.
See grief, money and work as they rise.
Counted from prayer requests and write-ups. A theme shows only once at least five people or groups have raised it.
Read the week as a whole.
Each insight shows its evidence, what argues against it, and when to look again.
Plan a series for what’s coming.
Lighthouse suggests a series for the weeks ahead and says why it fits now. Plan it, and each Sunday gets a passage, a title and its big idea, led by the lectionary if you follow it.
Give groups and kids the same week.
From any Sunday in the series, Lighthouse drafts a group study, a kids’ lesson, a class or a service order. Nothing goes out on its own: a study reaches group leaders only when you share it.
Every part gives Lighthouse more to read.
Lighthouse comes with Trellis. It starts with your Sunday counts, and each part your church adds gives it more to notice.
- Every church
- Sunday’s forecast: a likely range for each Sunday ahead, learned from your head counts. It starts once eight Sundays are counted.
- Any paid part
- The Monday read: what changed this week and why it might have, in plain words, with a series that fits what’s coming.
- Groups
- What your people are carrying: themes counted from prayer requests and write-ups, shown once five people or groups raise one.
- Serving
- Who said no to serving, and themes from serving-day write-ups.
- Communications
- Which emails people opened. Drafted posts and emails wait there until someone sends them.
- Registration
- Sign-ups for what’s coming. Drafted classes wait there as events.
- Check-in
- How many children came.
- Giving
- Recurring gifts paused or ended, and giving against the same weeks last year, once an admin or Finance turns it on.
- Worship
- A planned series goes straight to Worship.
What Lighthouse won’t do.
Included.
Lighthouse reads what your church already keeps in Trellis, so it grows with the parts you choose.
Straight answers.
If yours isn’t here, write to us. We answer our own email.
Whose AI is it, and what does it do?
Anthropic’s Claude, which Silas runs on too. Plain statistics do the counting. Claude reads those counts and says, in words, what they suggest.
What if we turn Silas off?
Lighthouse pauses what Silas does. With him off nothing goes to Anthropic: no Monday read, no themes and no drafts. Sunday’s forecast is still made from your counts, and what it read before stays.
Does it read our prayer requests and write-ups?
Only after an admin turns that on. A model reads each one to tag its themes, and Lighthouse keeps the counts, never the words. A theme appears only when at least five people or groups raised it, and Lighthouse’s insights are written from those counts, with no names.
Does it read our giving?
Only after an admin or Finance turns that on. It reads counts: how many recurring gifts were paused or ended, how many are active, and the last 4 weeks’ giving as a percent of the same weeks last year. The model sees those figures, never a name or a gift.
Does it post anything or message anyone?
No. Lighthouse suggests and drafts, and a person decides what happens, in the part of Trellis where it happens. A post or an email from Lighthouse waits in Communications until someone sends it.
What does it need from us?
A head count each Sunday. It starts forecasting once eight Sundays are counted, and you can bring in past counts from a spreadsheet.
How much can it draft?
Up to 60 drafts a month for the church. Planning a series counts as one, and so does each study, lesson, outline, post, email, class or service order made from it. Changing a study’s length or who it’s for doesn’t.