AI that listens to the sermon, on your own machine
NaveLight is AI church presentation software that runs entirely on the church's own computer. It transcribes the message as it is preached, detects Bible references from the spoken words, finds passages by meaning when no reference is given, follows the line being sung, and writes live captions. No audio is uploaded, there is no per-minute cost, and it keeps working with the network unplugged.
What the AI does
- Detects spoken references
- “Turn to Romans chapter eight, verse twenty-eight” resolves in about two seconds, at roughly 97% confidence.
- Finds passages by meaning
- When the preacher tells the story without giving a reference, it surfaces the passage anyway.
- Follows the sung lyric
- Recognises an unplanned song from the singing and keeps the slide on the line being sung.
- Writes live captions
- The same transcript goes on screen for anyone in the room who needs it.
- Summarises the service
- Turns the transcript into key points, exportable as text, Markdown, PDF or Word.
What it deliberately doesn't
- Generate sermons, prayers or any other content. It finds scripture, it does not write it.
- Decide theology, choose which passage you should preach, or edit what was said.
- Send anything anywhere. There is no cloud service behind it and no account.
- Act on its own unless you have explicitly allowed that capability to.
A church is not a place to be casual about what software is allowed to say. The AI here finds and cues scripture that already exists; every word on screen came from the translation you chose.
AI Assist
You'll always know what it heard.
Every suggestion tells you where it came from and how confident it is. Nothing reaches the screen unless you've said it can. This is the part most churches are nervous about, so it's the part we've been most careful with.
They say it. It's already there.
“Turn with me to Romans chapter eight.” By the time the pages stop rustling, the verse is waiting on your screen. NaveLight handles the way people actually talk. Numbers said out loud, book names shortened, the correction halfway through a sentence.
- “Next verse” and “back a chapter” work the same way
- It stays quiet during the prayer, and won't put back something you just took down
- Nothing goes up unless it's sure, and you decide what sure means
Let me read it to you the way Paul wrote it.
Go with me to Romans chapter eight, verse twenty-eight
Most of the time, nobody gives you a reference
They just tell the story. So when the message turns to the son who came home, or the storm on the lake, or the walls at Jericho, NaveLight finds the passage anyway. And it tells you it got there by the meaning rather than the words.
- Every suggestion says how it was found, so you know which ones to trust
- The weakest guesses can never put themselves on screen
- Wave a wrong verse away and it won't offer you that one again
…the younger one took his share and went off to a far country, and he spent it all
Related passages sit alongside, ready if the message moves on.
You decide how far it can go
Some churches want the AI to sit quietly and offer. Others are happy for it to put a confident verse up on its own. You choose, one thing at a time. It isn't all or nothing. Assist only ever suggests. Smart Auto goes ahead when it's at least 95% sure. Full Auto hands it the screen.
- It arrives cautious. The guessier things stay on Assist until you say otherwise
- One button puts everything back to suggesting, if a service starts getting away from you
- Change your mind halfway through a service. Nothing stops, nothing restarts
Smart Auto projects confident references & commands (≥95%); semantic matches always wait for you. Lyric follow never airs new content, it only moves within the song already live.
It hears the singing too
The band goes round the chorus one more time. Or starts something that was never on the list. NaveLight hears what's being sung, works out the song, and offers it up, so the words are there by the second line instead of the second verse.
- It shows you the words it heard, and whether it's certain or just guessing
- Nothing changes on screen without you
- The unplanned reprise is where operators get caught out. This is for that
“when peace like a river attendeth my way…”
Live song · lyric follow
It keeps working after everyone's gone home
The words NaveLight is already listening to can go up as live captions for anyone in the room who needs them. Afterwards they're your service notes, with the main points pulled out, ready to hand to your pastor before you've finished packing up.
- Captions on the screens you want them on, and off on the ones you don't
- Every verse that went up is already written down for you
- Save it as text, Markdown, PDF or Word
- Teach it your church's names, your town, and the words it keeps mishearing
Key points
Captured verses
Straight answers
What churches ask about the AI
What AI software helps church media teams?
NaveLight is an AI-assisted church presentation platform that detects spoken Bible references, finds passages by meaning when no reference is given, follows the line being sung, writes live sermon captions and summarises the service into key points. All of it runs on the church's own computer rather than in the cloud.
Is AI in church presentation software actually reliable?
It is reliable enough to suggest, and NaveLight is built so you decide whether it may do more than that. Explicit spoken references resolve at around 97% confidence, meaning-based matches lower, and keyword matches are capped at 60% and can never project themselves. Every suggestion shows both the confidence and how it was found, so the operator is never guessing about the guess.
Will AI replace the person running our screens?
No, and it is not designed to. The operator still runs the service; the AI removes the typing so they can watch the room instead of the keyboard. The most common setup leaves the AI suggesting rather than projecting, which is the default the software ships with.
Still have a question?
Ask us anything, including the awkward ones. A real person answers, and if NaveLight isn't right for your church we'll say so.
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