How we use AI
Last updated: July 10, 2026
Following Him gives your family a fresh scripture lesson every day — a story, an illustrated picture book, discussion questions, a coloring page, an audio narration, and printables. Creating a year of that by hand would take a large team many months. AI lets a small team do it — but AI never has the final word.
Nothing reaches your family until a person has reviewed every word and every image. This page explains exactly how that works, what rules the AI is bound to, and where people stay in charge.
Following Him is an independent product. It is not official content of, nor affiliated with or endorsed by, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
The journey of every lesson
Scripture & prophetic sources
Every week starts with the week's Old Testament chapters, real General Conference talks, and the official hymn and Primary song lists.
AI writes a draft
AI drafts the stories, discussion questions, and illustrations — following a locked rulebook it cannot ignore.
Automatic checks
Software verifies every quote against the real talk, scans for anything irreverent, and requires every day to point to Jesus Christ.
A person reviews everything
A human reviews every story, every image, and every audio narration. An incomplete week cannot be published — the system blocks it.
Published to your family
Only then does the week appear in the app — reviewed, complete, and ready for a few unhurried minutes together.
AI drafts. People approve. Nothing skips the line.
The rulebook every lesson follows
The AI doesn't write freestyle. Every single lesson is generated under a fixed set of rules built on the principles of Teaching in the Savior's Way — and many of those rules are enforced by software, not just requested. Here are the ones that matter most:
Every day points to Jesus Christ.
Each lesson includes a dedicated “Pointing to Christ” section showing how that day's scripture testifies of the Savior. It is required — never optional, never generic.
Quotes come only from real General Conference talks.
The AI selects from a list of real talks with the exact speaker, title, and link — and software verifies each one against the official source. It cannot invent a quote.
Music comes only from the official lists.
Hymns and Primary songs are chosen from the official music lists, with exact titles and numbers.
The Savior is always depicted with reverence.
Illustrations follow a locked, warm watercolor style with strict dignity rules for how the Savior appears, and an automatic scan rejects irreverent or cartoonish language before an image is ever drawn.
Written for little hearts, ages 3–7.
Simple, warm, and safe — never scolding, never fear-based. Stories retell scripture in language a child can understand and a parent can read aloud naturally.
Questions are invitations, not quizzes.
Discussion prompts are open-ended, and every day at least one invites your child to ponder how Jesus loves them personally.
AI retells — it does not originate doctrine.
Every story is drawn from the week's scripture chapters and the words of latter-day prophets. When a passage isn't a story (a psalm, a law), the lesson says so plainly and still shows how it reveals Christ.
Nothing publishes automatically.
A person reviews and approves every week. The system physically blocks publishing until every story, illustration, coloring page, audio narration, and printable exists and has been checked.
The four-question test
Borrowed from Teaching in the Savior's Way. Before any lesson is approved, it has to pass all four:
- Is it founded on the scriptures and the words of latter-day prophets?
- Does it help a family build faith in Jesus Christ?
- Does it invite the Spirit, rather than substitute for Him?
- Does it point the family to the Savior — not just to facts about a story?
If the answer to any of these is no, the lesson is rewritten or edited by hand before it ships.
What AI does — and what people do
AI drafts
- First drafts of stories and discussion questions
- Watercolor illustrations and coloring pages
- The read-aloud audio narration
- Assembling it all into books and printables
People decide
- The doctrine, the sources, and the rulebook itself
- Review of every word and every image
- The decision to publish each week — always a person
- Corrections, anytime, based on your feedback
The tools we use, honestly
We believe you deserve to know exactly what's under the hood. The writing is drafted with Claude (made by Anthropic). Illustrations and coloring pages are drawn with OpenAI's image generation, anchored to a fixed set of character portraits so Moses looks like the same Moses in every story. The audio narration is voiced with OpenAI's text-to-speech.
AI can make mistakes — that is exactly why the review step exists, and why it will never be removed. If anything in a lesson ever seems off to you, the feedback button inside the app comes straight to us, and we fix it.
Questions? We'd love to hear from you on our support page.