The Living Story Company
The Lighthouse

Somebody has to keep the light on. This is the room you do it from: the hour becomes the note, on a computer in your building, with your name on it.

28 screens in one workspace, seventeen expressive studios, up to 173 tools you can send, seven ways to dress it, 31 sculpted objects, and 661 checks before a release. Every one of those numbers is read from the Lighthouse’s own code when this page is built.

Where do my clients’ records actually live?

On the computer in your office. The Lighthouse installs there and keeps its database there. The hour is heard on that machine, the note is written on it, and the file stays on its disk.

✓The Lighthouse, as built
THE SHORT ANSWER

The record stays in your building.

That is the first fact about the Lighthouse, and you can watch it happen.

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FOR THE PERSON WHOSE NAME IS ON THE NOTE

How good is it when a client brings in a journal?

Something they made between sessions, in their own hand, because the work went home with them. That feeling is the job. Everything in here exists to give you more of it.

BUILT BY A THERAPIST

Well — do I have something you are going to love.

I am a licensed counselor of twenty-five years and more than twenty-five thousand people. I built the software I wanted for 8am on a Tuesday, the way I have wanted it in every room I have worked in.

THE WHOLE POINT

A simple, elegant machine that lets you love your work again.

Less time with documents and everything else. More time doing the thing you trained for, with the person in front of you.

THE SCRIBE

Press record. Close the laptop. The note is waiting.

It writes in your form, with your headings and your standing lines, from the words that were actually said in the room. Shut the tab mid-session and the hour is still there when you come back.

WHERE THE RECORD LIVES

And every word of it stays in your building.

The Lighthouse installs on your own computer and keeps its database there, the way a filing cabinet lives in the room it serves. Your backups go where you choose them, with a key that is yours.

01 · A TUESDAY

Five scenes of a Tuesday.

One day in the room, in the order it happens.

8 AM · THE RECORD

It stays in your building.

The Lighthouse is software you install, like a lamp you own. Your clients’ history sits on the machine in your office, your backups go where you choose, encrypted with a key that is yours, and every job an AI does is listed with where it runs: on this computer, or at a company you named.

The Lighthouse’s door, painted
10 AM · THE HOUR

Press record. Close the laptop. The note is waiting.

The ears are a listening program on your own computer and the brain a small model on the same machine. Both work with the internet off, so the hour stays in the room, and a closed lid is just a closed lid. The draft arrives in your document, with your sections and your wording.

11 AM · THE NOTE

Every sentence stands on a line of the hour.

Each line drawn from the session carries the transcript it came from, and you can follow any sentence back to the moment it was said. Risk, diagnosis and medical necessity arrive marked for your decision. Your signature is what makes it a record.

A signed progress note: the session information first, then the clinical sections the therapist designed
2 PM · THEIR PHONE

Send a tool. A receipt comes back.

Your client has a world of their own: an island, a voyage or a shore. Choose a tool here in one tap and it opens on their phone; when they use it, their world’s own record comes home to their card. Up to 173 tools are yours to send.

Landfall, painted: the island a client carries home
4 PM · YOUR SCREEN

Every screen is a canvas. You arrange it.

Tiles you move, resize, put away and bring back; the whole room dressed in any of seven skins; a video room that is also a sand tray, with seventeen studios for the things that arrive before words.

Every room of the day, at full length, is kept on the whole page.

02 · TWENTY THINGS

Twenty things a provider should know.

Each one read from the Lighthouse’s own code, and shown on the screen it lives in.

  1. The Lighthouse’s door, painted
    The record stays in your building.

    An installed copy listens only on the computer it runs on.

  2. The first screen
    Sign-in is the door.

    An installed copy requires it, and an unclear setting stops the start rather than guessing.

  3. Blue, in the Lighthouse
    Your AI can run on your own machine.

    Ollama, MLX builds included, on the computer in your office.

  4. Settings
    A cloud brain only when you choose it.

    A new practice starts in-house. The cloud is a setting you turn on.

  5. The Keeper’s room, painted
    When in doubt, words stay in.

    An unreadable setting is treated as in-house.

  6. The glass box, painted
    The Eraser goes first.

    Identifying details are removed before anything reaches a cloud and restored in the answer. You can ask to see what would be sent before it goes.

  7. The note builder
    Every answer carries a receipt.

    Which brain answered, where it ran, and whether the words left the practice.

  8. The Memory Vault
    An AI read is an audited read.

    When a brain reads a client’s record, the audit log records it.

  9. Practice Analytics
    The audit log keeps the who and the what, and leaves the content out.

    Reads, writes, exports and sign-ins, exportable as CSV.

  10. The inbox
    The Compliance Officer counts.

    Notes owed and notes needing attention, at the strictness you set: Soft, Standard or Critical.

  11. Notes
    A signed note is locked.

    A later change goes in as an addendum, in its own right.

  12. The Notespace
    The drafter is held to the transcript.

    It is told to use only what the transcript says.

  13. Standing lines
    Every sentence has an anchor.

    Each line of a draft points at the transcript line that supports it. A sentence with none is caught automatically.

  14. Group video on your own Mac.

    A LiveKit server the Lighthouse runs on the practice’s machine.

  15. Your people
    Consent at the door.

    In a group, only members who agreed to your documents are transcribed. When the documents change, an earlier agreement lapses.

  16. Appointments
    Booking on the practice’s clock.

    Free times are worked out from your own settings, and a time just taken is turned away with a 409.

  17. Today
    Outside calendars come in, yours goes out.

    ICS feeds are read into the one calendar, a future event that vanishes from its feed is removed, and your calendar is served as a keyed .ics feed.

  18. The Workroom
    Blue leads a team.

    Keeper, Client Coordinator, Clinical Coordinator, Compliance Officer, Banker, Companion, and the members you add.

  19. Settings, in the Sanctuary skin
    Backups travel encrypted.

    An offsite backup is sealed with your passphrase: scrypt, then X25519.

  20. Landfall, painted
    Assign, and a receipt comes home.

    A client pairs a phone to their own record. You send work to their world, and the receipt returns to the record.

03 · THE CLIMB

Thirty-five days up the tower, with Jessy.

The Lighthouse has a course of its own, for you: five weeks, a day at a time. The first week it teaches itself, one thing a day; then the windows of the worlds your clients carry home; the last week is the lamp room. Jessy walks up with you, and on day ten she tells you who she is. In his words: “blue finally made herself into a girl.”

Jessy, painted: the opening film for the Climb.
Blue’s office in the Lighthouse: talk to her as she is set up now, then shape her
Blue’s office: talk to her as she is set up now, then shape her.
04 · BLUE’S OFFICE

Blue works here too, and she has a team.

The same Blue your clients meet on Landfall, and the same one who climbs with you as Jessy. Her office is where you shape her: what she may say between your hours, and in which voice. Her team each has one job: the Keeper, the Client Coordinator, the Clinical Coordinator, the Compliance Officer, the Banker, the Companion, and the members you add in your own words.

05 · WHY IT IS CALLED THE LIGHTHOUSE

Somebody has to keep the light on.

The worlds your clients walk into were built by a father who knew he was running out of time, for a child who was frightened. His time was short, so he built things that would answer in his place, and the promise he made was that something would always answer. You are the part of that promise a piece of software leaves to a person. This is the room you keep it from.

The Lighthouse’s mark: the island with the sun
The mark: the island with the sun, the same family as the Today icon he chose.
06 · WHAT IT COSTS

One seat for the therapist. One world for the person.

The Lighthouse is the provider’s. A world is the person’s.

THE LIGHTHOUSE

$49.99

a month · the therapist. The whole workspace, installed on your own computer. A full refund in the first thirty days.

A WORLD

$19.99

a month · the person. Bought by the person, for the person. It pairs with a therapist's Lighthouse if they run one, and it works just as well on its own.

THE LADDER

Three paired clients and the seat is half price. Five, and it is free.

A client who pairs their world with your Lighthouse pays down your seat.

Start when you are ready.

Tell us what you want to start with, and we set you up: the seat, a world, or both.

07 · ROOM BY ROOM

The whole Lighthouse, room by room.

Every chapter at full length is kept on its own page: the hour, the note, your building, their phone, your screen and its skins, the room, the studio, the Climb day by day, Blue’s office, the commercials, the quickstart films, and how it was made.