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.

01 · 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.

The Lighthouse

Somebody has to keep the light on.
This is the room you do it from.

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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.

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

One question, answered the same way every time.

Ask it of any software you are thinking about. The answer here is a fact about where the file is, and you can watch it happen.

02 · THE HOUR

The hour you just sat in becomes the note.

Press record when they sit down. The audio goes to a program running on your machine, the words come back, and a draft arrives in your document — the one you designed, with your sections and your wording. The transcript and the audio are written to disk before the recorder is even told to stop, so a closed lid is just a closed lid.

The ears are a listening program on your own computer, and the brain is a small language model on the same machine. Both work with the internet off, and the hour stays in the room. If you want a larger brain in the cloud for one job, you bring your own key and choose that job yourself.

Or paste what you already have — a transcript, a summary from your calendar — and the same note comes back. XAI Notespace is one home for the hour: record · paste · your note. Record sits in the header of every screen, so the hour starts from wherever you are.

The day, recorded: Dashboard, the hour arriving in the XAI Notespace, the note signed.
03 · WHAT MAKES IT TRUSTWORTHY

Every sentence stands on a line of the hour.

A note is only as good as what it can point at. 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 stay yours: anything drafted in that territory arrives marked for your decision, and your signature is the thing that makes it a record.

A signed progress note, with the session information and the clinical sections the therapist designed
My Notes — a signed progress note: the session information first, then the clinical sections you designed.
WHAT THE FIELD MEASURED

31% of an AI scribe’s notes held a hallucination. 20% of the physicians’ own did.

A peer-reviewed evaluation of an AI ambient scribe in outpatient medicine, 97 recorded encounters, each note scored by reviewers on a validated rubric (Palm et al., 2025, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence). The Lighthouse is built to that problem: every sentence its model drafts carries the lines of the hour it came from, so you can follow any sentence back to its moment, and check it, before you sign; the risk line and the diagnosis stay yours, your own standing lines, written in after the model has finished.

Palm E, Manikantan A, Mahal H, Belwadi SS, Pepin ME. Assessing the quality of AI-generated clinical notes: validated evaluation of a large language model ambient scribe. Front. Artif. Intell. 2025;8:1691499.

04 · UP CLOSE

The parts, at the size you would see them.

A whole workspace shrinks on a page. These are the same screens, cut at full size, so you can read what a therapist reads.

The note, as its page. The session information first, then the clinical sections you designed; Sign stands at the foot of the page, where a signature goes.
The note, as its page. The session information first, then the clinical sections you designed; Sign stands at the foot of the page, where a signature goes.
Record the hour. The audio goes to a program on your own computer, and the words come back in your form.
Record the hour. The audio goes to a program on your own computer, and the words come back in your form.
Today’s tiles: what is waiting to be signed, who has sent something from their app, what needs you.
Today’s tiles: what is waiting to be signed, who has sent something from their app, what needs you.
“Customize this page.” Every screen is made of tiles you can move, resize, put away and bring back.
“Customize this page.” Every screen is made of tiles you can move, resize, put away and bring back.
Story Planner: choose the client, choose the tool, say what it is for, and it lands on their phone.
Story Planner: choose the client, choose the tool, say what it is for, and it lands on their phone.

Cut from the 4K stills of 2026-09-20 at full size; re-cut from the October photographs when they land.

The glass box: a painted island inside a glass cube, the paint pouring out, beside a sealed black cube
The glass box: you can see in, you choose where it runs, and the record stays yours.
05 · YOUR BUILDING, YOUR AI

In your building. Your AI runs there too.

The Lighthouse is software you install, like a lamp you own. Your clients’ history sits on the machine in your office, your backups go to the places you choose, encrypted with a key that is yours.

The ears and the brain that write your notes run on that same machine, free, with everything staying in the room. If you want a cloud model, you bring your own key and it is used for the jobs you have allowed to leave, one task at a time, as a guest you invited. Settings lists every job and where it runs: on this computer, or at a company you named.

The help desk needs no model at all: it answers from the manual and from your machine’s own state.

LOCAL BY DEFAULT

Notes written on your own computer, without a cloud.

The hour is heard on that machine and the draft is written on it.

A CLOUD, IF YOU CHOOSE

Bring your own key.

A cloud model is used only for the jobs you allowed to leave.

YOUR CHOICE, EVERY TIME

Optional systems for everybody.

Local, cloud, or both. The record stays where it is.

06 · THE WEEK BETWEEN SESSIONS

Send a tool. A receipt comes back.

Your client has an app 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 app’s own record comes home to their card. Evidence that the work happened, rather than a question at the start of the next hour.

Up to 173 tools are yours to send — 97 for a Landfall client, 115 for a Copperheart client, 173 for a Driftwood client — the shared library, and each world’s own on top.

Story Planner — choose the client, choose the tool, say what it is for, and it lands on their phone
Story Planner — follow-through: the client chosen, the tool chosen, one line about why.
07 · THE CLIENT’S WAY IN

Four doors, in the order a client meets them.

They arrive through an intake that is a conversation, their work between sessions is planned as a story, their progress is a chart you can both read, and whatever their app sends comes to one inbox.

01 · INTERACTIVE INTAKE

Onboarding Hub

Their first screen, and yours for them.

02 · FOLLOW-THROUGH

Story Planner

Choose the client, choose the tool, say what it is for — it lands on their phone.

03 · CLIENT TRAJECTORIES

Progress Charts

A person’s trajectory, drawn from what came home.

04 · WHAT NEEDS YOU

My Inbox

What their app sent, beside everything else that needs you.

Onboarding Hub — the intake you build for a new client, and who has sent theirs back
Onboarding Hub — interactive intake: the first of the four doors, as you build it for them.
08 · YOUR SCREEN, YOUR WAY

Every screen is a canvas. You arrange it.

Every page in the Lighthouse is made of tiles you can move, resize, put away and bring back. Your Today starts with four — the next hour, what needs you, your day, and a moment for you — and becomes what you put on it; your client’s page is the tiles you look at first. A page you have not arranged yet lays itself out once, and from then on it is yours.

And the whole room can be dressed seven ways. The workspace keeps its shape, its words and its place; a skin changes its warmth and the colour it is drawn in. The tiles that mean something — today, unsigned, to confirm — hold their colours in every one, so nobody has to re-learn their own screen.

A screen in its canvas: the tiles lifted, one being moved, the rest waiting
A screen in its canvas: the tiles lifted, one being moved, the rest waiting.
It changes in one press — see it move.
The workspace wearing the Lighthouse skin
Lighthouse — Bright, clean glass — the default
The workspace wearing the Harbor Glass skin
Harbor Glass — Frosted glass over soft colour
The workspace wearing the Classic skin
Classic — No glass, a docked rail — the screen holds still
The workspace wearing the Sanctuary skin
Sanctuary — Warm paper, a serif, a quieter room
The workspace wearing the Copper & Candlelight skin
Copper & Candlelight — Lamplit paper and copper
The workspace wearing the Landfall Island skin
Landfall Island — Sand, palm and turquoise water
The workspace wearing the Driftwood Workshop skin
Driftwood Workshop — Sea-light, slate and weathered wood

Seven skins, read from the product’s own list; each one photographed from the running software, and each opens full size.

09 · THE ROOM

A video room that is also a sand tray.

Telehealth with the tools inside it. Build something in the tray and it appears on their screen as you build it, because the state really crosses the wire. The transcript arrives live beside the room, and the note is drafted the moment the session ends.

Your client opens a link. That is the whole of it — in whatever browser is already on the phone in their hand.

Virtual Therapy Room, open and waiting: the shared studios listed down the side, the transcript panel ready.
A live session — the client on camera, the therapist in the corner, and the timeline recording that the client joined and the shared studios connected
Faces — the call itself, connected and shared
The same session with the Sand Tray Studio open: four figures standing on the sand, the sculpting tools beneath, and the shelf of ninety-nine along the bottom
The tray, in the same call — co-present, so they build it with you
10 · THE STUDIO

Seventeen rooms for the things that arrive before words.

Sand tray, clay, collage, whiteboard, play, EMDR, grounding. A child who has no sentence for it builds it in the sand instead; a couple at an impasse put the same board down between them. The clay is real three-dimensional clay, and the marks you make arrive on their screen as marks.

Expressive Studio — the seventeen studios down one side, a story builder open in the centre.
11 · 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 twenty-one watches at the windows, seven for each of the three worlds your clients carry home. The last week is the lamp room: your own system, your flame, your Companion — and the light.

“I’m Jessy. I’ll walk up the tower with you, one day at a time. Each window shows you one of the worlds your clients carry home.”— Jessy, on day one.

WEEK 1The foot of the stairs

The Lighthouse teaches itself — one thing a day.

DAY 1Her before, and her name
DAY 2Her tools, and the ears and the brain
DAY 3Why she does this work, and her check-in
DAY 4Between-hours moments
DAY 5The practice she wants — and its name and look
DAY 6The road ahead, and a client’s page
DAY 7A skill for between hours, and the pairing code

WEEK 2The Driftwood window

Seven watches from The Wayward Boy.

DAY 8Twice chosen, twice given back — the boy they called Driftwood
DAY 9Three days in the storm, counting — the first tool
DAY 10Free, and the worst he ever felt
DAY 11Skip, and “Driftwood” said with love — “only alive when the sun is up”
DAY 12Ten robots, ten needs — the Jumble
DAY 13The ninety-seven — every tool a portrait (Elias’s workshop)
DAY 14“They were for company in the dark” — and the castaways turn the tools back on the robots

WEEK 3The Landfall window

Seven watches from The Island and the Name.

DAY 15Arrival: quarantined, and the Intern
DAY 16“Everything kind on this island predates me” — the library
DAY 17The threat and the medicine are the same sentence — the acronyms
DAY 18The pod, and the thing he will not say
DAY 19The shore — “You can’t escape a place you can’t stop hugging”
DAY 20The Name — “It was never an acronym”
DAY 21The notebook and the light — “Help them go”

WEEK 4The Copperheart window

Seven watches from Who Threw Buddy Overboard?

DAY 22Someone redrew the course in the night — lovingly, almost
DAY 23Echo has known something for weeks — it takes a better question
DAY 24The figure in the glass — the face you meet and disown
DAY 25The smallest bunk, kept perfect for four years
DAY 26“If we never arrive” — “I AM the paperwork”
DAY 27“He goes by Lookout now”
DAY 28Landfall — “we arrived, and we chose the sea”

WEEK 5The Lamp Room

Your own system, your flame, Your Companion — and the light.

DAY 29Your own system
DAY 30How strict, and what color
DAY 31What may dim it
DAY 32Your Companion
DAY 33Blue — or Jessy
DAY 34Your entries
DAY 35The lamp — and her after

Jessy hosts the Climb.

She walks up the tower with you, a day at a time, and on day ten she tells you who she is. In his words: “blue finally made herself into a girl.” Blue, who runs every day of Landfall for your clients and leads your team in the Lighthouse, learned to be a person, and wanted to meet you as herself. The same Blue, two faces: the orb on your clients’ phones, the girl on your stairs.

Jessy
Jessy, as she stands on day one.
Jessy, painted: the opening film for the Climb.

The egg at the foot of the stairs.

It hatches on day nine, a quarter of the way up, as a surprise — and it is your Companion from then on. Your Companion: a self-care friend.

The Climb — the stairs, a day at a time, with the egg at their foot
The Climb — Learn it a night at a time: the stairs, a day at a time, with the egg at their foot.

The weeks, the days and the hatch day are read from the Lighthouse’s own climb.ts at every build (2026-11-08, commit 1527cb3a).

12 · UNDER THE BEAM

Fifteen paintings under the beam.

Painted for the Lighthouse in September and set moving: whales, hatchlings, an owl on the gallery rail, the island from the sea at night.

Whales under the beam
Hatchlings under the beam
The island from the sea at night
Barn owl on the gallery rail
Island fox watching the lamp
Dolphins in moonlit surf
Humpback tail against the moon
Pelicans roosting under the beam
Sea cave bioluminescence
Moonlit tide pools
Heron and fireflies
Albatross in the storm
Gulls rising at dawn
Seabirds asleep on the cliff
Manta in the cove from above
13 · 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. Blue’s Office is where you shape her: what she may say between your hours, and in which voice. Practice Builder is her team — your team · their jobs: name each one, give it your words, add your own. The Keeper answers from the manuals. And Your Companion is a self-care friend.

  • Blue’s Office — Shape Blue · her voice
  • Practice Builder — Your team · their jobs
  • The Keeper — Help · the manuals
  • Your Companion — A self-care friend
Blue’s Office — talk to Blue as she is set up now, then shape her
Blue’s Office — Shape Blue · her voice.
Co-sign queue — what waits on a supervisor's signature today
Co-sign queue — what waits on a supervisor’s signature today, in one list.
14 · FOR YOUR PRACTICE

Your groups, and your supervisor.

Today the Lighthouse is one clinician’s whole practice. Your groups keep a roster of their own, each with its purpose in one line, and a group session is your room with your group in it. Notes that wait on a supervisor sit in the Co-sign queue — waiting on a supervisor — until the name on the licence signs them.

An organisation that wants its own tools commissions them from Wayward Robots, the studio that built these. Built for other providers →

15 · THE THREE WORLDS

One lighthouse. Three worlds.

What you send lands in an app built for the person you sent it to. An island for the thirty-five-day course, a voyage for recovery, a shore for couples and families — each one a place with its own weather, its own paintings and its own voice, carrying the work through the week between sessions.

Landfall — the island
Landfall
The island. A course walked a day at a time.
Copperheart — the voyage
Copperheart
The voyage. For the long road out of something.
Driftwood — the shore
Driftwood
The shore. For couples, and for families.
16 · EVERY ROOM, FINISHED

The whole practice, room by room.

The rooms a therapist works in every week, each one built to the size and the order the work asks for.

The Workroom
The Workroom. A wide stage beside the browser, for what you show a client in the hour.
The Memory Vault
The Memory Vault. Every note kept as the page it is, ready to read or print.
Practice Analytics
Practice Analytics. Four numbers across the top, and the chart on one straight line.
Money
Money. Four numbers across the top, and your rates first until they are set.
The Keeper
The Keeper. The help desk: ask in the large box, and it answers from the manuals and your machine’s own state.
Practice Builder
Practice Builder. Blue’s team in one row: name each one, give it your words, add your own.
Progress Charts
Progress Charts. One client picker, one time axis, the same straight line as Analytics.
My Inbox
My Inbox. Everything a client’s app sends, in one place, grouped by what it is.
The Note Builder
The Note Builder. Your note forms as small pages, each showing how full it is.
My Standing Lines
My Standing Lines. The lines you always write, on a page beside you while you type.
THE TOOLKIT

What you used lately, first.

A row of the tools you reached for recently, above the whole catalogue in its own order.

TODAY’S ARRANGE

A reset that names what it would take.

Before it resets the page, it says which of your notes and tiles would go, and offers to keep them.

THE NOTE

A sheet of paper, with Sign at its foot.

The note reads as the page it will print as, and the Memory Vault keeps every one the same way.

17 · IN VR

Your clients’ worlds, in a headset.

A tool you send from the Lighthouse can be done in the headset too, and its receipt comes home to the record the same way.

The Lighthouse’s door painting
The worlds your clients carry home, in a headset too.
18 · THE REST OF THE PRACTICE

Twenty-eight screens, and one workspace.

Appointments, the money, assessments scored and kept with the person they belong to, progress you can see, a supervisor’s co-sign queue, your own library of handouts. Every screen has an object of its own, sculpted and lit, so the place you are in is something you recognise rather than something you read.

XAI Notespace, sculpted
XAI Notespace
My Notes, sculpted
My Notes
Virtual Therapy Room, sculpted
Virtual Therapy Room
Expressive Studio, sculpted
Expressive Studio
Client Directory, sculpted
Client Directory
My Calendar, sculpted
My Calendar
Assessments, sculpted
Assessments
Co-sign queue, sculpted
Co-sign queue
Money, sculpted
Money
Handouts & Materials, sculpted
Handouts & Materials
Client Directory — everyone on your books, and what their app has sent since you last looked
Your people, and what has come home from their app.
My Calendar — the week, with each hour carrying the state of its note
The week, with the state of every note on it.
XAI Tool Library — every tool as an object on a lit plinth
The library, as a museum of objects.
Setting up the practice — rooms you step into one at a time
System Settings — appearance · brain · backups: each one a room you step into, here wearing the Sanctuary skin.
19 · GETTING STARTED

A download, a double-click, and your week, your notes, your practice.

Blue walks you through three short chapters — Your week · Your notes · Your practice — one question at a time, or every question on one page. You can stop halfway and come back to it. By the end the workspace is wearing your practice’s name, your colours and your own wording, and you have recorded a first hour to see it work.

Your own computer, your own copy.

20 · QUICKSTART

Eight rooms, thirty seconds each.

Jessy walks you through one room at a time: the onboarding hub, your calendar, Blue, the canvas, a tool sent home, the session room, the client card and the Climb. Filmed in the Lighthouse on 29 September. Tap one to play it with sound.

The onboarding hub. An interactive intake: they answer, and you read it before you ever meet them.
My calendar. The calendar you already keep, connected here; every appointment can carry a note.
Blue. Your front desk. Shape her in Blue’s Office and talk to her from anywhere.
The canvas. Press Arrange and every card becomes a widget you can move.
A tool sent home. Assign it and it lands on their side; you see when they have done it.
The session room. When the call ends, the note is already started.
The client card. Their profile, their progress and the homework you sent, on one card.
The Climb. The one room that is yours: Jessy’s watches and the lamp.
21 · 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 mark
The mark: the island with the sun, the same family as the Today icon he chose.
The Lighthouse, carved from storm rocks, its beam across the word and the tide breaking white.
22 · WHAT IT COSTS

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

The Lighthouse is the therapist’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.

23 · THE COMMERCIALS

How was your week? “Great.”

Thirty-second spots from the studio. A client says the week was great, and the Lighthouse brings what they practised in the six days between. Tap one to play it with sound.

Great week “Want something to talk about?”
Processing “Need better data between sessions?”
Good week? Yep. “Stop guessing. Start knowing.”
Empty-handed “Want something real to talk about?”
Transcendent “Need grounded, real-world insights?”
Great week, painted The same week in the studio’s paint.
Great week, take two A second cast.
Great week, take three A third cast.
24 · HOW IT WAS MADE

Built by the therapist who uses it.

Every screen in here was walked, by eye, by a licensed counselor of twenty-five years — and rebuilt where it did not hold up. 661 automated checks run before anything ships, and each of them exists because something was once wrong.

It is one half of a loop: the workspace you run your practice in, and three worlds that carry the work home between sessions.

The Lighthouse’s door painting
The door painting she passes every morning, made for the Lighthouse on 2026-09-30.

Open it, and see for yourself.

The showroom is the real software with a demonstration practice inside it. Press anything you like.