Your Ministry Profile
Last updated 2026-03-19
What is your Ministry Profile?
Your Ministry Profile is a persistent record of your theological identity, ministry context, preaching approach, and congregation — built once during onboarding and refined over time. Every assistant in Theostack reads this profile before responding, so answers are calibrated to your tradition, your people, and your role.
Building your profile
Phase 1: The essentials (onboarding)
When you first sign in, Theostack walks you through a 12-step conversational onboarding. You share your name, role, theological tradition, preaching style, congregation demographics, and a few influences. This takes about five minutes.
After Phase 1, you have full access to the app. Your profile is already working — every assistant knows who you are.
Phase 2: Going deeper
After a few conversations, Theostack will invite you to go deeper. Phase 2 fills in richer detail: your study workflow, hermeneutical method, formative books, felt needs of your congregation, and more.
Phase 2 is completed through conversation with the Profile Builder assistant — just talk naturally, and it updates your profile automatically.
You can access the Profile Builder at any time from your profile settings page or by following the "Go Deeper" banner that appears in the app.
Managing your profile
Go to Settings → Ministry Profile to:
- View your AI-generated profile summary
- See which profile sections are complete, partial, or empty
- Edit any field directly
- Browse your profile version history and restore a previous version
Editing manually
Expand any section in the edit view to update individual fields. Each section saves independently. Theostack regenerates your AI summary after each save.
Version history
Every time your profile changes — through onboarding, a Profile Builder conversation, or a manual edit — Theostack saves a version. You can view and restore any previous version from Settings → Ministry Profile → Version History.
AI-suggested updates
Theostack periodically analyzes your recent conversations and suggests profile updates it noticed — for example, if you frequently mention a particular demographic group or theological theme that isn't yet in your profile.
Suggestions appear at the top of your profile settings page. You can accept them as-is, edit the value before accepting, or dismiss them.
Conversation Partner mode
Conversation Partner mode changes how assistants engage with you. Instead of providing direct answers, they ask probing questions, surface counterarguments, and help you think through an issue before arriving at a conclusion.
Toggle this on or off from your profile settings page. It applies across all assistants.
Conversation Partner mode is useful for sermon preparation and theological reflection, but you may want to turn it off when you need quick factual lookups.
Privacy
Your Ministry Profile is private to your account. It is used only to personalize your assistant interactions within Theostack and is never shared with other users or used to train AI models. See Privacy & Data for details.