Your Ministry Profile
Last updated 2026-04-02
What is your Ministry Profile?
Your Ministry Profile is a persistent record of your theological identity, ministry context, teaching 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 asks two quick questions: your ministry role and your theological tradition. Selecting these two things takes about ten seconds and gives every assistant a working foundation immediately.
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, you can deepen your profile through the Profile Builder assistant. Phase 2 fills in richer detail: your study workflow, hermeneutical method, formative books, felt needs of your congregation, and more.
Access the Profile Builder at any time from Settings → Ministry Profile.
Phase 2 is completed through conversation with the Profile Builder — just talk naturally, and it updates your profile automatically.
Don't teach or preach regularly? If your ministry context doesn't involve regular teaching or preaching, you can opt out of the teaching section entirely via the Profile Builder. This keeps your profile focused on what's relevant to your work.
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, a manual edit, or an AI-suggested update — 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 automatically applies profile updates it notices — for example, if you frequently reference a particular demographic group or theological theme that isn't yet captured in your profile.
These updates happen in the background without interrupting your workflow. Every auto-applied change is recorded in your version history, so you can review or roll back anything at any time from Settings → Ministry Profile → Version History.
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 or from the assistant header during a conversation. 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.