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Connect an AI app

Ask Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or Grok about your ward.

Where
Settings → Assistant → AI apps

If you use Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or Grok, you can connect it to 1stHour and ask about your ward in the app itself: "Who is still open to speak in November?" or "What's on Sunday's program?" It reads 1stHour as you, sees only what you see, and changes nothing.

For now only the bishopric can connect, and only those four apps. AI apps come with the Assistant: a few wards have them to start. If yours does, a member of the bishopric sees AI apps in the Assistant group of Settings.

1. Turn on AI apps

2 min · Bishopric only

SettingsAssistantAI apps

Someone in the bishopric turns AI apps on once for the ward, by agreeing to what it means.

  1. Flip Let the bishopric connect AI apps.
  2. Before you turn it on lists what you're agreeing to. Read it.
  3. Tap I agree. Turn on AI apps for your ward. Not now leaves it off.

The page then shows who agreed and when. Turning it on sends nothing to anyone.

Settings → Assistant shows whether AI apps are on and how many apps are connected. Tap AI apps there to come to this page.

AI apps work only while the Assistant is on. Turn on Use the assistant first. Turning the Assistant off turns AI apps off too, and ends every connection. Turning the Assistant back on leaves AI apps off until someone in the bishopric agrees and turns them on again. Then each person connects their app again.

Heads up

What you agree to. When you ask your AI app something, the answer comes from your ward's records: Sundays, speakers' names, the program, the bulletin, your assignments and activities. That goes to the app under its own terms, not 1stHour's.

To turn it off, flip the same switch. Every connection in your ward ends at once. If you turn it back on later, each person connects their app again.

2. Connect your AI app

3 min · Bishopric only

SettingsAssistantAI apps

Each member of the bishopric connects their own app, with their own sign-in.

  1. Under Connect your AI app, tap Copy beside the address.
  2. In your AI app, add a custom connector. Some apps call it an MCP server.
  3. Paste the address and add it.
  4. The app opens 1stHour. Sign in if it asks.
  5. Check the app and ward it names, then tap Allow and the app's name. Cancel connects nothing.

You're back in your app, connected. Your connection shows under Your connections.

Note

If you belong to more than one ward, the app connects to the ward you're signed in to.

Note

Where custom connectors are, and which plans have them, is up to each app. If yours has none, its own help says what it offers.

3. What an AI app can read

It reads only what your own screens show you, through the same checks:

  • the coming Sundays, each speaker slot, who is in it and their status
  • a Sunday's program, as the conductor reads it
  • the bulletin's announcements
  • your own assignments
  • the ward's activity requests, when your ward uses Activities

It never reads appointments, callings in motion, releases, recommendations, notes on people or why someone declined. It can't save, send or publish anything.

4. Disconnect an app

Bishopric only

SettingsAssistantAI apps

  1. Under Your connections, tap Disconnect.
  2. Tap Disconnect again to confirm.

The app stops reading your ward at once. To use it again, connect it again from the app. A connection counts as a device you're signed in on, so Sign out others in Settings ends it too.

5. See what AI apps asked

Bishopric only

SettingsAssistantAI apps

What AI apps asked lists each time an app looked something up, for 90 days: which app, who, and whether it worked. A line under each says what the app asked for and what 1stHour sent, such as "Asked for the next 4 Sundays. Sent 4 Sundays, 6 speakers named." The same lookup made several times in a row shows once, with how many times. Only the bishopric sees it.

Your conversation with the app isn't here. The app keeps it and sends 1stHour only the lookup. The record keeps counts, never your ward's records themselves.