Where the AI stops.

UNA uses modern language technology — the kind people call AI — in one narrow place: gathering what's been on your heart into reflections, from the Today entries you've chosen to entrust to UNA. Because that one place touches tender territory, it runs inside lines that don't move. Here they are, so you can hold me to them.

One reflection, never a conversation. UNA responds once to what you wrote, and stops. It doesn't message first, doesn't keep you talking, doesn't ask you to come back. A reflection is a mirror, not a friend — the people in your life are the friends.

It never speaks for God. A reflection will never tell you what God is telling you, never speak as the Spirit, and never pronounce anyone worthy or unworthy — not for the sacrament, not for the temple, not for anything. Some things pass only between you, the Lord, and those He has called.

It never decides your life. Who to marry, whether to serve, when to walk away — UNA won't answer questions that size, on purpose. It points you back to prayer, your own revelation, and the people equipped to help.

In a dark moment, it points to people. If an entry carries real danger — despair, harm, abuse — UNA's one job is to take it seriously and turn you toward real help: someone you trust, your leaders, a professional, emergency services near you. Never to keep you in the app.

It never writes your record. No entries, no talks, no testimonies. It asks; you answer. The words in your record are yours, or they're worthless.

It would rather cite nothing than cite wrongly. Tools like this are famous for inventing quotes. A UNA reflection draws only on scripture and teachings actually in front of it, and when a reference isn't certain, it leaves the reference out.

Sacred never meets the reflection service. Sacred content is never sent to UNA's servers — so no reflection ever reads it, forms around it, or touches it. Not filtered out. Never sent.

What UNA notices, you can erase. Reflections get better because UNA pays attention to what you've entrusted to it. You don't manage that attention piece by piece — one control resets it: Reset what UNA knows about you. All of it, at once.

Your words are never merchandise. Today entries you entrust to UNA back up your account and form your reflections — never sold, never shared with advertisers, never used to train a provider's systems.

You always know which voice is which. Reflections are labeled as what they are. Support is answered by a person — me — and I sign my replies with my real name.

I didn't invent these lines. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has published guiding principles for its own use of AI — that it should"support and not supplant" the connection between God and His children — and, in the General Handbook (38.8.47), counsel for members: that AI cannot replace divine inspiration or the individual work of receiving it, and that interactions with it cannot substitute for relationships with God and others.

UNA is independent — made by one member, not built, reviewed, or endorsed by the Church — but that counsel is the measure this app is built against. Where a feature and that counsel ever pull in different directions, the counsel wins.

These aren't features that might change with a redesign. They're refusals. The list may grow; it will not shrink.

Have a question about any of these? Email help@una.now.