Can AI get out of the way?
Sojourn is a research product with real users. The question we are testing is whether AI can put people in front of scripture and then fade away. It helps us be honest with our users and ourselves.
- ▪Sojourn is a research product with real users.
- ▪The question we are testing is whether AI can put people in front of scripture and then fade away.
- ▪It helps us be honest with our users and ourselves.
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Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | Sojourn |
| Canonical URL | https://trysojourn.app/redemptive-ai/ |
| Publication time | Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:42:58 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-29T12:51:21.784Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-29T12:51:21.784Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | None |
| Cluster logic | Not yet clustered, or no peer story found in the clustering window. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
Redemptive AI Can AI get out of the way? Sojourn is a research product with real users. The question we are testing is whether AI can put people in front of scripture and then fade away. This page is where we keep score. It helps us be honest with our users and ourselves. It guides us towards new experiments to try and how to evolve existing features. ¶What’s the premise? Most AI products are built to hold your attention. We think that is exactly backwards for this one. Scripture is the thing worth your time, and a good guide walks you to the door and stops talking. So we measure Sojourn by one thing: how much of the time in the app is spent reading the Bible. ¶How do we measure? Sojourn does not require your name, email, location or any other personally identifiable information.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Sojourn.
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