Open a Prepared Assessment Pack
The pastor selects a communion, baptism, or membership pack that already contains stored ASL question videos, alternate clarifications, and the doctrinal rubric to apply.
Review Mockup
AI Signer Assessment Flow
This corrected mockup shows the intended product direction: the app itself asks questions in ASL through a saved signer avatar, watches the covenant child or adult sign back, translates the response, and builds a doctrine-aware assessment for communion, baptism, or membership.
Scenario
A pastor opens the communion assessment with a covenant child who knows ASL. The app plays stored signer clips, reads the child's signed responses, and returns an assessment tied to RPCNA doctrine.
Workflow
AI-Led Interview Journey
The point of this flow is to let the communicant answer directly through sign language, while the church receives a structured assessment grounded in confession, catechism, and testimony.
Play Cached ASL Signer Clips
The app presents each question through an AI-generated signer avatar clip that has already been rendered and saved, so the same approved prompt can be reused every time.
Capture the Communicant's Signed Response
A camera records the covenant child or adult signing back, while OpenAI vision tracks hand shape, movement, body language, and pace to form a translation candidate.
Map the Response to Doctrine
The translated answer is grouped under Christ, sin, faith, repentance, sacrament understanding, and vow readiness so the system can assess what was actually communicated.
Produce an Assessment for Session
The app returns a recommendation with linked evidence clips, translated responses, and follow-up flags so the church can decide whether admission, baptism, or membership is appropriate.
Screen One
Launch the AI Assessment
The first screen is where the pastor chooses the prepared interview pack and confirms the communication mode before the app begins asking questions on its own.
Supported Communicant AssessmentAI signer pack selected
Samuel M.
- Primary communication: ASL
- Assessment mode: communion admission
- Pastor supervising: Rev. James K.
- Guardian present: mother
Lord's Supper Readiness
- 18 saved signer clips
- 4 stored clarification clips
- 3 sacrament-specific follow-up clips
- 1 doctrine rubric bound to the pack
Human-like ASL avatar prompts have already been rendered and approved, so the app reuses them instead of generating a new question video during the interview.
- Westminster Confession of Faith chapter 28 on baptism and chapter 29 on the Lord's Supper
- Westminster Larger Catechism on faith, repentance, sacraments, and self-examination
- Westminster Shorter Catechism on God, sin, Christ, salvation, church membership, and the sacraments
- RPCNA testimony, forms, and membership-vow context for a credible profession
Screen Two
Avatar Asks and Vision Interprets
The live screen is the center of the product: the signer avatar asks a question, the communicant signs back, and the app translates and scores the answer in real time.
Question 12 of 18Communion meaning and worthy use
ASL question clipWhy do Christians take the bread and cup?
Live response captureCommunicant signing to camera
Prompt clip
Vision gloss
Plain-language translation
Confidence + flag
- Christ's death connected to the Supper
- Believer participation appears understood
- Self-trust rejected in favor of faith in Christ
- Self-examination still needs one direct follow-up
Screen Three
Assessment Output for Session
Once the exchange is complete, the app should return a doctrine-based conclusion with the linked evidence that supports it.
AI Assessment SummaryCommunion recommendation with evidence
Likely ready for communion, with one follow-up on self-examination
The system judges that the candidate communicated the core Gospel and sacramental meaning with enough clarity for Session review, while flagging one final question on worthy receiving.
Christ understoodResponses consistently identify Jesus as Savior, Son of God, crucified, and risen.
Sin and forgiveness understoodThe candidate communicates wrongdoing, sorrow, and the need for Christ's forgiveness.
Faith and repentance expressedSigned responses show trust in Jesus and desire to follow him with God's help.
Sacrament meaning understoodThe bread and cup are connected to Christ's death, but one follow-up on worthy participation is still recommended.
Membership-vow readinessThe candidate appears able to affirm the substance of profession and submission, with support for signed communication.
- 18 prompt clips linked to their exact doctrinal category
- 12 response clips stored with translation snapshots
- 4 low-confidence moments marked for human review
- Export ready for Session minutes and pastoral follow-up
Component Library
What the Product Now Needs to Prove
These are the components the app needs if it is going to function as an AI assessment system rather than a manual note-taking interface.
Assessment Pack Selector
Lets the church choose a communion, baptism, or membership workflow with a saved ASL clip library and the exact doctrinal rubric attached to it.
Signer Avatar Playback Panel
Shows the AI signer asking the question in ASL, replaying the same approved clip, or switching to a stored clarification version without inventing a new prompt live.
Candidate Response Capture
Records the covenant child or adult signing back so the system can preserve the response as evidence and re-run interpretation if needed.
Vision Translation Stream
Turns signed and gestural communication into gloss, plain-language translation, confidence, and follow-up warnings for unclear or incomplete doctrinal answers.
Doctrine Mapping Engine
Scores each translated response against RPCNA, confession, catechism, sacrament, and vow categories instead of leaving the result as a vague accessibility summary.
Session Decision Workspace
Presents the recommendation, linked clips, and supporting rationale so elders can review what the AI saw before taking church action.