Honest answers about how PSR scores sermons, what we do with your data, and where the rubric comes from.
No. Biblical Accuracy penalizes misquoting (chapter/verse errors, misattributed passages), not theological positions. Calvinist, Arminian, dispensational, covenantal — same score for the same accuracy.
No. Audio is stored in your account, not sent to model training.
Only you. No leaderboards, no public profiles.
It's not a verdict, it's a measurement. The score quantifies what you'd hear if you listened back to yourself with a stopwatch and a Bible. The judgment is still yours.
Every sermon shows the transcript and the specific evidence behind each category, so you can see exactly what it flagged and why.
No. The pipeline classifies your sermon as expository, topical, or survey, then normalizes Time in the Word and Passage Focus accordingly. A topical sermon isn't penalized for not being expository, and a survey through Romans 1–8 isn't penalized for covering broad ground. The rubric measures execution within your style, not which style you chose.
Yes. Any sermon you uploaded can be deleted from your dashboard, which removes the audio file, transcript, and score data from our system. There's no archive or shadow copy retained for training or analytics.
Only if you choose to share. Scores are tied to your account and are not visible to anyone else by default. There's no church-level dashboard, no presbytery view, no way for a third party to look you up. If you want to share a result, you do it manually — screenshot, link, conversation. Nothing is pushed.
The 8 categories and their weights were built from how preaching is actually evaluated in seminary homiletics courses and pastoral mentorship — fidelity to the text, structure, clarity, application, delivery. The weights skew heavily toward biblical handling (25% accuracy + 20% time in the Word + 10% passage focus = 55% of the score) because that's what most expository traditions consider primary. The methodology is documented and we're open about how each category is computed.
The transcript is shown alongside the score, so you can see exactly what was heard. Pass 1 (Biblical Accuracy) operates on the transcript and uses context — surrounding words, the passage being preached, the actual content of the verse — to recover from common transcription errors. Edge cases happen; that's why nothing is opaque. Every category points to the evidence behind it so you can verify or dispute.