As a retired software developer/architect I wondered about the possibility of creating an external interface to Logos so a AI platform like Claude.ai or ChatGPT could be used to accelerate exegesis. Today I have to hand search multiple resources to find the information I need, sometimes I have to open the resources and then search inside them for what I'm looking for. Then I copy what I need into whatever component I'm trying to create, like a lesson plan to teach Sunday School for instance. Since the beginning of this year, I've built a custom exegetical script in Claude 3.7 Sonnet that automates the tasks of Old and New Testament Exegesis. But Logos is a bottleneck. An AI workflow tool that can pull in what the AI assistant needs to produce the output of each step of the exegetical process would be highly beneficial to the exegete. For example, producing teaching lesson plans and sermon manuscripts using such an interface to Logos. A user could give credentials to use the web interface or from a desktop instance of Logos to do this. The AI already has the ability to enforce copyright protection directives; and knows how to construct a effective search inputs for Logos. I did a informal poll with a discussion group of theologians, pastors, and laypersons if they could benefit from the time saved by having such a tool. Most said they would. We all know pastors don't usually have time to do exegetical work the way they should and end up just parroting subject matter from commentaries versus being able to use original language features of Logos create a more sermon or lesson plan that is faithful to the original text.
