Announcements

What's New in Lightspeed

The latest features, tools, and improvements we've shipped to help lottery operators work faster and smarter.

2026
March 24, 2026 Tools Improvement

Heartbeat Evolves: 9 New Intelligence Sections for Shopify

Heartbeat adds hourly sales heatmaps, revenue by ticket price, buyer loyalty breakdowns, repeat buyer tracking, payment methods, fulfillment status, risk monitoring, and sales channel insights — all computed live from the Shopify API.

March 20, 2026 AI Feature

Ask Lightspeed Gets Even Smarter

Ask Lightspeed can now search the web for real-time, verified answers with source links — plus inline charts, smarter follow-up suggestions, and faster responses with prompt caching.

March 20, 2026 AI Tools

Insights Engine Gets a Major Upgrade

The Insights Engine now understands charitable lotteries like you do — with lottery-aware sales analysis, automatic Top 10 Buyers, 5x more data coverage, and a smarter, more encouraging tone.

March 19, 2026 Tools Feature

Introducing Heartbeat: Live Raffle Sales Monitoring

A real-time operations dashboard with live sales velocity, stock-ticker sparklines, surge detection, payment breakdowns, and persistent 7-day trend history that survives restarts.

March 18, 2026 Integrations AI

Shopify Analytics: Order Lookup & Sales Insights in Ask Lightspeed

Ask Lightspeed can now look up Shopify orders, search customers, and summarize your sales data — plus a full analytics dashboard with trends, top products, and regional breakdowns.

March 18, 2026 AI Tools

Introducing the Compliance Assistant

A dedicated AI agent for lottery and raffle regulatory guidance — grounded in official source material, cited to the legislation, starting with Ontario and expanding across Canada and the USA.

March 17, 2026 AI Platform

Lightspeed AI Is Now Agentic

Lightspeed AI doesn't just answer questions anymore — it takes action. Multi-step workflows, cross-tool orchestration, and autonomous task completion are here.

March 16, 2026 Feature Tools

Introducing Home Base: A Team Bulletin Board Built Into Lightspeed

Rich text posts, emoji reactions, threaded comments, custom categories, link previews, draft posts, drag-to-reorder pins, and admin analytics — all without leaving Lightspeed.

March 15, 2026 Tools Feature

Introducing Runway: A Visual Content Calendar for Your Team

Plan your content on a full calendar with month and week views, drag-and-drop rescheduling, recurring events, color-coded categories, and instant search.

March 14, 2026 Tools AI

Lightspeed Gets Smarter: Draft Assistant Redesign, Semantic Search & 9 Intelligence Features

The biggest update since launch. Type-specific Draft panels, multi-variant generation, campaign sequences, semantic KB search, feedback analytics, content calendar, and platform-wide intelligence upgrades.

March 12, 2026 AI

Voice Fingerprinting, Conversation Memory & Cross-Tool Awareness

Lightspeed now learns your organization's voice, remembers past conversations across your team, and connects your workflow between every tool.

March 9, 2026 Feature

Thread Replies in Response Assistant

Paste a full email thread and get a reply that understands the entire conversation — no repeated context, no awkward restarts.

February 28, 2026 AI

Model Selector for Ask Lightspeed

Choose between Opus 4.6, Sonnet 4.6, and Haiku 4.5 directly in Ask Lightspeed — match the right model to every task.

February 23, 2026 Platform

5-Step Onboarding Wizard

A guided setup experience that walks new organizations through configuration in five simple steps, replacing the old single-field modal.

February 17, 2026 Tools

Ask Lightspeed Major Upgrade

Six powerful new capabilities including persistent conversations, follow-up refinements, source citations, teach mode, and team collaboration.

February 15, 2026 Tools

Rules of Play Generator

A dedicated tool for charitable lottery operators to generate, customize, and maintain compliant Rules of Play documents with AI assistance.

February 15, 2026 AI

Real-Time Streaming Responses

AI responses now stream in real time across all Lightspeed tools, so you see results as they're generated instead of waiting for the full response.

February 15, 2026 AI

Multilingual Support: French & Spanish

Lightspeed now generates AI responses in English, French, and Spanish with a simple language toggle — no translation tools needed.

February 13, 2026 Tools

Draft Assistant Writing Studio

A completely redesigned two-column writing experience that gives you more space to compose, edit, and refine marketing and communications content.

February 10, 2026 AI

Agent Instructions & Quick Chips

Customize how Lightspeed's AI responds with freeform instructions and one-click quick chips for common adjustments like tone, length, and format.

February 10, 2026 Platform

Microsoft 365 Sign-In

Sign in to Lightspeed with your Microsoft 365 or Outlook account alongside existing Google authentication.

January 2026
January 27, 2026 AI

The Knowledge Base & Feedback Loop

The system that makes Lightspeed get smarter over time — a curated knowledge repository paired with a thumbs-up/down feedback loop that improves every response.

January 21, 2026 Tools

Deep Dive: Ask Lightspeed

Your organization's always-available AI assistant for operational questions, donor emails, sponsorship strategies, and everything that doesn't fit a template.

January 17, 2026 Tools

Deep Dive: The Draft Assistant

Create polished marketing emails, media releases, social media posts, and campaign content in minutes — all grounded in your organization's voice.

January 11, 2026 Tools

Deep Dive: The Response Assistant

Lightspeed's flagship tool for generating accurate, knowledge-base-grounded customer service responses in seconds instead of minutes.

January 7, 2026 Platform

Introducing Lightspeed

AI-powered tools built specifically for charitable lottery operators — making customer service, marketing, and operations dramatically faster and more consistent.